Dick Polman
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Judging a man by the color of his suit
You’re on holiday, as am I, so we need not tarry long today. It will take us barely a minute to dispense with Suitgate. Ever ...
11 years ago
Republicans discover (again) that women don’t like them (shocking!)
Since we’re already jonesing for holiday weekend fun, let’s end August with a belly laugh: Republicans have just discovered, ...
11 years ago
The product rollout of Al Sharpton 2.0
It’s often said that Americans have a gift for reinventing themselves, for writing second acts in their lives, and these days Exhib ...
11 years ago
Exploiting Robin Williams in the name of bigotry
Robin Williams got an elegant farewell Monday night at the Emmy Awards, befitting who he was and what he accomplished. Hopefully, that tr ...
11 years ago
The Obama team sounds incoherent on ISIS
If you’re trying to decide how scary ISIS really is, and how we should deal with that extremist army, don’t bot ...
11 years ago
Ferguson fallout: The daunting odds of a meaningful dialogue about race
It was inevitable that the tragedy in Ferguson would prompt calls for a national conversation on race – just like in ...
11 years ago
The 19th-century poet William Wordsworth lamented, “The world is too much with us.” True that. It’s all too easy these ...
11 years ago
Ferguson is a ‘constitutional sinkhole’
I’m off the grid today – an August dog day, as it were – so rather than pretend that I can operate at full cognition, I ...
11 years ago
Obamacare, the incredible shrinking campaign issue
Back in the distant days of yore – circa 2013 – Republicans viewed Obamacare as the meatiest, juiciest issue of the ’14 campaig ...
11 years ago
Is Rick Perry more than a ham sandwich?
You just never know when politics is going to throw you a curveball. There was a joke going around that either Chris Christie or Scott Wa ...
11 years ago
Rand Paul is right about racial injustice and militarized cops
Like a stopped clock twice a day, Rand Paul occasionally gets it right. So let’s give him props for speaking out yesterday against ...
11 years ago