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A Hack by Any Other Name Would Still be a Hack

By Dan Nexon

On October 16, 2021

Speaking of perhaps the most mendacious living recipient of a Pulitzer Prize, it appears no one at LGM has blogged about his most recent self-immolation. It blazed brighter than a thousand suns. It begins, as so many of these things do, with a Tweet. Glem,...

So Does this Mean that America, Capitalism, and George W. Bush Have Failed?

By Robert Farley

On August 16, 2007

Larry Kudlow, July 17:The big theme in today’s Dow crossing the 14,000 threshold for the first time is one of unprecedented global economic growth and a worldwide stock market boom..

hacks , Iraq

Dow Triumphalism

By davenoon

On July 17, 2007

While checking the stats on his Ameritrade account, Larry Kudlow experiences a sudden rush of blood to the groin:And what’s more, this global stock market boom signifies a major defeat.

OK, OK, Uncle

By Scott Lemieux

In awful movies , hacks , people who consider Pearl Harbor a good movie but are allowed to be professional film critics , quality animation

On July 9, 2007

I'm embarrassed that until I read Alone in the Dark's review I had no idea that Brad Bird had done The Iron Giant, a beautiful film. The only thing stopping me from making Ratatouille a higher priority although everyone says its great is that I...

hacks , wingnuttery

Who Is FDR to Compare Himself to Jon Voight?

By Scott Lemieux

On May 11, 2007

Hugh Hewitt seems unable to distinguish between reality and the movies, which admittedly is a desirable quality in a Bush dead-ender...

hacks , new york times

Good Grief

By davenoon

On March 21, 2007

Really -- it's like the Times was determined to out-stupid the block quotes from Scott's post yesterday about Frank Rich. In an utterly substance-free piece, Mark Leibovich and Patrick Healy.

How Can Students Understand Whether Xenophobia is Good Or Bad Without Reading Rising Sun?

By Scott Lemieux

In bad novelists , hacks

On March 16, 2007

Shorter Dr. Mrs. Ole Perfesser: "The fact that listening to a fourth-rate pop novelist can cause people to change their minds about the consensus of actual scientists proves that science needs to be balanced with fiction more frequently."

fake controversies , hacks , lickspittles , misogynists

Speaking of Which…

By Scott Lemieux

On February 16, 2007

I see that Joe Lieberman towel boy Dan Gerstein has deigned to share some high-Broderite musings about the phony Edwards blogger scandal. If you had never encountered Gerstein before, you.

Manqueman Paul's letting the obscene wealth in this nation making him think that we're some sort of developed, advanced society. We're advanced solely when it comes to some materialistic levels....
A Deeply Underfunded FEMA · October 11, 2024
Derelict And you know what makes it even better? The way the media reported all this: "Trump Focuses on Economic Issues" Yep. That's how that entire Detroit thing is being summarized,...
Bobbing and weaving · October 11, 2024
Manqueman He's likely just being on brand, feeding sick shit to his supporters as opposed to speaking to his questioner's group. No big deal.
Bobbing and weaving · October 11, 2024
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There’s a ~~good~~ necessary book to be written about the Times and the media who base their own reporting on following the Times' lead and the 2016 election if anyone is...
Comey and Smith, a story of one double standard · October 11, 2024
Derelict Rightwing loathing of FEMA goes back to Reagan. Ronnie used FEMA as a reward for political cronies and donors, staffing it with wildly incompetent people. As the natural disasters of the 1980s...
A Deeply Underfunded FEMA · October 11, 2024

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