On the Jon Daniels firing

Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty ImagesOne of the advantages I have in running this blog is that, well, it is mine. I can do with it what I want. Yeah, I answer to the corporate overlords at Vox Media, but they pretty much ignore me and I pretty much ignore them and we both seem to be happy with that arrangement.

But, within certain (very broad) parameters, I write about what I want to write about, when I want to write about it. I don’t have editors requiring me to cover certain stories or write about certain topics, or assigning me stories. I generally write about things because I feel like writing about them. With certain caveats, of course — it isn’t like at 3 p.m. every afternoon I have a…