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Taibbi: Perry ‘just kind of lost it’
Rolling Stone contributor Matt Taibbi says that Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry has “just kind of lost it.” Over the weekend, Perry gave an odd speech in New Hampshire that quickly went viral and caused some to suggest that he might be medicated or drunk. “When he felt like he…
Michele Bachmann’s Excellent Adventure
Matt Taibbi has an excellent profile up about Michele Bachmann, and why she's no laughing matter (not that this has ever stopped me). It's tempting to quote it at length, but then that would imply I had just the best parts, and really you should read the whole thing. Just…
Wall St. wives got a secret $220 million bailout from the Fed: report
A report in the latest edition of Rolling Stone magazine made waves Wednesday for revealing what it called a secret, roundabout bailout of $220 million, given to Wall Street wives by the U.S. Federal Reserve. “According to popular legend, we’re broke and in so much debt that 40 years from…
Ritalin would bring an end to blogging
Many of the ideas I get from blogging are due strictly to what is probably a low-grade, undiagnosed form of ADD. I’m constantly jumping back and forth between Google Reader, Twitter, and whatever long form articles I’ve pulled up to read. Seriously, if I want to just buckle down and…
Fmr. CNN journo: Attacks on Rolling Stone reporter make media look servile
Last week, CBS News Chief Foreign Correspondent Lara Logan blasted a Rolling Stone reporter whose article cost Gen. Stanley McChrystal his job as commander in Afghanistan. After Rolling Stone‘s Michael Hastings exposed inflammatory comments by McChrystal and his staff about President Barack Obama and the US government’s civilian leadership, Logan…
Bamboo Review: The Great Derangement
Reading Matt Taibbi’s despairing and darkly funny opus about American political lunacy in the days around the inauguration of a President whose major redeeming value, right now at least, is that he seems sane was an interesting experience. The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion…
Sanctity of Donuts Day
I got a lot of emails about this, and I sent them to Emily at RH Reality Check, and discovered she was already on it. But seriously, it’s worth spreading the news, because as weird as this story is, it reveals a lot about the anti-choice movement (and right wing…
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