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Political Culture: Those Condescending Elites!

Jon Cummings February 11, 2010 4

Just in time for last weekend’s National Tea Party convention – an event which will be remembered mostly for the way Sarah Palin had her devotees eating (and the rest of us reading) out

Bootleg City: Mayor to Mayor

Robert Cass January 29, 2010 34

The mayor of Bootleg City is back! And in case you have no idea who that is, the mayor is me! Thank you, thank you, you’re too kind. But if it’s not too much

Sugar Water: Jay Leno Is Blacker Than Rod Blagojevich

Robert Cass January 18, 2010 16

On the morning of January 11, numerous media outlets reported that former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich had proclaimed to Esquire magazine that he’s “blacker than Barack Obama” in its February issue, which arrives on

Sugar Water: Sex!

Robert Cass December 29, 2009 19

Now that I’ve got your attention, I’d like to remind you that in late September— Wow. You’re already not paying attention. You really do think about sex every seven seconds. I thought I was

Political Culture: Ayn Rand’s Polemical Porn

Jon Cummings December 17, 2009 19

Here’s the thing about reading Ayn Rand: She forces you to think the way she does. Once you’ve immersed yourself in her black-and-white worldview — and once you’ve adjusted your expectations to accommodate her

Political Culture: Of Afghanistan, and a Girl From Nantucket

Jon Cummings November 19, 2009 9

It was such a simpler time, that summer of 2001. Remember it? That last season of America’s (cyclical) innocence shimmers in the memory, sorta like those gauzy images of lovebirds Robert Redford and Mia

Sugar Water: Adieu, “Water” Lou

Robert Cass November 13, 2009 8

A nation mourned Wednesday night, as CNN’s Lou Dobbs, an outspoken critic of illegal immigration, announced his retirement from the network. Though it’s still unclear which nation is in mourning, experts have conclusively ruled

Political Culture: Still Two Americas

Jon Cummings November 5, 2009 13

We may not have John Edwards to kick around anymore – though that hasn’t stopped us from putting the occasional boot into his backside, has it? – but he did leave us with a

Sugar Water: Say It Ain’t So, Joe (Just Say It in Two Words or Less)

Robert Cass September 11, 2009 10

Representative Joe Wilson of South Carolina became a household name on Wednesday when he “heckled” President Obama during the commander-in-chief’s congressional speech on health-care reform. After Obama assured the joint session of Congress that