Former New Yorker, and thus writing for New York magazine Kevin Roose exposes the horror by the Bay—San Francisco Bay, where ubiquitous Uber cars and other forms of high-end transportation, financed by dotcom mega-billionaires are undercutting support for public transportation, to the extent that a strike of BART employees shutting down the city’s subway system…
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Russian Jazz: “Think of One”
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Gregory Mankiw: Clever? Yes. Honest? Not so much.
Harvard big shot economist Gregory Mankiw* has gotten a lot of mileage out of his recent screed, “Defending the One Percent,” basically claiming that rich folks should get the “just deserts” of their labors, which most wondrously enrich the lives of the rest of us uncreative schmucks, and arguing that the more we uncreative schmucks…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here. “Which means that, given an inertial velocity of 83 kph and an estimated mass of 1700 kilograms, you should have started signaling approximately five seconds before changing lanes instead of three. This isn’t rocket science, hot shot.” “Clearly, you failed to consider the increasing gravitational pull of the Moon, which will reach…
Steve Martin, not phoning it in
In the past I’ve had the occasion to suggest that Steve Martin no longer wants to get laughs, or at least doesn’t want to get laughs if it means he has to work at it. Well, these days Steve is touring with a blue grass band, the Steep Canyon Rangers, and he’s not phoning it…
Courtly Court: The Supremes make the tough decisions so we don’t have to
Politics are messy, aren’t they? And so are politicians. They’ll vote for feel-good legislation like the Voting Rights Act and the Defense of Marriage Act despite the many adverse and unfair impacts of the legislation because it helps them win elections. And then they’re saved from having to undo the messes they’ve made because the…
Peggy Noonan 2013—colder, sordider, and stupider than ever you could imagine
The Republicans never seem to hit bottom. Latest in the hit parade of Republican folly is the “theory,” earnestly advanced by Stan Veuger of the American Enterprise Institute and promoted in a fury by Peggy Noonan of the Wall Street Journal, that the 2012 election was stolen from the Republicans by those light-fingered liberals at…
Mitch McConnell, Absolute Asshole
For a glimpse at DC ego in action, check out Kentucky Sen. Mitch “Mitch the Bitch” McConnell berate, belittle, and bedrabble AEI policy nerd Norman Ornstein for having the temerity to ask the senior senator from the Bluegrass State, aka “the Chinless Wonder,” a question he didn’t want to answer. I suppose that a right-wing…
Pseudo New Yorker
Legal humor here. “Ever since Bloomberg turned over the whole ‘Beautify New York’ campaign to Anna Wintour, things have been in high gear. And I mean high!” “I understand the venial sinners get off in Weehawken.” “Well, they’re finally cracking down on the ‘too dumb for New York, too ugly for LA’ crowd. No, it…