It looks like this year's farm bill will be even more atrocious than normal.
Month: April 2012
The mania for whitening products in the developing world reaches a new frontier in India. The ad shows (see video, above) a woman wearing trousers, looking mournful because her vagina.
I love it. The conservative tea party icon also got in shots at Democrats and President Obama, who spoke Tuesday at Florida Atlantic University. West said Obama was "scared" to.
One key step to improving sanitation and thus people's lives in the developing world is spreading the sanitary toilet, arguably the greatest technological innovation in history. This Bloomberg piece is a bit too magic-bullet oriented for me, as so many articles on the developing world...
Dear Brown People of Northern New Mexico, Please let me move into your communities so I can find meaning in my spiritually dead consumerist life. I will still consume your.
Well, what has been true de facto since Rick Perry remarkably proved himself too dumb for Republican debates is now pretty much de jure. Although it certainly says something about.
Lori Montgomery. Montgomery's "report" is a classic of the shape-of-the-earth-views-differ genre. A worthless "study" by a Republican touted as if it was comparable to an official CBO report? Check! No attempt to evaluate the truth of the claims? Check! Even a cursory look would have...
It's very difficult to describe the layers of stupid that went into this article: But Democrats have not merely been horrified bystanders wringing their hands as this “war” has unfolded..
The level of stupidity over these Ozzie Guillen pro-Castro remarks makes me want to jump off a bridge. I love that the Marlins hired a manager with a known history.
Chris Christie, brave truth-teller: The report by the Government Accountability Office, to be released this week, found that while Mr. Christie said that state transportation officials had revised cost estimates for the tunnel to at least $11 billion and potentially more than $14 billion, the...
This report on what specific acts of fraud led to Lenny Dykrsta's arrest is a good read. It's kind of amazing that it took this long. As was already clear.
Very interesting read at Lapham's Quarterly by my former colleague Greg Shaya about the role of the press in modern society. An excerpt: What of Vietnam and television? It is.