Budget trip for the new year: Khirghizstan
Posted Mon, Jan 5, 6 a.m.
Our humorist offers a cheap alternative to last year's "staycation."
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Posted Mon, Jan 5, 6 a.m.
Our humorist offers a cheap alternative to last year's "staycation."
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Posted Sun, Dec 28, 3 p.m.
No time better than New Year's to do a dramatic makeover of one's tired brand.
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Posted Sun, Dec 21, 3 p.m.
The competition over catastrophizing couldn't come at a better time, and our author is one of the contestants.
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Posted Sun, Dec 14, 3 p.m.
Fortunately, a wonderful speculative bubble is right at hand, better than tulips. Think lemons on wheels.
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Posted Sun, Dec 7, 10:19 a.m.
Test your economics IQ against the worst predictors of our times.
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Posted Mon, Dec 1, 6 a.m.
Just a lecture a day for a month, and you'll get the drift.
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Posted Fri, Nov 28, 7 a.m.
Turns out the answer to how bad could the Sonics get is spelled O-K-L-A-H-O-M-A!
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Posted Mon, Nov 17, midnight
Hey, building materials are really expensive these days.
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Posted Sun, Nov 9, 7:11 p.m.
American is colorblind, especially with regard to birthplace.
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Posted Mon, Nov 3, midnight
It's the natural order of things!
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Posted Fri, Oct 24, 5:18 p.m.
John McCain's stimulus package would include a Sarah Palin shopping spree which would pump $375 billion into the economy. Or at least it ought to. Let's try it on.
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Posted Mon, Oct 13, 8:57 p.m.
Let's not forget the Department of Homeland Security during these trying times.
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Posted Sun, Sep 28, 2 p.m.
The MacArthur Foundation names 25 people who, together, could probably get us out of this mess.
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Posted Sun, Sep 21, 8 p.m.
Other people's smarts will only get you so far. Our mind-numb humorist explores the limits of anti-elitism.
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Posted Sat, Sep 20, midnight
Make-believe politics is too dangerous to leave in the hands of a novice. So a theater professional steps onto the stage. Her platform: Make-believe you can believe in.
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Posted Sun, Sep 14, 7 p.m.
But never being wrong isn't easy.
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Posted Sat, Sep 13, midnight
The masculine, populist, Old West spectacle that is Alaska Gov. Palin.
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Posted Mon, Sep 8, noon
Through intense psychotherapy, our humorist discovers he wasn't vetted as a child — and the damage of that negligence is all too evident.
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Posted Sun, Aug 31, 8 p.m.
That seems to be a virtue everyone can agree on this campaign season. So let's define what that means.
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Posted Sat, Aug 23, 4 a.m.
Our humor writer shares the top ten jokes he's collected in a not very funny city.
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If it rains, please no umbrellas. If it's cold, please no Cutty Sark. If weak of bladder, tough luck.
MOREPosted Mon, Dec 22, 4 p.m. 2008
Our author, a spelling champ in her youth, tries to explain across the generational divide
MOREPosted Sat, Dec 6, noon 2008
An inspired evening of imaginary dances, starring such people as George Bush, Greg Nickels, and Hank Paulson.
MOREPosted Fri, Oct 17, 2:30 p.m. 2008
Today's roundup includes bitter endorsements, big builder groups, and a reference to Alfred E. Newman.
MOREPosted Fri, Apr 25, 5 a.m. 2008
Consecrate a Scandinavian-American in the spirit of Obama-mania and footlight a contradiction: the Audacity of Pessimism.
MOREPosted Wed, Mar 26, 3 p.m. 2008
On Monday night I went to see Brett Morgen's Chicago 10, an animated/snatches-of-newsreel documentary on the 1968 Democratic National Convention riots and subsequent Chicago Seven conspiracy trial (the filmmaker rounded the seven up to ten to include attorneys Bill Kunstler and Leonard Weinglass as well as Black Panther leader Bobby Seale).
MOREPosted Fri, Mar 14, 5 a.m. 2008
It happened twice in 2007 and again this past February: A journalist asked my age for a news item. No matter that youth is irrelevant in a meritocracy. Age has emerged as one of those nervy, reflexive questions that only third graders and professional scribblers are comfortable asking.
MOREPosted Wed, Dec 12, 12:20 a.m. 2007
Barack Obama was in town last night. He did two gigs for the hip at $100 and $250 a head, and one for the rich, in the Highlands, at $2,300 per. I attended the latter. I support Barak because he:
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