Commentary - America's Future

By Sonny Bunch • Feb 26,2010

Shocker: Matt Taibbi's a dick

Via Jason Fagone, I came across this story about the rise and fall of a duo of American muckrakers — Mark Ames and Matt Taibbi — looking to make a...

By Sonny Bunch • Feb 25,2010

Olympic Pole Dancing

There I was, struggling to come up with something to blog about — seriously: I don’t care about health care reform or this damn summit — when BAM: Deadspin blogs...

By Sonny Bunch • Feb 25,2010

Ecological subtext in Psycho and Silence of the Lambs? Que?

Nestled in a New York Times piece about the liberal sensibilities of Participant Media is this odd little nugget: Like many of the better suspense thrillers, from “Psycho” to“Jaws” to...

By Sonny Bunch • Feb 24,2010

Was Joseph Stack a terrorist?

It seems that Matt Steinglass is on pretty much the same wavelength I am regarding the IRS plane bomber, Joseph Stack: So I think that on definitional grounds, you have...

By Sonny Bunch • Feb 24,2010

Teachers unions are the worst, cont.

The New York Times has what amounts to a follow up on the New Yorker’s examination of the NYC school system’s “rubber rooms,” the place where disciplined/ineffective teachers are sent...

By Sonny Bunch • Feb 23,2010

Gee, you know what else is really quotable? That Casablanca!

Via JVL comes this little nugget from Ezra Klein. And no, I’m not talking about his health care analysis — we all know I could give a fig about health...