The Washington Post has a piece on USC, epicenter of the “pay for class” college admissions scandal. USC is often described/ridiculed as a playground for rich kids, and the Post says there’s plenty to back up the stereotype: There is, to be sure, plenty of privilege. Campus restaurants serve acai bowls, poke and salmon salads….
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Come on, Washington Post. Stop kissing Donald Trump’s ass.
It’s not often that I criticize the WashPost for, well, kissing Donald Trump’s ass, but today is “not often”. The Post has an editorial up, “Come on, lawmakers. Not another shutdown.” Yo, Post! Don’t you mean “Come on, Donald Trump. Not another shutdown.” It was Donald Trump who imposed the most recent shutdown, as a…
Rod Rosenstein, a shande fur di goyim
As I’ve already noted, the New York Times has called upon Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to save “us” and himself by somehow leveraging his “sterling reputation” to make the Trump Administration’s ax murder/defenestration of now former FBI Director James Comey not look like the gaping wound in the body politic that it so obviously…
The enemy within—within the White House
Paul Krugman nailed it: “When the Fire Comes”. So did the Washington Post: “Trump paints a picture of a dystopian America that doesn’t exist”. President Trump is cranking up the volume in the anticipation of the next terrorist attack, or the next police shooting1, in order to announce that chaos reigns, that the gloves are…
Things the Washington Post thinks I might want to buy
A grout brush; a “Carbon Express” crossbow; and some Pampers. Jeff Bezos, you might update your software. Soon.
News on the Right: the Splinters Splintered!
Okay, only by a generous stretch of the imagination (mine) is the Washington Post “on the right”, but in fact the Post’s editorial page has been aggressively “neocon”, bordering on Likudist at times, what with George Will, Charles Krauthammer, Richard Cohen, Jennifer Rubin, Anne Applebaum and Fred Hiatt ramping up the room in favor of…
The Washington Post demands combat!
It’s time to get tough with Cuba! It’s time to get tough with Russia! It’s time to get tough with China! It’s time to get tough with North Korea! It’s time! It’s high time! That’s the rap over at the Washington Post editorial page, which is definitely cruisin’ for a bruisin’, and I mean a…
That perfidious Mr. Putin! Oh, wait, we’re doing it too!
The Washington Post, which seems to have it knickers permanently in a knot these days, is up in arms over a nasty little device the Russians have cooked up, an underwater nuclear drone, which might be used to do the following: “Russia appears to be creating a tactical nuclear weapon that could be slipped into…
Cognitive Dissonance at the Washington Post
Last week, the Washington Post bitterly, and correctly, chastised the entire flock of Republican presidential candidates for their conduct at their most recent debate for remaining very largely mute while Donald Trump went on his now-standard war dance against folks who ain’t like us, and the Constitution, not to mention simple common human decency, be…
Today’s WP Headlines
Wassup in the Wash Post? Why an Army man says he committed mass murder The excuses men give for liking Taylor Swift So, if you’re a guy, you’re always guilty of something, right? According to the Washington Post.