Getting rid of poverty is easy. Just change the definition, silly.
This is insane: Concocted on the fly a half-century ago, the official poverty measure ignores ever more of what is happening to the poor person’s wallet — good and bad. It overlooks hundreds of...
View ArticleLiveblog of the 79th Republican Presidential Debate
Topic: FOREIGN POLICY I am going to regret this. 7:59 PM: Wolf Blitzer is lying to his audience on CNN.com. He’s saying that it hasn’t gone live yet, but it has. GOTCHA! 8:02 PM: This is a fucking...
View ArticleAn Evening With Doctor Paul
Brendan is the one who convinced me to go, of course — which is probably why the grown man and his teenage son sitting next to us accused us of being homosexuals — two dudes, late twenties, at a...
View ArticleThe Year is Over
So, it’s 2012 in a bit, and as 2011 winds down, we figured we’d do you the disservice of providing some links to some of the better stuff we’ve put out this year. Everyone does it, I know. We’re not...
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Book Review: “Cooking for Dogs” by Marjorie Walsh
At my job, I encounter a lot of very stupid books. There are a lot of very stupid people, you see, and they like to read very stupid books. And then those get donated to my non-profit and I sort...
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