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. Amazon is investing billions to make next-day delivery standard, and same-day delivery an option for lots of customers. If it can pull that off… physical retailers will be hosed. –Slate Who, you?...
View ArticleMitt Romney vs. dead potted plant
It is not very easy to care about Mitt Romney. It’s a bit of a phenomenon, actually. It has proven almost impossible for most Americans to muster interest in this numbly rich, exceedingly bland...
View ArticleGod the insufferable jerk
I am delighted to report God still appears to be a bit of an unbearable twit. Petulant. Uptight. Whiny as a third-grader with recurring lice. How do we know? Because, against all deeper understanding...
View Article10 amazing truths you already suspected
(Volume VII! Part of on ongoing series started back in the bygone era of 2009) —————————————————————————————— Citizens! Lovers! Are you ready? (1) If the migrating sand hill cranes are to be believed –...
View ArticleWhy won’t Obama step up?
Is this not the plea? Has this not been our innermost wail, our collective hue and cry when we watch Obama sort of meekly, sort of halfheartedly go at it lo these past mostly so-so, only occasionally...
View ArticleSwing voters for fun and terror
Mitt Romney and his allies are […] hoping that burying President Obama in ads will give them a crucial edge on Election Day. Ad purchases in the presidential race doubled or in some cases tripled last...
View ArticleFrightened men love Mitt Romney
These are the facts you don’t want to know. This is the hard data that can make you cringe, that can despoil the soul and make you wonder at the sad state of the modern world, and gender politics, and...
View ArticleThe Great Obamagasm of 2012
I think I can perhaps speak for quite a large percentage of us when I say: Oh, thank God. I mean, truly. Knees down, palms together, offering a massive wave and slab and magnum champagne bottle full of...
View ArticleTwilight of the old white guys
This doesn’t mean it’s going to be easy. This doesn’t mean it’s going to be smooth or fun or make any sort of cohesive sense. Not by a long shot. And not for a long, long time. But across the board and...
View ArticleFour more years, oh thank God
Seekers! Heathens! Darlings of the new constituency! It’s Inauguration Week! You know what that means, right? That’s right: ridiculous, bordering on gratuitous, hell let’s just say it outright: fawning...
View ArticleTrump: No longer fun, now just terrifying
That headline isn’t exactly true. There’s still a fair amount of delight to be had watching the Republican Party disintegrate in the acid bath of its own devising. There’s still oceans of schadenfreude...
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