For a country founded on the idea that rights are inalienable and inherent from birth, weโve developed a high tolerance for conditional rights and conditional citizenship.
Matt TaibbiOur leaders know weโre turning into a giant ghetto and they are taking every last hubcap they can get their hands on before the rest of us wake up and realize whatโs happened.
Matt TaibbiObsessed with success and wealth and despising failure and poverty, our society is systematically dividing the population into winners and losers, using institutions like the courts to speed the process.
Matt TaibbiThe basic scam in the Internet age is pretty easy even for the financially illiterate to grasp. It was as if banks like Goldman were wrapping ribbons around watermelons, tossing them out fiftieth-story windows, and opening the phones for bids. In this game you were a winner only if you took your money out before the melon hit the pavement.
Matt Taibbi