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September 2019

September 23, 2019

Smart people saying smart things (9.23.19)

You'd be smart to listen to Kate Marvel, Zak Cheney-Rice, Damon Young, Michael Twitty, and...

April 2018

April 10, 2018

‘As It Is Written, There Are No Good Guys, No Not One’

"It's not a gun problem, it's a sin problem," is a popular slogan among gun-loving...

January 2018

January 01, 2018

Postcards from the class and culture wars (1.1.18)

"Has not God chosen the poor in the world to be rich in faith and...

December 2017

December 22, 2017

Hallelujah, everybody say cheese: The 2017 Christmas Keendex

Every year PNC Bank tallies the total cost of all the gifts in the "12...

October 2017

October 31, 2017

There’s a crack in the mirror and a bloodstain on the bed

The doorbell keeps ringing. "Trick or treat!" This is America, kid. We say "Merry Christmas."...

April 2017

April 19, 2017

Money, Hell, and ‘Kirk Drift’

That engagement may initially be hostile, but that hostility compels me to pay attention. It...

July 2016

July 01, 2016

As politically pure as a bystander’s clean hands

The surest way to lose at politics is to refuse to participate in it because...

March 2016

March 23, 2016

I search the world over for my angel in black

John Ehrlichman explains just what the Nixon administration intended when it launched the "War on...

February 2016

February 13, 2016

Life is a maze and love is a riddle

OK, I finally figured out what song that creepy "Always Submit to the Church Administration"...

February 12, 2016

American-style socialism (Do you wish to continue this transaction?)

The new law was a Good Thing. From now on, banks could no longer charge...

January 2016

January 14, 2016

By Grabthar’s hammer, by the suns of Worvan …

RIP Alan Rickman. Now I will never get my wish that he would one day...

November 2014

November 14, 2014

State lotteries and truth in advertising

State lotteries are exempt from truth-in-advertising laws. And this, I think, offers some promise for...

October 2013

October 03, 2013

Hell and soteriology Part 1: Bill O’Reilly’s accidental insight

Candida Moss does not euphemize or equivocate about what the text says that Jesus said...

July 2012

July 31, 2012

Boycotting the Once-ler

So like everyone else, you've been buying Thneeds from the Once-ler for years without ever...

February 2012

February 29, 2012

Banks behaving badly

Cora Currier: "Banks Colluding with Insurers to Rip Off Homeowners, Lawsuit Alleges" A federal judge...

February 23, 2012

Bank-transfer season 2012

The New Bottom Line project says "Bank Transfer Season 2012 Kicks Off in San Francisco":...

January 2012

January 16, 2012

Dives and Abraham: Martin Luther King Jr. demolishes Mitt Romney’s talk of ‘envy’

The Rude Pundit points us to the sermon the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered...

December 2011

December 23, 2011

‘But we cannot have both’

Ian Ayres and Aaron S. Edlin are pushing for a Brandeis tax based on maintaining...

December 22, 2011

The Liberation of Ebenezer Scrooge (and possible liberation of Jamie Dimon)

The Consumerist brings us the latest in a wave of recent stories about a mystery...

December 18, 2011

Congress cuts LIHEAP — because giving billions to the rich is no fun unless you also get to screw the poor

Susie Madrak notes that the shutdown deal in Congress cuts winter heating aid for low-income...

December 08, 2011

Ludwig von Mises smacks down latest religious-right talking point

Right-wing hero Ludwig von Mises approaches the Jesus of the Bible the same way that...

December 01, 2011

Banks behaving badly

Matt Stoller: "Mortgage Servicers: Getting Away with the Perfect Crime?" The bad behavior is so...

November 2011

November 29, 2011

An index for the 99%: 12 items of Christmas with the family will cost you $79.81

The Consumerist reports on an annual holiday tradition from PNC Financial: According to the folks...

November 14, 2011

The search for new ways to take our money

Banks used to take more than $36 billion a year from their customers. They just...

November 03, 2011

Looking beyond their needs to determine fault

It's been several days and I'm still a bit gobsmacked by the perverse audacity of...

November 01, 2011

#OccupyTheTrailerParks

Doug Curlee of The Santee (Calif.) Patch brings us the story of what every manufactured-home...

October 2011

October 29, 2011

Smart people saying smart things

John Quiggin: "Keeping the state out of your bedroom" If you really want personal freedom,...

October 28, 2011

There’s absurd, then obscene, then Paul Ryan

"Chutzpah" is classically exemplified by the man who murders his parents and then pleads for...

October 26, 2011

Another way the rich are different

Here is another big difference between the 1 percenters and everyone else. They get paid...

October 25, 2011

Unemployed in ‘The Affluent Society’

I read John Kenneth Galbraith's The Affluent Society more than 15 years ago in an...