The Teleprompter Terrorist

Can Obama’s Teleprompter drug reporters into an involuntary state of euphoric torpor?

A New New Deal

Back in October in a post titled The Rape Of The American Taxpayer, when the government’s bailout of Wall Street was already in high gear, I wrote: Having been brutally raped by a Wall Street gang, aided and abetted by Bush and his congressional cronies, Americans are now being required to buy the rape kit, as well as bear and …

For What It’s Worth

Fuck you, little people!  I got mine—  see if you can get yours. When it comes to economics, the profit motive is to the service motive what fear is to love in religion. But ruthless competition— for example, this, this, or this— that is based on the narrow-minded pork of self-interest, eventually destroys even the very things it seeks to …

Mad As Hell

Hey mighty brontosaurus Don’t you have a message for us You thought your rule would always last There were no lessons in your past… Walking in your footsteps Walking in your footsteps -Sting/The Police From the Wall Street/DC Axis of Evil, the Treasury Department-– oh hell, let’s just call it what it is: a wholly owned subsidiary of Goldman Sachs— …

ATTENTION CATHOLICS

Eric J. Lyman. ROME — The Vatican could be gearing up for an official call for a boycott of “Angels & Demons,” Ron Howard’s big-budget follow-up to “The Da Vinci Code.” And malevolent flying monkeys could be streaming towards urth as I write this. Avvenire, the Vatican’s official newspaper, ran a story in Friday’s edition noting that the Church “cannot …