According to a recent Brown University study, the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and their ripple effects have cost the United States $3.7 trillion, or more than $12,000 per American.
Category: Humor
Curb your enthusiasm
Instant Larry David classic from last night’s show:
A ‘post-idea’ world? I don’t know what to make of that.
Read Neal Gabler’s essay in today’s New York Times before you jump on Facebook to tell friends what your cat had for dinner and how much you hate Mondays.
Super PACs, God in sync on Perry for prez
The carefully coiffed Texan with the designer cowboy boots is looking to take full advantage of the Bush Supreme Court’s disastrous Citizens United decision. Already, so-called “Super PACs” created to generate money for Perry are looking as dirty as the laws that allow for this sort of fundraising…
If you prick corporations, do they not bleed?
“Corporations are people, my friend,” says Mitt Romney, who looks like a middle-aged Ken doll and acts like he has an industrial coolant coursing through his veins. A people expert, no doubt. His valiant defense of the ruling class didn’t play well with some Iowans…
London looters bypass bookstores… Sign o’ the times?
Looter A: Listen, mate, two quid will get you ten boxes of the latest Franzen, in hardcover.
Looter B: Bollocks! What about the new Xbox 360 games?
Cutbacks in social services for the poor helped trigger riots this week in England, and good old consumerism kept enthusiasm high among participants. But why did looters shun bookstores?
One reason so many current movies suck
Even in the hippie era there was Robert Redford, who could do romantic comedy then convincingly portray legendary Indian fighter Jeremiah Johnson. Now we have Zach Galifianakis, Jeremiah Johnson’s ugly brother, playing the type of guy who couldn’t fight his way up to the bar at happy hour…
Sexist-crazed NOW prez scolds Newsweek
It’s “sexist,” says National Organization for Women President Terry O’Neill, in high dudgeon concerning Newsweek’s cover photo of crazy-eyed Michele Bachmann looking crazy-eyed.
Philly’s turf war against flash mobs
I had to laugh when I saw the Agence France-Presse story about the “flash mob curfew” now in effect in my obscenely humid hometown of Philadelphia.