In the day we sweat it out on the streets of a runaway American dreamAt night we ride through the mansions of glory in suicide machinesSprung from cages out on highway 9,Chrome wheeled, fuel injected,and steppin’ out over the lineh-Oh, Baby this town rips the bones from your backIt’s a death trap, it’s a suicide…
Tag: hillary clinton
Beat the Press! It’s the Clinton’s favorite game!
Another Clinton scandal? Who could have seen this coming? Yes, the Clintons are thoughtless, sloppy, greedy, and self-indulgent—kind of like me, except they manage to make it pay better than I do. But why do they keep doing it? Why, why, why? Because they don’t think it matters. They don’t care what the press says…
Meet the new liberators, same as the old liberators
In the past, I’ve raved, or at least praised, Pankaj Mishra and his book, From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia. In his book, Mishra quotes a testy Egyptian on the original liberators of the benighted East, the army of Napoleon Bonaparte: “It is their custom not to bury their dead but…
Hillary Clinton, Warrior Princess
By now, you may have read that Hillary Clinton’s interview with Jeffrey Goldberg was not quite the unadulterated love-fest that Goldberg described in his intro to the rap session. It was only 99 percent unadulterated. At the Daily Beast, Michael Tomasky wants us to believe that Hillary isn’t really a neocon. She’s just a “muscular…
Republicans Yell at Hillary Clinton a Lot
A Republican fantasy came true on Wednesday—they got to tell Hillary Clinton to her face that she’s a jerk. That’s the sum and substance of the long-sought Senate hearing into the murders of four Americans in Benghazi Libya, including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens. Republicans might have asked her if the murders had made her rethink…
Hillary’s helicopters, and the world-historical moment that wasn’t
It’s been a while now since Hillary Clinton left Wesleyan in search of ecstasy, but she’s still at it, currently auditioning for the title of Joan of Arc for the Middle East, a position eminently available ever since George Bush fell on his Andover-educated ass in its pursuit. Just a couple of days ago she…
Well, if Hillary Clinton jumped off a cliff, would you do that? And the same for the Roman Stoic Musonius Rufus
The New York Times has a long, all too-informative article on leading Catholic windbag and Princeton University professor Robert P. George who explains that he can’t be blamed for supporting the invasion of Iraq because Hillary voted for it. He goes on to say that he doesn’t like to talk about sex because the Roman…
The horror. The goddamn horror.
Over at Talking Points Memo, Josh Marshall flies into a rage at the thought of Hillary Clinton campaign advisor Mark Penn moonlighting as a lobbyist in support of the proposed bilateral free-trade agreement between the U.S. and Colombia, which Hillary opposes. “There are so many reasons why candidates should be paying Mark Penn to stay…