Peggy Noonan Is Having a Breakdown of Some Sort
Peggy. Dear Peggy. Peggy—are you okay?
Here's a Full-Page Ad in Today's Wall Street Journal Denying Genocide
Today’s print edition of the Wall Street Journal contains the following ad:
Are You Enough of an Asshole to Buy This Building?
The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday on an exciting New York City real estate offering: For $22 million, someone can buy a 20-unit apartment building in Brooklyn Heights to use as their very own single-family dwelling. Are you that person? That is to say, are you a monstrous asshole, who would like to make…
Donald Trump Writes Op-Ed for Wall Street Journal, Is Mysteriously Coherent All of a Sudden
An op-ed appeared as if by magic in The Wall Street Journal this morning. And though the article bore Donald Trump’s name and espoused Donald Trump’s beliefs, few sets of words have sounded less like Donald J. Trump.
Yale Classmate Claims to Have Pranked the Shit Out of Ben Carson With Fake Psychology Exam
On Friday, the Wall Street Journal cast doubt on a story candidate Ben Carson was told about himself in his 1990 autobiography involving a fake psychology test. Now, BuzzFeed News reports, it would seem that Carson was indeed the victim of a hoax—just not the hoax that he thought.
Theranos: Okay, Fine, We'll Release Data to Prove Our Blood Tests Work
Theranos, a $9 billion Silicon Valley startup that says it can run a full range of lab tests using mere drops of blood instead of whole vials, came under fire this month after the Wall Street Journal reported the vast majority of the company’s tests were run on traditional machines, not groundbreaking new technology.…
Making Banks Safer Will Make Banks Less Safe, Warns Evil Plutocrat
Steven Schwarzman, the private equity billionaire and human PR disaster who once compared raising taxes on the rich to Hitler’s invasion of Poland, has some thoughts on how to prevent the next financial crisis. What would you guess they are?
You Won't Believe What Wall Street Journal Readers Think About "Dunks"
Recently, the readers of the esteemed Wall Street Journal were given an opportunity to share their opinion on “dunking,” the high-flying activity that has become all the rage of the basketball world.
Missing WSJ Reporter’s Body Discovered in New Jersey River
David Bird, the 55-year-old Wall Street Journal reporter who mysteriously disappeared 14 months ago, was found dead on Thursday. Local authorities tell NBC News and the Associated Press that two men came across Bird’s remains while canoeing in the Passaic River in Morris County, New Jersey.
Gleeful WSJ Reporter Takes Hilarious Tour of Rikers Island
So you're given a guided tour of a prison-complex-cum-nightmare-chamber where beatings are frequent and inmates die without medical care. What do you do? Pull out the iPhone and fire up Twitter—it's time for some laffs, baby.
Bad Man: "I am Not Sorry the CIA Waterboarded"
Bret Stephens, the deputy editorial page editor for the Wall Street Journal and recipient of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary, is a fundamentally bad person, as he explains in his newspaper column today.
The Amazing Attempt to Blame the Internet for Everything
In recent weeks, several respected magazines, their publishers, and writers have fallen prey to various journalistic malfeasance and scandals. Who is to blame? Internet boogeymen, of course.
Imagine How Stressful Owning an Enormous Mansion Must Be
Sure, keeping your crummy first-floor apartment tidy is tough when you're working two jobs just to make rent, but imagine if you had a mansion with a swimming pool and a two-level movie theater. Don't you think that would be harder? Your antique car collection isn't going to wash itself!
The Wall Street Journal will celebrate its 125th anniversary tomorrow by publishing a special "The Future of Everything" edition with essay contributions "from Morgan Stanley C.E.O. James P. Gorman [and] pop star Taylor Swift." It will be wrapped in a copy of the paper's 1889 inaugural issue.
Wall Street Journal Unfamiliar With America's Pastime
The opinion section of the Wall Street Journal, bastion of virile American traditionalism, wanted a metaphor for how thoroughly President Obama had been humiliated by the Supreme Court's limitation on recess appointments. You know what is really humiliating? When there's a sports contest and one sports-person fails to…
"Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many," write Richard Cheney and Liz Cheney in the Wall Street Journal, describing a "willfully blind" foreign policy leading to "thousands of slaughtered Iraqis." They mean Barack Obama. Who else would they mean?
The Terrifying Domino Theory of Anti-Racism
This week, fifty U.S. senators signed a letter urging the Washington Redskins to change their name, because it is a "racial slur." Needless to say, conservatives are outraged. If you start doing away with racism, where does it end??
Karl Rove Is Not Even an Interesting Troll
The Wall Street Journal op-ed page is known as America's premier forum for right wing lunacy. Fine. At least that can be defended as interesting. What cannot be defended is a major newspaper donating space for blowjobs of ex-presidents by their own former advisors.
Here Is the Crazy Wall Street Journal Anti-Science Op-Ed of the Day
The Wall Street Journal's news content is the equal of any newspaper in America. The Wall Street Journal's op-ed page is a den of right wing groupthink and delusion unsurpassed in its potential to embarrass the non-lunatics at the paper.
WSJ Columnist Offers the Dumbest Analogy Ever to Excuse Campus Rapes
James Taranto is what we in the journalism business, ensconced as we are in our industry lingo, call a "fucking moron." Yet, by virtue of his position as a tastemaker on the Wall Street Journal's op-ed pages, it's worth asking how he spelunked today into his latest, lowest muddy crevice of misogyny.
