The Bush administration lawyers who formulated and justified the worst abuses and excesses of the administration's war on terror conduct are having trouble finding work! They should be having trouble finding judges willing to hear their appeals, but no, instead they're all just bitching about how no...

Insulating yourself from the world is so much easier. If you have no contact, there are no boys to have to meet, and be interested in, and turn down, or say yes to, or decide among. And that's comforting, not having to decide. "But how can you know what you want, 'Til you get what you want, and you ...

I want to believe him, but when I hear about people like that asshole Santelli screaming about the "losers" who are losing their homes and how he is heralded as the voice of America by that douchebag Brian Williams, or when I am reminded that Limbaugh is heard in every part of the country but libera...

goodbye dubai. Smashing Telly writes: Short of opening a Radio Shack in an Amish town, Dubai is the world’s worst business idea, and there isn’t even any oil. Imagine proposing to build Vegas in a place where sex and drugs and rock and roll are an anathema. This is effectively the proposition th...

It’s about damn timeThe HoseBeast goes Home for herHollandaise Challa. (it's a masterwork of quasi-alliterative Haiku, non?) I mean, honestly, what’s to say? I’m happy; it’s unsurprising; and it’s way overdue. Beyond that, there’s not much to say about someone who distinguished herself n...

As you may know, Lux Interior passed away recently — wait, I can’t believe I just typed “passed away” — he fucking DIED. Anyway RIP and all that stuff, although maybe he’d rather be haunting some garbage truck in Memphis or Tennessee. One thing I found astonishing...

I just threw up into my mouth, reading this article. Not only are the executives of failed banks earning billions of dollars in bonuses, just as much as the early 2000s, but if their income is capped at $500,000… they might need to consider public schools. I have only one word for these people...

Following on the heels of yesterday’s post on a 1993 long-form, take-down profile of Gregory Clark, readers might be interested in taking a look at Matt Taibbi. He is a true master of what I call fuck-you journalism, something of a subset of gonzo style. If you thought the reporter for The Aus...

Amazing read (thanks to Debito for the link!) Gregory Clark beams: “Just pulled in a biggie!” he tells me as he puts down the phone. We are at Tokyo Airport about to jump on a plane for Osaka where Clark is giving a lecture to a group of Japanese executives. The “biggie” is a...

Srsly. SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – Gov. Rod Blagojevich was thrown out of office Thursday without a single lawmaker coming to his defense, brought down by a government-for-sale scandal that stretched from Chicago to Capitol Hill and turned the foul-mouthed politician into a national punchline. Blagojevich...