The Downward Spiral

HBO's John Oliver hit another one out of the park this past Sunday with a brilliant rant on municipal fines and the predatory private c...

In the past two days, two editorials were published that do a reasonable job of summing up some very disquieting new American political rea...

As our society just keeps on getting dumber and dumber, the bar for what constitutes a controversy just keeps on getting lower and lower. ...

It could happen to a more deserving group of corporate assholes : February was an ice-cold month for McDonald's, with same-store sales...

Okay, they're high schoolers, so I will cut them a little bit of slack : Today, in response to the Friday night killing of unarmed bla...

Here's a headline that made me chuckle: Dunkin Donuts Removing Possibly Dangerous Material from Product What, just one? I believe if ...

The two DOJ reports on the epic fuckery going on within the Ferguson, Missouri, criminal justice system ought to send a chill up the spine ...

At the time I wrote yesterday's post about the dangerous bubble blowing in new car lending, I hadn't yet seen this article from Wol...

I don't watch a lot of television, but when I do it usually isn't very long before I'm bombarded by the inevitable slew of new ...

Yes folks, it seems that yet another jaw-droppingly stupid political "scandal" is upon us. This one involves none other than Que...

Perhaps no prominent organization more perfectly reflects the decline and fall of American representative democracy than the Democratic Par...

Nevermind that we still have over 22 months yet to endure the presidency of the man once known as Hopey-Changey, the political heavy hitter...