Populism In a Nutshell, Again
This is a pretty minor story for anyone outside of Florida’s 19th district, Congress-critter-wise. But I want to briefly touch on it because it underscores one of the inherent problems I’ve been talking about...
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Great Moments In Corporate PR History
Just a quick tip to all of you young, budding entrepreneurs out there. Probably best if your corporate holiday giving program doesn’t make headlines that read like this:
The Real Healthcare Crisis, Part III: Telling Stories
Much of what we talk about when we talk about healthcare are the stories we choose to tell. Before we can solve this country’s healthcare crisis, it will be important for us to recognize this.
Be the boss of me! — or, what should Tod Kelly write about next?
Like a bad 80s-cover wedding band, I am now taking requests.
Defending Richard Cohen
Lovers and haters both are defending Richard Cohen’s eye-raising and seemingly racist Washington Post column. What is needed, the defenders say, is context, a more generous reading, and a retroactive editing of a few poorly chosen words. Tod Kelly does just that.
What’s the Difference Between Richard Cohen and John Derbyshire?
Tod Kelly argues that there’s only one real difference: NRO was willing to part ways with Derbyshire for his embarrassingly offensive racism, while the Washington Post seems to be OK with Cohen’s.
Ideology Is The Enemy: The Competing Cancers
On average, men wait significantly longer for prostate cancer surgery than women do for breast cancer surgery – and a lot of people are calling foul. The lesson to be learned from this much ballyhooed statistic? That more and more, ideology is forcing us to choose narrative over data. Tod Kelly explains.
A Risk Manager’s Take on the Richie Incognito Scandal
Is the NFL’s hazing culture legal? If not, would changing that culture be the end of the NFL, as so many are now claiming? Tod Kelly puts on his risk manager hat and looks at the Richie Incognito debacle.
Take Two Red Pills, Call Me In the Morning: The Sudden and Surprising Rise of the Men’s Rights Movement
As it turns out, at-risk men really do need a men’s rights movement. They just might not need the one they have. From Tod Kelly, a companion piece to the men’s rights movement story on The Daily Beast.
Oh, for fish sakes…
Is there some kind of arcane Senate rule where you are allowed to have a large muscular man named Sven whack an especially deserving Senate member repeatedly over the head with a dead mackerel...
A Bloggy Puttanesca: Now with Government Shutdowns, Tea Parties, Trucker Protests and Confederate Flags!
Quick thoughts on the continued government shutdown, this weekend’s Trucker Protest and Veteran’s March, the Washington Redskins, the Confederate flag, and the true meaning of populism.
On Obamacare and the Real U.S. Healthcare Crisis, Part I: A Look In The Rearview Mirror
The US healthcare system is about to radically change, whether or not Obamacare stands. Exactly how it’s going to change, and the degree to which that change will be good or bad for the country, is a choice we still need to make. Before we can make that choice, however, we need to understand how we got here in the first place.
Insurance 101: Obamacare Edition
Later this week I’ll be posting an argument that is against Obamacare but for healthcare reform. Consider this post reference material you’ll need to know for that post.
The 10 Biggest Lies Being Told About the Government Shutdown
If you’ve been listening to cable news, talk radio or your local Republican Congressman talk about our current government shutdown, chances are that much or all of what you’ve heard is a lie. Here is a list of the ten biggest whoppers being floated today.
Conor’s latest post is something of a paradox…
It’s such a damn fine argument against comments sections that I suspect it would drive some damn interesting conversations in the comments section. (It’s also a damn fine read, as is his McSweeney’s piece...
BONUS: Monday Trivia #133 [Burt Likko wins!]
Second Bonus Trivia Question: Continuum, Evolution, Here’s to the Ladies, Into the Light, No More Drama, Solitaire, Soon, Soul In the Horn, Step by Step, This Beautiful Life. This is not an exhaustive list.
An Art Review Becomes Itself a Work of Art
Via The Dish and Vimeo comes a video montage that moves past fan-fidling and transcends into something singularly marvelous.
Bad political ads: WTF? Edition
Here’s a pretty amazing cross-polanization of two subjects I write about; one I feel compelled to write about because seeing it makes me cringe so (the GOP further alienating the women’s vote) and the...
California Dreaming: A Look at How the Right-Wing Media and Republican Establishment are Conning Their Own Senior Citizens – Literally
The Chair of Citizens United teams up with conservative news sites to offer Republican senior citizens the right-wing version of the Nigerian prince scam.
Thursday Night Bar Fight #15: It’s a trap!
Imagine the classic line, “When I left you, I was but the learner. Now I am the master.” Now imagine it being said by Charles Nelson Reilly. Or Bill Cosby. Or Shatner. You choose.
