Three cheers for the mortgage interest deduction!
By • Aug 16,2009

Twitter will vanquish every tyrant

Jon Last sharply questions the Twitter-euphoria generated by recent events in Tehran. In spite of rose-tinted predictions that historians would celebrate Twitter’s liberation of Iran and the beginning of a...

By • Aug 14,2009

Sigh

For reasons I can’t quite describe, this story about people cutting back on spending (or to be more precise, what people aren’t cutting back on) infuriated me: “I’m not giving...

By • Aug 13,2009

Woodstock Nostalgia

If I see one more self-indulgent baby-boomer “Hey, remember when we were awesome” piece about the 40th anniversary of Woodstock I’m blowing my brains out. Dear lord: When will these...