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  • The Reign Of Morons Is Here | Esquire

    We have elected a national legislature in which Louie Gohmert and Michele Bachmann have more power than does the Speaker of the House of Representatives, who has been made a piteous spectacle in the eyes of the country and doesn’t… Continue reading

    The Reign Of Morons Is Here | Esquire

  • Summer To Do List: Tank The Economy | Esquire

    As I have noted again and again, op/eds and reporting at Esquire are so far beyond the majority of what is found at major networks and a good portion of newspapers. What are you doing for the rest of the summer?… Continue reading

    Summer To Do List: Tank The Economy | Esquire

  • A Brief Outbreak Of Draconian Sanity | Esquire

    A conviction on this charge [“aiding the enemy”] literally would have criminalized the dissemination of information, which is the central purpose of the First Amendment, as long as one of our many purported enemies had access to a computer, or… Continue reading

    A Brief Outbreak Of Draconian Sanity | Esquire

  • On the Cover of the Rolling Stone

    This thing with the cover of the Rolling Stone is more in the vein of the Society of Propriety notions that I dealt with the other day. I was mostly going to avoid the topic, then I was popping around… Continue reading

    On the Cover of the Rolling Stone

  • Francis Ford Coppola Interview |Esquire

    Apocalypse Now Redux and Godfather I & II are among my favorite films… could not resist this piece over at Esquire magazine. A pleasure to read as Stephen Garrett allows Mr. Coppola to just ramble from question to answer to question.… Continue reading

  • George Zimmerman, Propriety, and Losing Way

    Got up this morning and began looking through the reactions about the George Zimmerman acquittal. As usual, Charles P. Pierce over at Esquire magazine’s Politics Blog caught my eye… Thought experiments are useless now. Of course, if the races of… Continue reading

    George Zimmerman, Propriety, and Losing Way

  • The Flying Monkey Caucus

    Charles P. Pierce certainly is fired up over at Esquire. Rightfully so: The Republican Farm Bill drops food stamps for the poorest while keeping plenty of subsidies for big agribusiness. Earlier this week, [Speaker John] Boehner pretended he was leading… Continue reading

    The Flying Monkey Caucus