Lily Salter's Blog, page 1088
June 5, 2015
Rick Perry’s cartoon country/rap mashup: Is this ridiculous song the key to his campaign?
Does this new mashup mean the GOP has left its race-baiting Southern Strategy behind forever?
Same swagger, but fewer painkillers: Rick Perry 2016 is (almost) no different than Rick Perry 2012
Will the "Texas Miracle" and general foreign policy raving do for Rick Perry what they didn't do four years ago?
“I wish we talked about ‘choices’ instead of ‘choice’”: A Texas abortion counselor on how to change the conversation about abortion
Even allies oversimplify by reducing the debate to “abortion on demand, without apology” vs. "safe, legal & rare"
Paul Krugman: Texas is a failed experiment in “reverse Robin-Hood” economic policy
Giving to the rich and brutalizing the poor is not, it turns out, a sound plan for economic growth
“It’s not the MSNBC, Fox BS — f*** this red/blue paradigm”: John Cusack unloads on the media, the right and corporate Democrats
The iconic actor hammers the New York Times, praises Snowden, doubts Obama (oh, and talks his new Beach Boys movie)
“Seinfeld’s” Jason Alexander apologizes to “Susan”
"I am so mad at myself for retelling this story in any way that would diminish her"
“The Koch brothers are more powerful than papal teaching”: Why Rick Santorum doesn’t care what the pope says about climate change
"The pope is focusing on morals," an expert tells Salon, "but not the morals that Rick Santorum wants"
The Jebbening is nigh: Bush will finally stop making a flagrant mockery of election law
Jeb Bush has been gleefully pushing the boundaries of campaign finance to raise unholy sums for his super PAC
Robert Reich: The Founding Fathers never wanted an aristocracy
The former secretary of labor argues that the federal government should raise -- and strengthen -- the estate tax
June 2, 2015
Men can have multiple orgasms: The little-known technique that could revolutionize your sexual experience
"Men and women are physiologically a lot more similar than people realize," argues sex educator Jack Johnston
