Mike Konczal Has Not Heard of Karl Marx. Picketty Has. They Used to Be...
Mike Konczal recently reviewed the newest trendy book in economics, Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century, for the Boston Review. Konczal succeeded the impossible task...
Donald’s Gut Makes Decisions
Mr. Trump will announce his vice-presidential selection soon, the New York Times informs its readers. Mr Trump's decision will be surprising but not really.
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Sarah Palin- So Close Yet so Clueless
“If I was in charge,” Palin said Saturday in Indianapolis, “they would know, waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists.”
Clarification 1: Sarah is a hunter...
Need to Get High? Say You Have Sluggish Cog..ni…tive T..E..M..P..O
If TPV could fall in love more often and with more people or corporations at once than it already does, the pharmaceutical industry and...
Hair, Nip, Rump and Kanye
The best four moments of the 57th Grammy Awards were shockingly not related to music but to the people who brought us atonal tonalities, aka amusical crap:
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Outrage over Chinese Giving Birth to Babies on US Soil
Americans have yet to understand that the only viable employment options left to us are either joining the US army or some form of...
Republicans Declare War on Vaginas -God Plagiarizes Gertrude Stein
In an unprecedented event for the U.S. Congress, the Republican God spoke to Its minions.
Vagina is a vagina is a vagina is a vagina....
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Michelle Does China. Successfully.
In a tremendous tour de force, the First Minority Lady promoted both free speech and government involvement in people's lives.
Michelle Obama's week-long trip...
TheWeekholeView of Bad Luck and Poor Timing
Every now and then weeks are meaningful. Here is what fell through the hole in the past few days.
On Thursday, September 1, the White...
Presidential Rogue- The First 10 Days
On 30 January 2017, Eliot Weinberger wrote:
The despair in the weeks following the election has now turned into constructive rage. Opposition – more precisely, oppositions –...
Kim Davis. A Life Made by News
Rowan County clerk Kim Davis got her job when her mamma retired from that same job because 49, Kim's clock started ticking for Social security...
Glasshole in Kiev (Hollywood, 2014)
FADE IN:CLOSE ON the middle aged woman with braided blond hairA card: Kiev.She’s in her early sixties. Her dress is not very crisp....
Scalia’s Orphan Piglets Find New Home
The Supreme Court confirmed this week that all four Scalia clerks will continue to work in their dead master's former headquarters.
The graduate of Northwestern University Pritzker...
Sneaking into Paradise with John Malkovich
“Michael Sturminger, give me your opera, theater, musicals,” I would have easily said plagiarizing Emma Lazarus at the end of The Giacomo Variations, ...
