| 29 Nov 2011 |
Putting the financial system in the red |
| 18 Nov 2011 |
When Scalzi called it “Omelas State University” he was being generous |
| 17 Nov 2011 |
Two cheers for government debt |
| 16 Oct 2011 |
George W. Bush, untaxer of the poor |
| 05 Aug 2011 |
In defense of the debt-ceiling deal |
| 13 Jul 2011 |
Debt ceiling: the endgame begins |
| 28 Jun 2011 |
How I convinced my child to go the f—k to sleep |
| 24 Jun 2011 |
How the mighty hath fallen |
| 17 Jun 2011 |
The mutant as [ethnic slur] |
| 27 May 2011 |
Silly thought of the day |
| 10 May 2011 |
“A family is a little commonwealth” |
| 06 May 2011 |
Charity for crooks |
| 02 May 2011 |
Congratulations, Mr. President |
| 03 Mar 2011 |
The woman in question |
| 11 Jan 2011 |
Why American newspapers are inferior |
| 29 Dec 2010 |
The mathematics of leaks |
| 29 Dec 2010 |
Oy gevalt! Foiled again! |
| 24 Dec 2010 |
Dept. of “we should be so lucky” |
| 20 Dec 2010 |
Calibrating my disappointment |
| 15 Dec 2010 |
“...and I wouldn’t give tuppence for all of the rest.” |
| 23 Nov 2010 |
Informado neniam malutilas |
| 17 Nov 2010 |
Know when to walk away |
| 21 Sep 2010 |
Down and out in Chicago |
| 16 Sep 2010 |
Better minstrelsy, please |
| 14 Sep 2010 |
We can, we can, we can, we can, demolish forty [REDACTED] |
| 08 Sep 2010 |
The Great White North, with postmodern zombies |
| 24 Aug 2010 |
Dead to rights |
| 18 Aug 2010 |
Atlas mooched |
| 03 Aug 2010 |
Translation from PR-speak to English of the Anti-Defamation League’s “Statement On Islamic Community Center Near Ground Zero” |
| 28 Jul 2010 |
The call of cult-calling |
| 27 Jul 2010 |
Wanted: digital passports |
| 19 Jul 2010 |
Sorry, Bibi |
| 09 Jul 2010 |
The workers’ flag is bluest blue |
| 06 Jul 2010 |
IMPORTANT BUSINESS PROPOSAL — BUY THIS BOOK |
| 05 Jul 2010 |
My fellow American religious fanatics |
| 02 Jul 2010 |
An unpatriotic thought |
| 05 May 2010 |
Unprophetable art |
| 02 May 2010 |
You have nothing to loose but your bowels |
| 27 Apr 2010 |
Art for the country’s sake |
| 23 Apr 2010 |
Through brightest day, through blackest night, if evil escapes your sight it’s your own damn fault |
| 22 Apr 2010 |
Republican etiquette |
| 19 Apr 2010 |
Annals of interethnic harmony |
| 14 Apr 2010 |
Confederate necromancy |
| 24 Feb 2010 |
Why your e-book really isn't worth fifteen dollars |
| 23 Feb 2010 |
Health care reform: state of play |
| 29 Jan 2010 |
Thinking outside the beis medrash |
| 24 Jan 2010 |
A House divided against the other house |
| 22 Jan 2010 |
Please call your Representative TODAY |
| 19 Jan 2010 |
Overdrawn at the phone bank |
| 17 Jan 2010 |
An incisor-lickin’ good movie, with a message for our times |
| 13 Jan 2010 |
Weak tea |
| 01 Jan 2010 |
Happy new decade |
| 25 Dec 2009 |
Comrade Vladimir Ilyich has left the building |
| 22 Dec 2009 |
Laws are like sausages; sometimes they contain traces of lead |
| 13 Dec 2009 |
Thank God we are free, unlike this poor sod |
| 29 Oct 2009 |
Bad advice costs nothing, and it’s worth the price |
| 22 Oct 2009 |
If this is “Chicago-style politics”, let’s have more of it |
| 13 Oct 2009 |
Grand Old Pluralism |
| 09 Oct 2009 |
He won the WHAT?! |
| 09 Oct 2009 |
Democrats grow spines, gonads, teeth |
| 08 Oct 2009 |
Down from Puritanism |
| 08 Sep 2009 |
Down with Helvetian imperialism! |
| 06 Sep 2009 |
Dept. of “oh, no, not again” |
| 04 Sep 2009 |
IHTFP but it does have some redeeming social value |
| 02 Sep 2009 |
The Gordian solution to poverty |
| 23 Jul 2009 |
Indicted |
| 10 Jul 2009 |
Peace between Jews and Arabs is the easy part |
| 03 Jul 2009 |
Short reviews of long books |
| 03 Jul 2009 |
Cryptorebel without a cause |
| 01 Jul 2009 |
U-S+Eh! |
| 24 Jun 2009 |
Irony as a second language |
| 30 Apr 2009 |
“The only way a reporter should look at a politician is down” |
| 27 Apr 2009 |
Beyond recycling |
| 21 Apr 2009 |
马 word! |
| 03 Apr 2009 |
Mazel tov! |
| 02 Apr 2009 |
Now we see the violence inherent in the system |
| 26 Mar 2009 |
Blaming the victim (bonus capitalism edition) |
| 25 Mar 2009 |
A big squishy center |
| 19 Mar 2009 |
Rambam, repentance, and racism |
| 13 Mar 2009 |
The pot, the kettle, and the civil rights commission |
| 06 Mar 2009 |
Self-determination, where “self” means “other” |
| 01 Mar 2009 |
Jive turkey |
| 20 Jan 2009 |
Hail to the Chiefs! |
| 12 Dec 2008 |
“You’re laborers! You’re supposed to be laboring!” |
| 09 Dec 2008 |
If you’re gonna be a crook, be a classy crook |
| 07 Dec 2008 |
Democratic tragedy |
| 05 Dec 2008 |
Your fair and balanced religious news from the Middle East |
| 09 Nov 2008 |
Progressive politics by the numbers |
| 28 Sep 2008 |
Motzei shabbat time-delayed debate blogging |
| 24 Sep 2008 |
Standing on principle |
| 23 Sep 2008 |
The secret history of the Betamax |
| 05 Sep 2008 |
The POW-In-Chief |
| 04 Sep 2008 |
Disorganized thoughts on last night's speeches |
| 28 Aug 2007 |
Paranoia in full flour |
| 09 Aug 2007 |
Bar sinister |
| 17 May 2007 |
Converting the unfaithful: a primer |
| 18 Apr 2007 |
He also told the NAACP that he was a great dancer |
| 13 Mar 2007 |
Lack o’ the Irish |
| 12 Mar 2007 |
Creative problem-solving — NOT |
| 12 Mar 2007 |
A timely observation |
| 02 Mar 2007 |
The life of a repo man is always intense... |
| 28 Feb 2007 |
Fact-checking a fact-checker |
| 18 Feb 2007 |
The people have spoken, damn them |
| 04 Dec 2006 |
Let freedom ka-ching |
| 17 Nov 2006 |
Immigration, then and now |
| 13 Nov 2006 |
Place your bets, gentlemen |
| 12 Sep 2006 |
Things Yenta never had to worry about |
| 05 Sep 2006 |
They're |
| 30 Aug 2006 |
Plutonic love |
| 01 Aug 2006 |
Sinai and Geneva |
| 26 Jul 2006 |
Not kosher |
| 24 Jul 2006 |
It sucks to be unarmed in the Middle East |
| 19 Jul 2006 |
Unilaterally correct |
| 06 Jul 2006 |
In the United States of America, in the 21st century... |
| 04 Jul 2006 |
די שטערן-באַצירטע פאָהן |
| 02 Jul 2006 |
Triangulate around the flag |
| 30 Jun 2006 |
So close |
| 29 Jun 2006 |
The happiest atheists in Oklahoma |
| 28 Jun 2006 |
Pluralism and hypocrisy |
| 23 Jun 2006 |
Life --- art |
| 31 May 2006 |
Well, that explains a lot |
| 21 Mar 2006 |
In the interest of balance... |
| 14 Mar 2006 |
A tale out of school |
| 06 Mar 2006 |
Homeland meta-security |
| 06 Mar 2006 |
Fight fiercely, Harvard |
| 25 Feb 2006 |
Family-values news of the day |
| 24 Feb 2006 |
Blasphemy in the UK |
| 21 Feb 2006 |
Your Senator is underpaid |
| 04 Feb 2006 |
Sympathy for the Borg |
| 21 Jan 2006 |
Annals of media consolidation |
| 03 Jan 2006 |
Ten words |
| 28 Dec 2005 |
If only Don Adams were alive to see this |
| 28 Dec 2005 |
Dang, I’m in the wrong line of work |
| 12 Dec 2005 |
¡Huevón! |
| 09 Dec 2005 |
Just because it’s “faith-based” doesn’t mean it’s based on your faith |
| 30 Nov 2005 |
God bless us, every one, with a clue |
| 06 Nov 2005 |
I have this great idea for a story… |
| 02 Nov 2005 |
Wanted: The Gerald Ford Amendment |
| 02 Nov 2005 |
A song that could have been written for Judge Alito |
| 28 Jul 2005 |
Is there a right to speak on double super-secret background? |
| 01 Jun 2005 |
Atlas Deconstructed |
| 26 Apr 2005 |
The case for a chaotic party |
| 15 Apr 2005 |
I am the ghost of tax forms yet to come |
| 22 Mar 2005 |
Priorities, priorities |
| 31 Dec 2004 |
Park it and Locke it |
| 22 Dec 2004 |
Holy grail, holy lawsuit |
| 21 Dec 2004 |
The Social Security non-crisis |
| 15 Dec 2004 |
Intellectual profitability |
| 18 Nov 2004 |
More on that “consultants who repeatedly lose” thesis |
| 16 Nov 2004 |
“Insanity is continuing to do the same things over and over again and expecting a different result.” |
| 15 Nov 2004 |
The cyan and the————- |
| 09 Nov 2004 |
The operation was a success, but the patient died |
| 04 Nov 2004 |
Lessons learned, lessons to be taught |
| 03 Nov 2004 |
What we are up against |
| 01 Nov 2004 |
My party is full of wimps |
| 21 Sep 2004 |
I’m John Kerry, and because of a conflict of interest, I can’t approve this message |
| 20 Sep 2004 |
Quick notes on the Killian-memo brouhaha |
| 09 Sep 2004 |
Time to fire up those credit cards, folks |
| 17 Aug 2004 |
Pointy-haired officers |
| 10 Aug 2004 |
Annals of peaceful coexistance |
| 02 Aug 2004 |
Last week: Democrats demonstrate media savvy. Next week: Sun rises in west. |
| 30 Jul 2004 |
“I love it when a plan comes together” |
| 13 Jul 2004 |
What to be afraid of |
| 23 Jun 2004 |
Copy. Right. |
| 09 Jun 2004 |
Learn from the masters |
| 03 Jun 2004 |
The libel of a thousand scratches |
| 14 May 2004 |
Priorities, priorities |
| 14 May 2004 |
An analogy you don’t see every day |
| 09 May 2004 |
Score one for Hillary |
| 07 May 2004 |
Same song, next verse |
| 05 May 2004 |
The good guys |
| 05 May 2004 |
Not just immoral, but incompetent |
| 23 Apr 2004 |
“Mistakes Were Made” |
| 15 Apr 2004 |
And they looked from pig to man, and from man to pig… |
| 15 Apr 2004 |
A timely thought |
| 01 Apr 2004 |
Bush to privatize national debt |
| 29 Mar 2004 |
Shorter Thomas Friedman II |
| 25 Mar 2004 |
What is “an integral part of the operating system?” |
| 25 Mar 2004 |
Shorter Thomas Friedman |
| 12 Mar 2004 |
Hoy todos somos madrileños |
| 09 Mar 2004 |
The following script is licensed to the Kerry campaign |
| 08 Mar 2004 |
Sue your doctor, go to blacklist |
| 05 Mar 2004 |
Not gonna happen |
| 26 Feb 2004 |
The ultimate insider-trading scandal |
| 25 Feb 2004 |
One cheer for slavery |
| 25 Feb 2004 |
A free tip to writers of all political stripes |
| 24 Feb 2004 |
Dubya’s Mardi Gras present to the gay community |
| 24 Feb 2004 |
Algebra, Al-Qaeda, what’s the difference? |
| 19 Feb 2004 |
You can run, but you can’t hide |
| 18 Feb 2004 |
Aspiring Presidential candidates, take note |
| 15 Feb 2004 |
Janet Jackson’s breast: a Marxist analysis |
| 10 Feb 2004 |
Why we fight |
| 06 Feb 2004 |
Vote early, vote three times |
| 04 Feb 2004 |
Dead men running, addendum |
| 03 Feb 2004 |
Dead men running |
| 29 Jan 2004 |
Simply no pleasing some people |
| 27 Jan 2004 |
The zeroth constituency |
| 26 Jan 2004 |
The four-ring circus |
| 23 Jan 2004 |
A victory for free trade |
| 22 Jan 2004 |
Third-rate electronic burglary |
| 19 Jan 2004 |
Deanophobiaphobia |
| 14 Jan 2004 |
I’m well-informed! Whod’a thunk it? |
| 09 Jan 2004 |
The Bush immigration plan: Potemkin populism, again |
| 08 Jan 2004 |
Remember, these are the people who run your country |
| 23 Dec 2003 |
What everyone else is too polite to say about Strom Thurmond |
| 22 Dec 2003 |
Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they bill 300 gold pieces an hour |
| 16 Nov 2003 |
Property and propriety |
| 04 Nov 2003 |
A legal disclaimer |
| 03 Nov 2003 |
Flat, but not too flat |
| 30 Oct 2003 |
Chazzerai |
| 23 Oct 2003 |
Once again, the chocolate ration has been increased |
| 16 Oct 2003 |
To serve and protect, and to guard money from harm |
| 16 Oct 2003 |
Mostly invulnerable |
| 07 Oct 2003 |
“Gentlemen do not read each other’s mail” |
| 02 Oct 2003 |
The mystery of the missing argument |
| 02 Oct 2003 |
One sentence that speaks volumes about this Administration |
| 02 Oct 2003 |
Bring ’em on |
| 24 Aug 2003 |
We’ve come a long way since Job |
| 22 Aug 2003 |
Peer-to-Palestinian-peer networking |
| 22 Aug 2003 |
Meanwhile, back in Afghanistan… |
| 08 Aug 2003 |
Save Adam’s marriage! |
| 08 Aug 2003 |
Life imitates B-movie |
| 03 Aug 2003 |
Saving the party from its saviors |
| 13 Jul 2003 |
I could have told him that |
| 09 Jul 2003 |
The whole world is fact-checking |
| 09 Jul 2003 |
Pulpits for sale |
| 02 Jul 2003 |
Save those quarters |
| 30 Jun 2003 |
A visionary community |
| 17 Jun 2003 |
Free markets for me, but not for thee |
| 13 Jun 2003 |
A cynic’s guide to the peace process |
| 30 May 2003 |
Thank you for your support, sucker |
