25. February, 2010
A group of 13 clergy in Ohio petitioned the IRS to investigate the organization that owns a red brick townhouse on Capitol Hill.... I wasn't elated with the early reporting I saw on the claim.
22. February, 2010
Every downturn pushes some people out of the middle class before the economy resumes expanding. Most recover. Many prosper. But some economists worry that this time could be different.
19. February, 2010
17. February, 2010
The health-care mess isn't merely the unintentional result of political dysfunction, in other words.It is also the deliberate consequence of the way in which American policymakers have come to think about insurance.
15. February, 2010
12. February, 2010
There won't be any jobs until after President Palin's sworn in, so you might as well go to law school or some shit.
9. February, 2010
A probation officer for juveniles was arrested Tuesday afternoon after police say he sold heroin to an undercover officer.
7. February, 2010
Words matter, on the religion beat — kind of like politics, or sports, or the food page.
2. February, 2010
Hey Todd, can you help us out with the predicate of this sentence: "The most creative way to provide necessary community services without involving the tax payer and provide the unemployed with daily work income while the state will collect taxes upon economic activity from work projects."
26. January, 2010
Remember My Parents Were Awesome? In the future, this will be pretty much the opposite of that.
23. January, 2010
The "common sense"-the unschooled instincts imparted by upbringing and inherited ideology-of people in this country is individualist and self-reliant. That common sense has become increasingly dysfunctional. [Includes a photo of Our President bravely facing down one of those fat cat bankers he's going after now.]
22. January, 2010
"Has the Internet ever been used more effectively" "NO. NEVER. Not even one time." "SORRY, GOOGLE."
20. January, 2010
I am not going to rehearse any arguments pro and anti the "Google settlement." You decided to deal with the devil, as it were, and have presented your arguments for doing so. I wish I could accept them. I can't.
19. January, 2010
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15. January, 2010
Pope complains about global warming. Or bitches about fags. Or something. These speeches are too fucking long to summarize. Fuck it--I'm going back to bed.
7. January, 2010
Want to know how far Joe Lieberman has fallen in the wake of the health care vote last month? Barack Obama's approval rating with Connecticut Republicans is higher than Lieberman's with the state's Democrats.
5. January, 2010
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16. December, 2009
I'd just talked to a mid-00's Columbia J-school grad who was eating, for his meal that day, hot water with crushed-up vitamins in it.
15. December, 2009
"We've got two choices. We can lob grenades at one another and criticize one another, or face the reality [that we're utterly fucked]."
14. December, 2009
Obama reminds me of Nazi Germany. Here's how: Even at the bitter end, the Germans were using trains they needed to transport troops to the front for the Holocaust instead. It was pure insanity! The U.S. is dead broke, possibly on the way out, just like the USSR--and we're expanding an optional war? What the hell is wrong with Obama? What the hell is wrong with us for putting up with him?"
