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Bootleg City: Mayor to Mayor
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
Read More »Sugar Water: Jay Leno Is Blacker Than Rod Blagojevich
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
Read More »Sugar Water: Sex!
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
Read More »Political Culture: Ayn Rand’s Polemical Porn
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
Read More »Political Culture: Of Afghanistan, and a Girl From Nantucket
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
Read More »Sugar Water: Adieu, “Water” Lou
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
Read More »Political Culture: Still Two Americas
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
Read More »Sugar Water: Say It Ain’t So, Joe (Just Say It in Two Words or Less)
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
Read More »Political Culture: Gimme Some Truth
The words were spoken in London, casually, almost flippantly, and were directed at an audience that was sure to treat them in the spirit they were intended. It was not until the words traveled
Read More »Political Culture: When Did Americans Become Such Pussies?
I must admit, I had thought the days were over when Republicans could scare the bejeezus out of the citizenry (and force acquiescence from lily-livered Democrats) with bullshit tricks like “threat levels” and smoking
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