I am, most likely, the only person on earth currently taking a break from the serious work of reading and writing about comics by reading a novel whose cover declares that it “only [could] have been devised by a literary team fielding the Marquis de Sade, Arthur Edward Waite, Sir James Frazer, Gurdjieff, Madame Blavatsky, […]
Month: December 2009
So your taxes can be free. The current estate tax mess is a story of almost mind-numbing greed and legislative incompetence. A quick summary: In 2001 Congress greatly decreased the (already tiny) numb
Wow. Just, wow. Whatever our disagreements about Taibbi’s polemical style, I think we can all agree that if there are any flaws in this classic they result from not going far enough…
Just when you begin to think that it’s literally impossible for Rand Paul’s Senatorial campaign to get any more entertaining:The gentleman behind the mike is Chris Hightower, Rand Paul’s campaign spokesman. In addition to his affection for Satan, Mr. Hightower appears to have demonstrated an unfortunate aversion to “Afro-Americans.” LOL! As an aside, it really […]
Bad: For military women, who lack all rights to medical privacy, facing an unplanned pregnancy is a daunting obstacle. Thanks to anti-abortion forces in Congress, military hospitals are banned from pr
Whoops. If you had bought $1000 worth of stock in each of the ten recommended companies on the day this article was published, and then held them until today, you would have watched your $10,000 inves
Longtime readers will know that I believe that the president’s role in passing new domestic initiatives (as opposed to applying existing regulations or putting issues on the agenda) is an essentially subordinate one, and those who think that a ruthless president with partisan control of Congress can get what he wants need to (for starters) […]
I’d really like to say a few things about the Cliff Lee to Seattle trade, but Scott already put it out there, and as per usual, USS Mariner have it covered. The New York Post has a newsflash: Co
The dilemma facing progressives on health care is simply that the indifference in the face of suffering that the Joe Liebermans of the world have greatly increases their negotiating leverage. His thre
I.E., the guy who takes pride in not watching television, since (a) I watch quite a bit of television; and (b) I think getting academic credit for writing/talking about TV shows would be AWESOME. Indeed I would love to be the Stuart Scott of some Cultural Studies department — booyah! But . . . all […]
…some how or other the most innovative and compelling show in the history of television is only the sixth best show of the past decade. (And they wonder why print’s becoming irrelevant?) U
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