The Nobel prize-winning economist talks about how the US economy, if not already broken, is on its way to becoming so because of the rapidly rising inequality that is becoming entrenched and hereditary as the rich put in place laws that preserve their privileges. He dates the beginning of decline to 1980 when the divergence between the very rich and the rest of us began. [Read more…]
Luckily for me, I almost never watch TV otherwise the political commercials that Black castigates would drive me insane, especially since Ohio is a so-called ‘swing state’ and we get much more than our fair share of this nonsense. Yes, we are all swingers here. To think that TV viewers have to put up with this for another three months makes me worry whether come November, people will be wandering around with glazed eyes. [Read more…]
Thanks, as always, to Jesus and Mo for capturing in a few panels a point that it took me an entire extended blog post to make, about how religious people’s rationality only extends so far as it conforms to what their religious texts say.
The TV show Seinfeld takes a look at the oft-discussed puzzle of the strange humor of some of the cartoons that appear in the New Yorker magazine and how they get selected.
Here are a couple of jokes (not from the magazine) that are not nearly as obscure but they took me a little while to get them. (The first one via reader Norm.)
You may recall that I wrote about the craziness in the Texas GOP education platform. Well, Stephen Colbert has noticed it too. [Read more…]
Now that they are back from a two-week hiatus, you could be sure that they would pick on the juiciest of political topics, the one with the most comedic potential, that took place during their absence and they did not disappoint. [Read more…]
… it would make politics much more interesting.
The 1998 comedy Bulworth stars Warren Beatty and Halle Berry, with the former as a politician having some sort of breakdown that rids him of all his inhibitions and allows him to speak his mind. [Read more…]
The Daily Show and The Colbert Report had their fun with the hyperventilating reactions to the health care verdict. [Read more…]
The fact that CNN and Fox News initially reported the wrong verdict was, in my opinion, a trivial matter that merely told us something about the absurd premium placed on being first with news by even a few minutes, as if news was some kind of Olympics event where only the first place finisher got the coveted gold medal. [Read more…]