Posts Tagged ‘Asshole Republicans’
In which The Gay Recluse scores selected opinion pieces in The Times. Paul Krugman/Betting the Bank The Short Version: Economically, we’re fucked. In his words: “I’m more concerned that despite the extraordinary scale of Mr. Bernanke’s action — to my knowledge, no advanced-country’s central bank has ever exposed itself to this much market risk — […]
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Tags: Asshole Men of Either Gender, Asshole Republicans, David Brooks, Elliot Spitzer, John McCain, Midlife Crisis, Paul Krugman, Recession, The Federal Reserve, The New York Times
In which The Gay Recluse wonders if Deborah Solomon thinks we’re impressed. (Because we’re not.) Usually we skip Deborah Solomon’s weekly interview in the Sunday Magazine, in which the notoriously harsh and arrogant New York Times critic tersely interrogates a publicity hound hawking a useless book about the latest nonsense du jour. But this week […]
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Tags: Asshole Republicans, Deborah Solomon, Gawker, Homophobia, New Media, Old Media, Rick Perry, Stereotypes, Texas, The Gays, The New York Times, The Straights
On the Extinction of Golf
In which The Gay Recluse ponders the dinosaurs. In today’s New York Times, in a shocking piece that has vaulted all the way to number one on the “Most Popular” chart, we learn that golf is on the way out; declining in a popularity, with too many courses built in the 90s, it’s no longer […]
Filed under: Dissonance, Memory, Resignation, The London Eye, The Times | Leave a Comment
Tags: Asshole Republicans, Extinction, Fifty Dollars, Forest, Golf, Golf Balls, Sledding, Tiger Woods, Woods