After eight seasons of “Dirty Jobs,” TV host Mike Rowe has seen it all — well, almost. He’s wrangled venomous snakes, cleaned up roadkill, tested shark suits, inspected sewers, embalmed corpses, and inseminated horses, among other atrocious gigs, but there’s one job he just won’t do. Many of the dirty jobs Mike has experienced are no doubt “disgusting, vile, putrid, soul-deadening, [and] horrific,” but they don’t compare to the dirtiest job of them all — being a politician. “Why didn't...
There are few things on the Biden administration’s long list of failures that so exemplify pure ineptitude as the rollout of the simplified Free Application for Federal Student Aid. Three months after finally launching, the Department of Education can’t stop messing it up. The latest error from the incompetent and bloated agency was a calculation […]
A few years ago, when James Carville was teaching at Louisiana State University, he heard that one of his students had gotten into the school of her dreams to work on an advanced degree. He wanted to toast her. “I get a $25 champagne and four plastic flutes,” he recalled, “and I said to the students: ‘All right. You are not going to get out of James Carville’s class unless you know how to properly open a bottle of champagne.’ “I said: ‘Here’s what you’re going to do. You don’t pop it like you...
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Are we living through the end times? Dorian Lynskey interrogates our insatiable appetite for doom - and asks why each generation is so drawn to the idea that they will be the lastIt is a sunny afternoon in Taormina, Sicily, and two wealthy couples on holiday are drinking Aperol spritz on a balcony overlooking the sea. Harper, who runs on anxiety and guilt, says she has trouble sleeping because of “everything that’s going on in the world”. Daphne, who runs on pleasure and denial, asks what she...
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Sen. Ted Cruz used his podcast last week to present his listeners with a scary sounding tale. To hear the Texas Republican tell it, the Biden administration “chartered flights” in order to “import 320,000 illegal aliens” into the United States. As the senator probably realized, the claims were wildly misleading, but that didn’t stop Cruz from sending out a fundraising appeal this week, under a “Biden is flying illegals into America” subject line. The message to donors read in part: That final...
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Republican sued last year by Stephen Richer, top Maricopa county official, after she lost her gubernatorial bid and lied about himKari Lake signaled on Tuesday that she will not contest claims that she lied about a top Arizona election official and defamed him, a significant legal concession from the Arizona Republican who has become one of the country’s most prominent election deniers.Stephen Richer, the top election official in Maricopa county, sued Lake, her campaign and an aligned Pac last...
A San Francisco judge has ruled that Apple must face a lawsuit accusing the company of negligence over the potential stalking risks created by its AirTags, Bloomberg reports. While the bulk of the roughly three dozen claims in the class-action suit were dismissed, US District Judge Vince Chhabria denied Apple’s bid to have the suit thrown out based on three plaintiffs’ claims alleging that “when they were stalked, the problems with the AirTag’s safety features were substantial, and that those...
Great curations from Jeremy Okai Davis and Morgan Ritter, and the upside down server case we all can't stop talking about. by Ashley Gifford Peterson Looking at this season of spring gallery shows, we are reminded that art is all at once political, speculative, and personal. At the top of our list are interesting curations: Jeremy Okai Davis presents work by his contemporaries at Nationale, and Morgan Ritter pairs up painstaking...
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