Funny story: I'm fighting with them to take my money. They have two tiers, and the digital-only tier requires you to use the crappy "blue" Android app, the one styled like a magazine, that requires you to swipe left one article at a time to read the paper, like some kind of Tinder for news. Hate it, wouldn't use it even when I got six months free through Prime. The "premium" tier, with a useless dead-tree edition, gets the "grey" app that resembles a newspaper front page, with all its virtues honed over centuries of usage, like random access and executive summaries. But nooooooo, they insist I use the crap app.

I've exchanged several emails with them, pointing out the absurdity of the policy, practically begging them to take my money, to no avail. They're nuts.

Too bad. I decided a while back I had a duty to subscribe (actually pay for) real journalism; subscribed to the Guardian, and I've been shopping for a second. Flirted with the idea of the NYT for a while, but nah, too neoliberal/corporatist/apologist. And you know, I keep coming back to the Washington Post. I wish I could subscribe.