I Gave up on Kanye West a long time ago, after his comments questioning the beauty of dark skin black women and his seeming endorsement of a pigmentocracy. His comments on black history seem odd given that his wife is deeply involved in keeping alive the history & memory of the Armenian genocide. I think the…

In any externally oppressed community—ethnic, religious, you name it—you will always be able to find a few members who are convinced that the group itself is the principal author of its own oppression. It happened in colonial India, it happened among Jews in Europe in the 19th century (when it was a popular thing to…

Fans that buy into the sanctimony of sport are the absolute worst.

Probably because Krugman actually knows a thing or two about economics, making him an extremely rare bird in the media (liberal or otherwise).

Charlie Pierce had him relentlessly nailed from the get go.

Conservatives are masters of working the referees. It’s why the NYT covered HRC like a hawk while normalizing Trump’s obvious affinity for authoritarianism during the campaign, and why James Comey felt compelled to disclose the reopening of the email case right before the election despite FBI and DOJ protocol. The…

Ryan has played the long con for his entire life. He probably wanted to stay in office longer but he doesn’t have the stomach to go through the Trump fiasco. He will get a big pay day from the right wing propaganda machine.

It was fascinating to watch Ezra Klein realize on dozens of occasions that Paul Ryan behaves a grifter who acts in bad faith, without realizing that Ryan is a grifter who acts in bad faith.

mmm idk. I think there is probably a lot more to this story than just “a dumb ol’ teenager ran away ahah but he was just chillin’ it’s all good now!” Reading between the lines, it sounds like home life was a bad situation.

I imagine it would look slightly like this shit.

Well, that joke bombed

Mark Walhberg will play the Japanese guy in the movie.

So, I don’t hate it, though that probably has to do with the fact that I’m always interested in how artists cover one another’s songs.

I suspect its because he’s got that Ben Shapiro look of being a young privileged white dude who speaks passionately on the issues. But without being a trolling racist piece of shit. This confuses rightwingers as they can’t dismiss him as a minority.

Giving money to random non-vetted “causes” on the internet is like giving up your hard earned money to pastors and preachers. If you do it, you pretty much deserve to be a broke ass bitch.

So I’m trying to understand why this article is written as if we’re talking about some basic beef between cliques or a new Queen hen is in charge or as if she’s trying to get rid of her old crew like that’s not it. This moment that we’re speaking of is very significant. It’s someone trying to get rid of officials a…

Americans have this strange cognitive dissonance in both permitting graphic violence and sex (and sexual violence) in our media, and yet being strangely puritanical in other ways.

Can confirm. People immersed in PE are easily the worst people I’ve ever been involved with, and I comment on the internet.

The PE guys will then blame “overseas competition” for the jobs stolen by their financial fecklessness, and “family breakdown” for the fact that unemployed people use drugs at a much higher rate. From Brian Alexander’s Glass House, about the debt-fueled takeover and devastation of glass maker Anchor Hocking and its…

I work for a company that does business with others that are often PE owned. We HATE giving these companies money that doesn’t have explicit strings on it because we know that the PE firm is going to suck that money out instead of putting it toward actual business uses.