From an obituary in tonight's online New York Times —

Margalit Fox on Lanny Friedlander, founder of Reason  magazine, who died at 63 on March 19*—

"As Mr. Friedlander conceived it, Reason  was neither strictly right-wing libertarian nor strictly left— in modern parlance, neither red nor blue but a purple amalgam of the two. It was genuinely purple at first, as it was run off on a ditto machine."

Related material: Tonight's previous post and, from November 5, 2008—

* The date of Knecht Moves and Supermoon.