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Poor Cuba

Which is apparently becoming overrun with assholes, and other uncivil gente.  This is according to Cubans themselves, including President Raúl Castro.  See here.  

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Should an Asshole be Fed Chairman?

I mean Larry Summers, who reportedly cost Harvard’s endowment 2 billion dollars, because of his over-confidence.  See here, for this: Summers, unduly impressed with his own economic credentials,...

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Asshole Justice

Berlusconi hoped to get off.  Instead, his conviction for tax fraud was upheld.  (Although, alas, he’ll finally do house arrest or community service instead of  jail time).  See, e.g., here. For his...

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Debate rages, Is A-Rod an Asshole?

I’m kidding.  Baseball fans seem quite certain that Yankee Alex Rodriquez is indeed an asshole. Plus, what with all the drugs and lying and arrogance, even that venereable institution of journalistic...

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Dennis Rodman, Patriot

I’m thinking Rodman is actually not a colossal ahole for praising and befriending Kim Jong-Un and publicly throwing the imprisoned American under the bus, all while cursing American officials, because,...

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More asshole justice

Larry Summers withdraws, and will not be Fed chairman, despite the backing of the most powerful man in the world.

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Ted Cruz is Not an Asshole

Or, rather, there is a gathering consensus to the contrary, it would seem, as Cruz takes a valiant stand for self-aggrandizement, at the risk of global economic meltdown.  A chorus of critics is...

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The Pope: “Heads of the church have often been narcissists”

This time not from the mouth of babes, but from God’s representative on Earth himself, Pope Francis, here: “Heads of the church have often been narcissists, flattered and thrilled by their courtiers…...

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Hope for Asshole Justice

For lack of support, Berlusconi has simply backed down in his plan to topple the Italian government (see Here).  If it can happen in Italy, could it possibly happen in the US, in the gov. shutdown/debt...

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Boehner, Sucker

Where the “sucker” is defined as one who fails to stand up to an asshole, on behalf of cooperative people (or him or herself), when this appropriate and necessary.  The sucker is thus complicit in the...

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Where the Always Sun Shines, and Not

Zach Dorfman offers a lovely discussion, sounding themes of dignity, in the LA Review of Books, here.  Here’s the first bit: YOU KNOW HIM, I PROMISE. He is difficult to avoid — especially, it seems, in...

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Dealing with Lance, the Asshole Surfer

  Here is Louisa Kamps, writing for Elle magazine (here): In his erudite and streetwise Assholes: A Theory (Doubleday), UC Irvine political philosophy prof Aaron James looks at the consequences of...

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“A god. … That’s who I think I am.”

Selected beauties from Kanye (see here, for the full compendium of 2013 foolishness).   “If I were to write my title like going through the airport and you have to put down what you do? I would...

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The Year In Assholes

2013 was a banner year in assholery—in no small part because of the breathtaking spectacle of Senator Ted Cruz.  But while it is never good when self-aggrandizing political entrepreneurs walk a country...

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As the saying, in Italian, goes…

“devi essere sempre più furbo degli altri per avere successo nella vita” (you have always to be  more clever than any other if you want to be successful).  The result in Italy, according to a helpful...

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