America is a country that has been skating for ages on its unparalleled ability to look marvelous on the outside.
From Matt Taibbi
The NFL, sadly, has a fatal environmental problem: It kills its workers.
Capitalism is a system for determining objective value.
Sarah Palin is a symbol of everything that is wrong with the modern United States. As a representative of our political system, she's a new low in reptilian villainy, the ultimate cynical masterwork of puppeteers like Karl Rove.
One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas.
Since the end of the Cold War, America has been grasping left and right for an identity.
America has two national budgets, one official, one unofficial.
I actually never thought that Barack Obama was anything but a typical Democratic party politician, which to me meant that he was probably in bed with Wall Street.
For the broadcast business to be successful, viewers need to be not merely interested in our political melodramas, they have to be in an absolute state about them - emotionally invested in the outcome and frightened not to watch what happens next.
The problem with the Tea Party is that it's been used in a way that scares people into supporting an agenda that's counter to their own interests.
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