Politics
Low-Calorie Food Fight!Sep 27 2012 Students at a Kansas high school are claiming that the government is trying to starve them to death. In the teeny-weeny Great Plains town of |
Cultural Caviar
Wagging the Dirty Infidel DogSep 14 2012 Dumb Middle Easterners are angrier than ever at the West today, and dumb Americans are angrier than ever at the Muslim world, and we"re not |
Manhunt
An Overdose of HopeSep 08 2012 The Democrats are done weaving their web in Charlotte, and wow, what a web it was"an intricate lattice of multicolored Silly String that included everyone |
Manhunt
A Zero-Watt AffairSep 01 2012 If the recently adjourned Republican National Convention was intended to cure insomnia, it was a thundering success. But if it was meant to light a |
Idiocracy
Satan, Thy Name is Paul RyanAug 18 2012 Paul Ryan wants to hurt you. Oh, sure, he may seem nice, but that’s only a mask. In reality, this wonky honky is “a soulless |
Afternoon Delight
Estonia to Krugman: Y”all Needs to ChillJun 09 2012 The ex-Soviet satellite state of Estonia is home to slightly over a million people and is smaller than Vermont and New Hampshire combined. Yet in |
Uncategorized
In the Wake of Whitney’s WakeFeb 25 2012 Admittedly it is déclassé to kick someone when they"re down and even more so when they"re dead. Yet with recent hagiographies of Whitney Houston by |
Politics
Having Trouble Maintaining an Election?Feb 19 2012 Ooh, that smell! Can"t you smell that smell? Pew! It's the latest report from the Pew Center on the States, and it concludes that America's |
Politics
Nigeria: In Haram’s WayFeb 11 2012 Most Americans wouldn’t know the difference between Boko Haram and Boca Raton, even though a Congressional report from November fingered the Nigerian jihadist group as |
Cultural Caviar
Judging Police Brutality on a Tase-by-Tase BasisFeb 04 2012 Dark decades of direct experience with human beings have given us reason to operate from an ecumenical distrust of human nature. Although perfectly natural, human |
Florida
Occupy Home PlateJan 27 2012 Instead of “Take Me Out to the Ball Game,” Florida’s homeless population may soon be singing “Put Me Up at the Ballpark.” Florida Senate Bill |
Commerce
Stacking up Debt (and Bodies) in IllinoisJan 21 2012 When G8 leaders convene in Chicago this May to discuss managing the global economy, they’ll be meeting in a city that has botched its own |
Uncategorized
Why, Oh Why is Iowa so Iowhite?Jan 07 2012 On New Year’s Day, NBC honking head Andrea Mitchell tried making America hip to the Hawkeye State’s unforgivable lack of hipness: The rap on Iowa: |
Politics
The Government v. EveryoneDec 17 2011 Thursday marked 220 years since the Bill of Rights was signed. As tribute, the US government fed the Bill of Rights through a paper shredder. |
Politics
A Boob Named BibiDec 03 2011 After soul-shredding millennia of bloodshed and insane sectarian conflict, a small candle of hope finally flickers in the Middle East. That candle’s name is Binyamin |
Church and State
Shear Terror: Mullets Fingered in Amish Beard AttacksNov 26 2011 About a hundred miles south of the smog-choked, rust-eaten city of Cleveland quietly sits pristine Ohio hill country, home to one of the nation’s largest |
Cultural Caviar
The Great American Pill PartyNov 19 2011 A report released Wednesday says that in 2010, one in five Americans took medication to relieve conditions broadly described as mental disorders. Such medications include |
Cultural Caviar
Sore Losers & Sore Winners: Texas Nixes Rebel-Flag License PlatesNov 12 2011 A hallelujah chorus of joyous whoops and hollers erupted from an audience described as “mostly African Americans” as the Texas DMV voted on Thursday to |
Uncategorized
Going Out in a Self-Inflicted Blaze of GloryNov 05 2011 If you’re going to do something as extreme, impetuous, and possibly ill-considered as setting yourself on fire, it would at least make sense to do |
Cultural Caviar
This Ghastly WeekOct 29 2011 The seven billion huddled residents of this shimmering, twinkling, spinning orb undoubtedly performed millions of kind acts and noble deeds over the past week. The |
Afternoon Delight
The Pope Goes GlobalOct 25 2011 On Monday the Vatican released a document with the unwieldy title “Towards Reforming the International Financial and Monetary Systems in the Context of a Global |
Uncategorized
¡No More Sex, We Want Road!Oct 15 2011 The desperately blue-balled men in the remote jungle village of Barbacoas, Colombia, can breathe a collective sigh of relief—a 112-day “sex strike” that local women |
Cultural Caviar
Chris Christie: Too Fat to Fail?Sep 30 2011 The sad, mopey bald eagle that is the American republic is perched an unlucky 13 months away from the 2012 presidential elections, and the Republican |
Politics
Ahmadinejad: Good, Bad, and UglySep 24 2011 Thursday bore the ripely rotten fruit of a now-yearly autumnal Manhattan ritual—Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke before the United Nations General Assembly, vilifying the West |
Commerce
French or Not French?Sep 17 2011 The Frogs are at it again—the French Resistance has reemerged, this time in an iPhone version. A mélange of French anti-racist and pro-Jewish groups whipped |
Hate Speech
The Stench of CivilitySep 10 2011 In January when a smirking schizoid goony loon who claimed no political affiliation sprayed hot lead on an Arizona crowd—killing six and injuring fourteen—the barking |
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