That Cosmo Guy

Trump spokesman digs up an old anti-Semitic insult to diss Emma Lazarus.

Thanx to Charles P. Pierce.

Not a toaster oven

The case for affirmative action

Two ways

The clothing biz privileges men (in the current sense of not treating them like shit).

Thanx to andrewducker

No more

Four of the great writers of my lifetime—John Barth, Ursula K. Le Guin, Philip Roth, and Robert Silverberg—have stopped writing novels. I’m a bit sad, but it would be ungrateful to be too sad, and I think they had a better idea than John Updike did. After he finished with Rabbit and Bech, his lifetime average decreased with every book.