(John Backderf, The City by Derf, via Gocomics.com) __ How’s the tuna tartare at your place this weekend?
C.R.E.A.M.
How do you spell ‘C.R.E.A.M.’ in Creole?
Further to DougJ’s discussion of how the rich are different (or at least differently motivated), comes a NYTimes story averring that “Some See a Cash Motive in Duvalier’s Return“: Though Mr. Duvalier has long been accused of looting $300 million from Haiti before fleeing nearly 25 years ago, his lawyers and friends have said that …
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Even Randall Terry’s Given Up on the Repubs
No doubt jealous of all the high-visibility media Fred Phelps has been hogging with threats to picket the funeral of a murdered nine-year-old, “anti-abortion noisemaker” and professional terrorist enabler Randall Terry is making a show of running for President: … [A]t a press conference held outside the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington today, Terry outlined …
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It’s money that matters
I never like those New Yorker cartoons where it’s the rich people sitting around looking old and stuffy with a caption like “I remember when you called me Big Poppa”, but reader F sent me this one today and it seemed incredibly apropos. It’s funny in theory, just as it was funny in that (hoax) …
“Blue Collar” (Minor Bleg)
The confluence of the blogospheric discussions of Nixonland and labor unions made me think about Paul Schrader’s film Blue Collar, which I remember as amazing (and angry-making) but haven’t seen since it first came out in theatres during the rise of the Reaganaut “morning in America” apparatchiks. (Pause while half of you exclaim, “Wow, I …
It’s such a small, small game
Back when lawyer jokes were big, I remember the joke: Q. Why are laboratory scientists switching from rats to lawyers for their experiments? A. There’s some things the rats just won’t do. The reason I’m a liberal is that I believe that sometimes the reason people ascend to the highest Galtian heights is that they …
Two Thousand Angry MOTUs…
… and counting. Brought to you by the Guardian and Rudolf Elmer: Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, today pledged to make public the confidential tax details of 2,000 wealthy and prominent individuals, after being passed the data by a Swiss banker who claims the information potentially reveals instances of money-laundering and large-scale illegal tax evasion. …