Fuggedaboudit
Never mind. I definitely will NOT be calling you next Fall to urge you to vote for President Obama. He may very well be the lesser of two evils, but I just donated my shares in the evil-measuring...
View ArticleMust We Say It Yet Again?
Despite the contempt expressed for honest people by modern campaign managers, foreign policy experts, and the heads of national intelligence services, honesty is not a form of mental retardation....
View ArticleDefaming Youth
He (or she) is a teacher (or an employer.) These kids today — I deal with a lot of them. No. Not this. Not again. They don’t like to work, and they don’t know anything. They can’t spell, they can’t add...
View ArticleA Cold Day in Hell
Today Paul Krugman has discovered that, gasp, technological unemployment is really real! And it’s really, finally here! And it really, really will result in a permanent transfer of wealth from labor to...
View ArticleThe (Demented) Logic of the Democratic National Committee
Social democracy can’t even defend itself, let alone us. Therefore we should vote for Hillary Clinton.
View ArticleI Shall Wear the Bottoms of My Trousers Rolled
On Outliving the Language I Was Taught Toe the line/Tow the line: We don’t have draft centers any more, where hundreds of young men at a time were once directed to stand with their toes against a line...
View Article21st Century Public Policy Priorities
1. Look out for your family, friends, and people who’ve got something on you. 2. Starve, bomb, incarcerate, belittle, or humiliate everybody else. 3. Elevate assholes. 4. Listen attentively to morons....
View Article21st Century Character Studies, Part II
It’s not that Mark Zuckerberg, Travis Kalanick, or Jack Dorsey are unscrupulous; it’s that they don’t seem to have any idea what scruples are.
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