Post-Fourth (Red White and) Blues

Ah, nationalism! Pass me a heap of the greatest jello the world has ever seen, oh ye huddled masses in your amber waves of grain. Forget counter-insurgency–one cold and jiggly slurp of Aunt Ethel’s ambrosia salad and the Taliban would come whimpering into...

Ice, Ice Shoji

One of the biggest poisoners of Merkin politics is Some. Some are always getting in the way of the rest of us. And now Some are saying that jello, the Ramones and double-can hats are somehow anti-Merkin, just because leftward fellow travellers enjoy them together on a...

Tonight I'm Gonna Party Like It's 1989

From the “Nobody could have predicted” department: The gap between the wealthiest Americans and middle- and working-class Americans has more than tripled in the past three decades, according to a June 25 report by the Center on Budget and Policy...