Month October 2009

If bloggers ran the world, Chapter 437

Marc Cooper says, if bloggers ran the world, they would crowd out deeply important news like Helium Boy in the Balloon and replace it with boring stuff instead. God knows what they would do. Maybe something totally trivial like doing…

The direction of working-class populism

John Russo of the Center for Working-Class Studies details how populism increasingly is cutting across class and political boundaries. But the left hasn’t realized that yet and liberals too often side with corporatists while failing to realize that the Glenn…

Another Ralph Lauren disaster

Here’s how to do a reality check: are the hips about as wide as the shoulders? If not — photoshop. I believe it was Ralph Lauren who, when asked why he didn’t design clothes for size 14, said, “I’m not…