JOLLY DAYS

Slate V, Born Into A World It Never Made

Slate V — that's vee, not “5” they emphasize — is launching a new website, which they say is…

…an ordered universe of video, in which all the content has the irreverent wit, sharp intelligence, and counterintuitive insights that have been the hallmarks of Slate the magazine for the past 11 years…we want Slate V to occupy that sweet spot between CNN and YouTube.

Counterintuitive insights? That sweet spot between CNN and YouTube?

Well, I like Hitchens. Is Hitch doing videos?

Personally I feel Jolly Days fills the counterintuitive sweet spot between The Harvard Review of Philosophy and Howard the Duck.