Tom Tomorrow on HRC
The last two panels of this old cartoon capture my feelings perfectly.
View ArticleWall Street Bungles and Bailouts
Here‘s a succinct account of the current difficulties big US financial firms are facing. It’s from Nuntii Latini, the Latin-language news service from Finnish radio. And here is an argument that the...
View ArticleCounterpunch, 16-31 January 2009
From Paul Craig Roberts, part two of a three-part survey of economics. In Part One, published issue-before-last, Roberts had defended supply-side economics as the insight that reducing marginal tax...
View ArticleFunny Times, January 2010
Jon Winokur’s “Curmudgeon” this month collects quotes on the theme of Washington, DC. Ada Louise Huxtable’s line, “Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks” catches a...
View ArticleFunny Times, June 2010
They haven’t posted the cover for this month’s Funny Times online yet, so I’ve put up this Keith Knight cartoon with a link to the magazine’s homepage. Jon Winokur’s “Curmudgeon” quotes Emile Capouya...
View ArticleTom Tomorrow, Today
A quote from General David Petraeus, commander of US forces in Afghanistan. As always, click on the picture to go to the original site:
View Article“If politicians would stop arguing, they could work together– to get things...
The other day, The Monkey Cage featured a post called “Why Does Congress Flail? Voters Reward Positions More than Success.” As the title implies, the premise of the post was that the US Congress has...
View ArticleWorshiping coitus
Sacred art One of our recurring themes here on Los Thunderlads is the remarkable weakness of arguments against gender-neutral marriage. The law-courts of the world are full of lawyers advancing...
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