To the surprise of virtually no one, Courtier to the Elitists (the elitist class lets him pretend he’s one of them because of that purty way he uses his tongue) David Brooks is quite taken with Charles Murray’s “Oh Great. Now The Fucking White Trash Is Acting Like The Coloreds” : I’ll be shocked if [...]

Toilet-obsessed Rand Paul set off a metal detector at the Nashville airport this morning (possibly because he has too much iron in his poop) while on his way to attend a Forced Pregnancy rally (or as we call it: A Flock O’ K-Lo’s)  and, to continue the theme, he proceeded to lose shit having his [...]

One of the important things that we have learned from  Mitt Romney on this, his fifth attempt to land one of those sweet civil service job, is that corporations are people. It is true, in fact, that most corporations exhibit more lifelike or “human” qualities than Mitt Romney; something the engineers at the Tyrell Corporation [...]

Scenes from an abused billionaires support group: Jamie Dimon, the highest-paid chief executive officer among the heads of the six biggest U.S. banks, turned a question at an investors’ conference in New York this month into an occasion to defend wealth. “Acting like everyone who’s been successful is bad and because you’re rich you’re bad, [...]

Shorter Richard Epstein: Programs and policies such as unemployment insurance, minimum wage laws, collective bargaining, anti-discrimination laws, healthcare mandates, overtime laws, and family leave policies are totally preventing the job creators from creating a workers paradise. Actual Epstein quote: If [job] program participants do get jobs, they rarely lead to long-term employment. Another baleful consequence [...]

Blue-eyed sociopath Paul “350 Buck-Chuck“  Ryan was asked about the CBO report stating that top 1% (also known to Ryan as “my base”) are eating all of the cake and leaving only crumbs for The Poors and it’s getting worse. A Tuesday report by the Congressional Budget Office suggests that under conservative policies, wealthy are [...]

Arthur Laffer writing at the Wall Street Comfort the Comfortable, Afflict the Afflicted Journal: The whole purpose of a flat tax, à la 9-9-9, is to lower marginal tax rates and simplify the tax code. With lower marginal tax rates (and boy will marginal tax rates be lower with the 9-9-9 plan), both the demand [...]

  Shorter McMegan & Robin Hanson: The danger of Steven Jobs speech at Stanford is that, if everyone followed his advice, finding an adequate barrista who can make a passable latte would be simply exhausting and then I would have so much less time to share my brilliance with the world.  

It’s always helpful to remember the kind of people we’re dealing with on Wall St.: “We are Wall Street. It’s our job to make money. Whether it’s a commodity, stock, bond, or some hypothetical piece of fake paper, it doesn’t matter. We would trade baseball cards if it were profitable. I didn’t hear America complaining [...]

Oh Holy Shit. I don’t check my supersecret not-blogging email address (hawtnakedkjlopez@flaccid.com) for about two weeks and what to my wondering eyes should appear? This… Four, count’em , four different editions each with  special features specifically catering to whichever selfish greedhead gang you roll with. (And 62 Facebook “likes”!) You can choose from (and I’m [...]