The Spontaneous Collaboration Fantasy
Jul. 18th, 2021 11:28 amBig business heroically resists learning from the pandemic. [Galaxy Brain]
There is a popular belief that politicians are stooges for the malefactors of great wealth. That’s oversimplified of course, but going back at least to Nelson Rockefeller, some of the malefactors of great wealth have decided to eliminate the middle man and become politicians themselves. One example is private equity kingpin Mitt Romney. (Yes, boys and girls, that’s the man whose company killed your toy store.) Now we have Mike Bloomberg, running on a platform of being not as bad as Trump (hardly a unique distinction). He has just demonstrated his unfitness by threatening to run the Oval Office on the open office plan.
The Electoral College isn’t enough
Jul. 19th, 2019 08:56 amScott Walker says in outside voice that rural votes should count more than urban ones. Obviously, empty space should be represented because that’s what’s in the heads of most of his voters. [Crooks & Liars]
Against a Federal Registry of Genitals
Oct. 24th, 2018 05:05 amIt is of course common sense that humanity is divided into men and women, and you can tell which someone is by looking, just as it is common sense that the Sun goes around the Earth. The Trump Gang, unsurprisingly, is promoting this cruel and stupid doctrine. [Atlantic]
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Free from the ravages of sex education
Feb. 22nd, 2017 05:09 amMale chiropractor solves the menstruation menace
There goes the neighborhood
Dec. 5th, 2016 06:09 amBud Selig joins Bowie Kuhn and the other immortals in the Baseball Hall of Fame. As King Kaufman said, “Can you remember the last time you went nine months without hearing the words ‘firestorm of controversy’ in relation to something Bud Selig did?” He was a Godawful commissioner, but it turns out he did something even worse. As the news story says,
He repeatedly said he never would become commissioner, but he blocked Texas Rangers owner George W. Bush from taking the job, leading Bush to run for governor of Texas and later president.
Wayne Alyn Root used to advertise in the pro football mags that he could tell us how to beat the point spread. Unfortunately, he encountered Donald Trump, who dragged him down to his level. He is now touting a radical new approach to voting in which welfare and Medicare recipients and women who get free contraception would be disenfranchised because they have a “conflict of interest.” That would presumably reduce the electorate to the impartial voters who merely get tax breaks, the chance to declare bankruptcy, and bailouts if they have truly gargantuan losses at the Wall Street Casino, and then maybe Trump could actually win. It wouldn’t work.
