This just floored me: “When I hear the constant vilification of corporate America, I personally don’t understand it,” Dimon said in his speech. “I would ask a lot of our folks in government to stop doing it because I think it’s hurting our country.” That is Jamie ...

Commentary » Blog Archive » Allow Me to Twirl My Evil Moustache (or Payess, If You Know What I Mean) Chas Freeman has withdrawn his name from consideration as the chairman of the National Intelligence Council….The guy goes out with guns blazing–a bit too hot, for my taste. He pins his departur...

The right-wing obsession with trashing women never ceases to amaze me. Kathryn Jean Lopez’s write-up of Feministing blogger Jessica Valenti’s wedding is no exception (and of course, Ace of Spades follows up). Lopez titles the piece “You’ve Never Met a Bridezilla Like a Femini...

I have no idea when this ad was made — though it looks to me that it was created in recent years under an attempt to make it look older — but I do know that it’s not nearly as cute as director Errol Morris apparently thinks it is: So not only do you have the same boring yet offensi...

Really? Nickelodeon is standing by troubled singer Chris Brown, who has been charged with two felonies in the alleged beating of girlfriend Rihanna. In a statement to Usmagazine.com, the network said Brown, 19, will remain a Kids’ Choice Award nominee for favorite male singer and favorite song...

The gay Nazis are still after artist/critic Maureen Mullarkey. In a long rambling Weekly Standard piece complaining about how the gay community's "brownshirts" have targeted her since her Prop 8 donation became public, she closes with this: It is one thing to read hate-filled mail on a computer scre...

Here is a little story about a driver who would score very high on the Asshole Rating Self-Exam (ARSE): An Officer stops a driver for running a red light. The guy is a real jerk and comes running back to the officer demanding to know why he is being harassed by the Gestapo! So the officer calmly tel...

Fineman: Establishment Starts to Turn on Obama | Newsweek Voices - Howard Fineman | Newsweek.com Other than all that, in the eyes of the big shots, he is doing fine. The American people remain on his side, but he has to be careful that the gathering judgment of the Bigs doesn’t trickle down to...

So it's not a woman sucking off a horse, but I thought it was pretty wtf. Vatican backs excommunication of Brazilian MDs over child's abortion In Short: A 9 year old girl is raped by her step father and impregnated with twins. Doctors decide to perform an abortion seeing that the pregnancy will like...

So says the Catholic Church. (And what the heck is going on this week with the Church being publicly ridiculous in full force?). The article was printed at the weekend in l’Osservatore Romano, the semi-official Vatican newspaper, to mark international Women’s Day on Sunday. “What i...