Anyone’s who’s been following the ludicrous and depressing Presidential primary spectacle knows that we’ve had to endure a lot of silly news stories about hair. Shining, gleaming, streaming, flaxen, waxen hair.
Now, I don’t care how much John Edwards or Mitt Romney paid for their haircuts. In my socialist utopia, we would all get $400 […]
Michael Moore’s “SiCKO” is, in certain respects, a perfect political movie. One film isn’t going give us single-payer universal health care in this country, but this one might just move us a little closer to it. In its portrayal of a perverse health care system that places profits before patients, “SiCKO” manages to do […]
In the July 15th New York Times, Louis Uchitelle has an excellent piece about some truly disgusting people. They’re the richest Americans, emblems of what Uchitelle calls the “new gilded age”. Read the whole article here, and marvel at billionaires who compare themselves to Derek Jeter and pine for the days before there was an […]
