Today’s news is all about “gifts,” which seems seasonally appropriate.…
Tag Archives: Congress
Wandering Veterans, Fiscal Cliffs
While Congress grinds its wheels…
In case you needed a reminder of why…
Relax. We're Doomed.
A correspondent from one of the most thoroughly fucked parts of our planet — the…
Candy For Comfort: The Government Has A Deal For You
A few days ago the media gently lobbed an interesting trial balloon at an unsuspecting…
Corporations Develop, Destroy Internet
Let’s say I make a bunch of pirated copies of a DVD movie, stick the discs in envelopes,…
Laying the Tracks for Kochs to Come: Democracy or Republic?
You just can’t trust the rhetoric, whether it’s left, right, or libertarian.…
Need more taxes? Make more taxpayers!
The Congress is nothing if not inventive. It seems that our President has a plan to…
Go ahead. Tax my day.
Our newest editor, Mr. Butler Adams, is still in recovery from serious cranial…
Open Thread: What Else Can We Blame Bush (Or The Republicans) For?
We get comments, often on Facebook, from people we thought had given up long ago on reading…
The Myth of “Job Creation”
Hatto, our culture editor, has boldly met our hour of national need by turning his thoughts…
Anthony Weiner: Victim
Well, I got it all wrong. It wasn’t Weiner who wronged anyone; it was we who wronged…
