The other night I dreamt I was nine years old, on stage, singing "There's No Easy Way Out" for assembled parents on the last day of summer camp. It was a horrifying dream made all the worse by the fact that it was a memory....
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In honor of Dennis Rodman's trip to North Korea, I thought a North Korean propaganda cartoon was in order. There's no subtitles, but like you really need them Among the.
Interesting: Robert Bork says President Richard Nixon promised him the next Supreme Court vacancy after Bork complied with Nixon’s order to fire Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox in 1973. Bork’s.
Given its namesake, Mother Jones is not exactly great on labor issues. I want to point out this problematic article by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella about AFSCME's opposition to closing an Illinois prison. The problem isn't that they are wrong to criticize AFSCME. Although...
I think Chait gets the lay of the land right here. What matters to congressional Republicans is low taxes for the wealthy, period. They'll take cuts to spending for the.
Booo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo.
The great Emily Nussbaum links to, while critiquing, a defense of the Onion's Quvenzhané Wallis tweet. To amplify Nussbaum's response a little, I actually agree with Johnson that the intent of the tweet was to mock misogynist attacks on girls and women in Hollywood. The...
Of course the conservative response to comparing Ted Cruz and Joe McCarthy is to embrace McCarthy.
Walter Cronkite previews the office of 2001, in 1967. Marissa Mayer would obviously disapprove. Working from home! Of course, Cronkite couldn't imagine a woman in this office. Via
A few interesting pieces on Asian food and history. 1. This is an interesting discussion of the origins of pad thai, a dish that is fairly minor within Thai cooking but is the singular dish of Thai food overseas. It's connections are closely related to...
Is Ron Fournier real? A vicious parody of a self-consciously "centrist" beltway pundit? It's impossible to tell. We can start with the Green Lanternism: But the president won't get off.
Very interesting: Which is where Paraguay’s own “Argo” enters into the story. After Jimmy Carter denied Somoza asylum, he headed to Paraguay, where General Alfredo Stroessner’s right-wing military regime governed..