He knows his wife knows. So he ups and leaves for five days, doesn’t leave anybody in charge of the state, in case there’s an emergency…This is almost like: I don’t give a damn! Country’s going to hell in a handbasket. I ...]]> http://exiledonline.com/mark-sanford%e2%80%99s-twinkie-defense-%e2%80%9ci-cheated-on-my-wife-because-of-high-taxes%e2%80%9d/feed/ http://exiledonline.com/theyre-dead-thank-god/ http://exiledonline.com/theyre-dead-thank-god/#comments Sat, 27 Jun 2009 06:04:06 +0000 Eileen Jones http://exiledonline.com/?p=9988

I just saw an article headlined, “Michael Jackson Dead Too Soon at 50.” Dead too soon, you sadists? The more fitting headline, if you have any heart at all, is “Michael Jackson Dead Not a Moment Too Soon”! Because if ...]]> http://exiledonline.com/theyre-dead-thank-god/feed/ http://exiledonline.com/war-nerd-book-review-a-neocon-thriller-that-has-cool-lefties-turning-into-rabid-jew-hating-nazis-after-a-glass-of-wine/ http://exiledonline.com/war-nerd-book-review-a-neocon-thriller-that-has-cool-lefties-turning-into-rabid-jew-hating-nazis-after-a-glass-of-wine/#comments Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:58:38 +0000 Gary Brecher http://exiledonline.com/?p=9970

Summer Reading: Banquo’s Ghosts, by Richard Lowry and Keith Korman, Vanguard Press (2009), 352 pages.

You have to feel a little sorry for the two neocons who co-wrote Banquo’s Ghosts. The idea seems simple enough: a Tom Clancy-style ...]]> http://exiledonline.com/war-nerd-book-review-a-neocon-thriller-that-has-cool-lefties-turning-into-rabid-jew-hating-nazis-after-a-glass-of-wine/feed/ http://exiledonline.com/desert-dispatch-meth-morons-and-murder-in-victorville/ http://exiledonline.com/desert-dispatch-meth-morons-and-murder-in-victorville/#comments Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:18:35 +0000 Yasha Levine http://exiledonline.com/?p=9840

This article first appeared on Vice’s blog.

Living in an abandoned neighborhood in an exurb way out on the edge of the California desert has its perks. There isn’t much in the way of ...]]> http://exiledonline.com/desert-dispatch-meth-morons-and-murder-in-victorville/feed/ http://exiledonline.com/war-nerd-irans-cedar-show-aka-dont-get-excited-the-protestors-are-just-letting-off-some-steam/ http://exiledonline.com/war-nerd-irans-cedar-show-aka-dont-get-excited-the-protestors-are-just-letting-off-some-steam/#comments Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:36:40 +0000 Gary Brecher http://exiledonline.com/?p=9771

It took me a while to figure out why everybody was nagging me to do a column on the Iranian elections. Everybody seemed to think it was all mysterious and world-shaking. Finally I realized, you’re all het up because every ...]]> http://exiledonline.com/war-nerd-irans-cedar-show-aka-dont-get-excited-the-protestors-are-just-letting-off-some-steam/feed/ http://exiledonline.com/subprime-the-second-coming-now-with-a-100-taxpayer-backed-guarantee/ http://exiledonline.com/subprime-the-second-coming-now-with-a-100-taxpayer-backed-guarantee/#comments Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:49:43 +0000 Yasha Levine http://exiledonline.com/?p=9740

This article first appeared on Alternet.org

Everything the real estate industry tells you is a hustle. No industry is more geared toward pumping up the positive and burying anything remotely negative, leaving you — and truth — out in ...]]> http://exiledonline.com/subprime-the-second-coming-now-with-a-100-taxpayer-backed-guarantee/feed/ http://exiledonline.com/the-taking-of-pelham-123-its-all-denzel/ http://exiledonline.com/the-taking-of-pelham-123-its-all-denzel/#comments Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:03:53 +0000 Eileen Jones http://exiledonline.com/?p=9712

Washington acting like a person

Director Tony Scott ought to put up a statue to Denzel Washington in his sculpture garden, then pray to it at least three times a day to express his gratitude for the ...]]> http://exiledonline.com/the-taking-of-pelham-123-its-all-denzel/feed/ http://exiledonline.com/elmer-fudd-nation-angelo-mozilo-his-300-million-slapstick-foils/ http://exiledonline.com/elmer-fudd-nation-angelo-mozilo-his-300-million-slapstick-foils/#comments Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:34:04 +0000 Mark Ames http://exiledonline.com/?p=9693 If I was an oligarch and I wanted to buy my spoiled little shit of a son a toy that would make him laugh and laugh for hours, I’d buy him a middle-class American. Because Americans are funny the way all dupes ...]]> http://exiledonline.com/elmer-fudd-nation-angelo-mozilo-his-300-million-slapstick-foils/feed/ http://exiledonline.com/the-ninth-life-of-a-berkeley-boomer/ http://exiledonline.com/the-ninth-life-of-a-berkeley-boomer/#comments Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:25:30 +0000 John Dolan http://exiledonline.com/?p=9604

He may be dead now, I don’t know. He should have been dead long ago, but these early boomers, born in California, have many lives. From some angles, Alex’s life was clear proof of what spoiled, invincible brats they were, ...]]> http://exiledonline.com/the-ninth-life-of-a-berkeley-boomer/feed/ http://exiledonline.com/the-hangover-people-say-its-really-funny/ http://exiledonline.com/the-hangover-people-say-its-really-funny/#comments Mon, 08 Jun 2009 06:07:13 +0000 Eileen Jones http://exiledonline.com/?p=9584

I’m supposed to be reviewing The Hangover here, but the problem is I saw it when hung over and can’t remember much of it. That’s what you call “irony.”

(Manhattans and red wine, if you must know.)

I’d heard that this movie ...]]> http://exiledonline.com/the-hangover-people-say-its-really-funny/feed/