“I don’t think I hurt his feelings. I think you hurt his feelings.” “I know, but when he looks at me with those big brown eyes, I just melt.” “Well, she may be a whelping bitch, but she sure doesn’t look like a whelping bitch.” “The whole rolled-up newspaper thing made a lot of sense…
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The Newtator-in-Chief Lord Spare Us
Over at the New York Times, Republican truth-teller Bruce Bartlett has a column headed “Gingrich and the Destruction of Congressional Expertise,” explaining how, as Speaker, Newt “did everything in his power to dismantle Congressional institutions that employed people with the knowledge, training and experience to know a harebrained idea when they saw it,” said harebrained…
Is rape the new toilet paper?
A little background. Back in the early days of the DVD era, I rented a disc with the specials that Rodney Dangerfield did for HBO back in the eighties. After sitting through three or four hours of standup, most of it not by Rodney, I could only imagine that when comedians got together for drinks,…
The New Yorker, defining deviancy down
Way back in the day, in 1997, to be precise, the New Yorker ran an article by James Traub on the University of Phoenix, not too kindly entitled “Drive-Thru U.: Higher Education for People Who Mean Business (The Next University).” Well, what a difference a decade (and a half) makes. Earlier this year, Harold Ross’…
It’s not what you know, it’s whom you knew at Harvard
Via Ben Smith at Politico, Ira Stoll, at The Future of Capitalism, reviews Christine Ward’s Confidence Game: How a Hedge Fund Manager Called Wall Street’s Bluff and explains how hedge fund manager William Ackman shook the Municipal Bond Insurance Association’s money tree with a little assistance from Marty Peretz, Eliot Spitzer, and Barney Frank. Money…
THEORY AND PRACTICE OF EDITING NEW YORKER ARTICLES
The average contributor to this magazine is semi-literate; that is, he is ornate to no purpose, full of senseless and elegant variations, and can be relied on to use three sentences where a word would do. It is impossible to lay down any and complete formula for bringing order out of this underbrush, but there…
The bad news is that the bank is foreclosing; the really bad news is that Megan McArdle is writing an article about you
Poor Edmund Andrews, a once-happy economics reporter for the New York Times. Not so long ago, Ed went through a mid-life crisis, divorcing (expensively) his first wife and re-marrying. Despite a settlement that effectively cut his take-home pay in half, and despite a new wife whose money-management skills, and her work ethic, both seemed dubious,…
Market Collapse Due To Rich White Guys, Says Times
Various conservative windbags have been blaming the current financial crisis on damn hippie legislation that forced honest, hard-working white banks to give money to lazy black people. But now the New York Times reports that it was a banker-friendly Securities and Exchange Commission that gave the big Wall Street firms the rope they needed to…
Yes, Fani Willis is a COMPLETE trainwreck
Let’s assess the best case scenario for what went down after Georgia district attorney Fani Willis brought “wide-ranging” (and undoubtedly true) charges of criminally corrupt electoral misbehavior in the 2020 presidential election on the part of then President Donald Trump and a host of other political pluguglies: Immediately after bringing indictments for one of the…
Shorter Jamie Dimon: You’re calling me a “whore”? I prefer the term “businessman”.
Sorry, Jamie, but even by “businessman” standards—if they still exist—you’re a whore, and a pretty goddamn big one too. Here’s Jamie talking to CNBC about the state of the world, after meeting with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy (Ukrainian spelling as per Wikipedia): But, you know, my heart goes out to the guy. I mean, people…