Hopey and Changey: Iran's New President and the Vatican's New Pope
A good way to routinely bum yourself out is to set "Google News" as your Internet home page. But last night, something magical happened on that usual grid of gloom: The top stories were good news: Pope Francis and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, the elderly men recently chosen to lead their respective communities,…
Seattle Blogger Wages War On Shameless, Filthy Middle Class
Charles Mudede, a blogger for the The Stranger, the alternative weekly that serves cutesy raintown Seattle, wrote a post today about people who were robbed by a fraud i-banker and were understandably upset about it. And his post is insane?
ACORN Dissolves
ACORN is dead. Long live a bunch of unaffiliated local offices that do the stuff ACORN did but without the national lobbying arm that occasionally convinced lawmakers to do nice things for poor people. That'll teach them to humor a douchey college kid asking silly questions.
New Depression Trendwatch: Suddenly It's Cool to Live Like a Homeless Person
The New York Times continues its endless parade of recession porn today, this time with a story about how some weird people like being poor.
'New York': Rich Is The New Poor
In their reliably cringe-inducing Money Issue (uh, how is this week different from all other weeks, again?), New York Mag explores what life is like on both ends of the economic spectrum here — you know, the rich end and the insanely pornographically rich end. But they do make an effort to include an example of what…
Were You Sent from Heaven, Magazine? Because You've Been Running Through My Mind All Day!
We remember this legendary guy in high school who could make time with any girl using the exact same line. Eventually some of the girls started to complain that it was a cheap trick and somehow shamefully manipulative, but we remember thinking at the time that if it ain't broke, why fix it?
