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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/ 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/

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/

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/