sarah palin
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The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #26: Love Is the Ultimate Trip
My day job is driving on the ride sharing platform, Lyft. Several years ago, I retired from teaching school to devote myself to writing and painting and lived off savings until I couldn’t. Four years ago, I started driving Lyft…
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The Rumpus Interview with Sara Benincasa
Comedian Sara Benincasa opens up about her latest book Real Artists Have Day Jobs, adjusting to success, Venn-diagramming love, and the loss of Morley Safer.
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Woops, Says Azealia Banks (Again)
After reading a spoof article where Sarah Palin was quoted as being a tad more incendiary than usual, Azealia Banks suggested via tweet that the former vice presidential candidate be sexually assaulted in a whole bunch of ways. Palin reacted by…
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Sarah Palin, the Transcendentalist
From Lincoln’s famous love of quoting Shakespeare to George Bush’s prodigious reading habits, American politics have always mingled with the literary pantheon. Now that Sarah Palin is back in the news for her endorsement of Donald Trump, Jeet Heer traces…
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The Believer‘s Fall Bounty
This month’s Believer Magazine has got a cornucopia of fall’s literary treats and some are available in full on their website. Here’s a review of Andrew Foster Altschul’s Deus Ex Machina, the Rumpus’ Book Club selection back in December. If…
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Accidental Political Poets
Poetry is the literary art form that can most readily adapt the grammatically-fraught, political commentaries of Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann, apparently. Michael Solomon compiled and edited a bunch of Sarah Palin-isms in I Hope Like Heck: The Selected Poems…
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The Rumpus Book Club Interviews Andrew Foster Altschul
The Rumpus Book Club talks with Andrew Foster Altschul about Deus Ex Machina, Reality TV, the loss of truth, and what it’s like to visit a porn set in the name of research.
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Lie to Me
The latest memoir of the 2008 Presidential campaign is a fake book about fake events by a fake political operative.
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Someone is going to get shot
The “debate” over health care reform in this country has gotten out of hand. If you’ve followed this story at all over the last week, you’ve been treated to reports of disruptions and protests at Congressional town halls, comparisons of…
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A Found 1969 Editorial on the Moon Landing
Mumpsimus was digging through his attic and found an old editorial his grandfather wrote for The Needham Times after the moon landing. Funny how a forty year old opinion piece is a million times more enlightened than Sarah Palin’s recent op-ed…
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Morning Coffee
The most amazing website on the Internet. (might want to turn the sound down on your computer, NSFW) Perhaps the real question here is why was Sarah Palin signing a baby? Judge Sotomayer v. 1977 Kansas City Royals. Watch people…
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Funny America: THE TOP TEN COMEDIC NEWS STORIES OF 2008
Okay. Just so you know: the Top Ten Comedic News Stories of the Year are as different from the Top Ten Legitimate News Stories of the Year as a tarantula infested banana tree is from a small paper bag of…