Okay, perhaps I should have said “Paul Krugman has a far more sophisticated grasp of the uniquely divided nature of the American working class than he had demonstrated in many of his previous public comments”, but heads like that don’t get the clicks, and I don’t have to tell you that “Literature R Us”, frequently…
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T. S. Eliot a Prissy Sh*t, studies show
OK, I can’t believe this! I have never, in the history of this blog, made fun of one of le plus noir of my many bêtes noirs, T. S. Eliot. Well, no time like the present to remedy this most grievous fault, because Princeton University has recently “made available” (though not to you)1 over a…
Are we having fun yet? Why living at the end of history has become the living end
When I went to first grade, I learned to print my name and hide under my desk in case of a nuclear blast. When I went to the movies, I saw news reels of U.S. above-ground atomic weapons tests in Nevada. (Nobody worried about fallout then.) In 1968, my parents could stand on their front…
Well, this is embarrassing! Donald Trump will probably/possibly/maybe do what Barack Obama should have done. Get us the heck out of Afghanistan!
Yes, it’s true! Or maybe it is, as Donald Trump would say. Who knows? Tune in next week! Indeed, the agreement signed between the U.S. and the Taliban contains a lot of if thens and if whens. As Adam Wunische, over at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, explains, in his article “The U.S.–Taliban Deal…
Shorter Mike Bloomberg: Yes, I am an arrogant, self-involved, racist, anti-Muslim, authoritarian billionaire! But I’m not as bad as Donald Trump!
The sad thing is, everything in that headline is true. I would take Mike over Trump, though by a damned small margin. Not only does Bloomberg have a record of obvious racism, blame-shifting with regard to the provenance of the Great Recession, authoritarian longings, and a frenzied Likudist/interventionist take on foreign affairs, as mayor he…
Yo, “Conservatives”! You had a 30-year preview of Donald Trump! It was called “The Rush Limbaugh Show”!
I have been following, with a curious compulsion, the comings and goings of anti-Trump conservatives, who frequently hold forth at newly formed sites like The Bulwark and The Dispatch. The recent announcement of Rush Limbaugh that he was suffering from lung cancer brought forth an affectionate reminiscence from James Swift, one of the leaders of…
Yes, Impeachment Was TOTALLY Worth It!
Damn straight it was. There will be some handwringing and pontificating—because, you know, pundits gotta pundit—but the fact is Trump’s actions were deserving impeachment and conviction many times over. The “good arguments on both sides” folks are just covering ass,1 and you know who you are, and you know where you’re going, which is not…
Thank you, Mitt Romney!
I am hereby “grudgingly impressed”—a lot!—by Senator Mitt’s suddenly bold stand to vote for President Trump’s removal from office. I wrote the “grudgingly impressed” line a couple of days ago when I didn’t really think that Mitt or pseudo-skeptic Susan Collins really had the nerve to pull the trigger on the big guy, but I…
A Disarray of Democrats
O my party! Oh, my party! Oy, my party! Quelle mess, n’est-ce pas? Yes, Iowa Democrats covered themselves in what I’m pretty sure is a shitload of obloquy, which they heartily deserve, in the biggest Democratic techno-mess since the ObamaCare roll-out. Democrats don’t do technology, it seems. They seem to confuse it with magic, and…
Howard Zinn, apologist with nothing to apologize for, meets Ronald Radosh, former commie with no place to go
My head probably should be the other way around,1 because I’m bouncing off a piece by the living Ronald, “Howard Zinn: Fake Historian”, over at Law & Liberty, whatever and wherever that is, taking down poor old Howard, who died back in 2010. Radosh is, in turn, bouncing his piece off a new book by…