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Friday, March 1st, 2013

What is a Woman?

After re-reading Esquire’s 2009 essay ‘What is a Man‘ recently, we decided it was about time to figure out what a woman was: A woman believes that being prepared for the day includes remembering to carry chapstick.  A woman dislikes her natural love for sleeping in late. For some reason, a woman always looks great in

Friday, November 30th, 2012

Mired By Competing Fiscal Disaster Metaphors, Lawmakers Unable to Proceed with Budget Negotiations

  As the Bush tax breaks set to expire and the $1.2 trillion sequester of automatic across-the-board cuts hedge closer in December, Congressional leaders have decided to delay all budget negotiations until a bipartisan compromise can be...

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012

The Real American Economy: Red and White, Mostly Blue

Every ‘Shooting Star’ must, eventually, fall — and what the American Economy experienced after the world’s most publicly scrutinized bailout happened to be no different. Four trifling years later, the American Economy sits down with Shruti Sehgal...

Thursday, April 26th, 2012

Upping her Street Cred, Sarah Palin Gets Fresh with Maureen Dowd

After feigning disinterest and complete oblivion to the matter for four years, Sarah Palin finally decides to confront NYT Columnist Maureen Dowd in an Open Letter to the Editor, addressing Dowd’s various public attacks on her since...