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His Inanity Bubbleth Over
We’re nearing the endgame of a tumultuous and anxiety-inducing primary season, and the pundits are feeling feisty. You can’t blame them, really. Campaign ’16 has been an unrelieved study in the terrible folly of confident campaign prognostication. Remember anointed ...

Turd-Farty? Bring It On.
When I was a kid I was addicted to Mad Libs. I would fill in every blank with some variation of my two favorite words: “toilet” and “fart.” If the prompt asked for an adjective, I would write “toilety.” For adverbs, I found ...

Daily Bafflements
April 25, 2016
• Thou shalt not decorate thy megachurch with a tacky water feature! So reads the epistle of Baffler senior editor Chris Lehmann to the Americans, or rather his new book The Money Cult, published by Melville House next month. American churches have ...

Daily Bafflements
April 22, 2016
• Snapchat is under fire for a “Bob Marley” filter designed to allow users to style themselves after the reggae great, blackface and all. Even through the 4/20 haze (yes, that’s why the company decided to memorialize Marley in the first place), users were ...

Unexecuted Ideas of an Irish Republic
April 22, 2016
There is still no government in Ireland, more than nine weeks after the general election knocked down the ruling coalition that had imposed Troika-mandated austerity. This means that Enda Kenny, after losing the first vote that would have re-elected him Taoiseach (prime ...

Daily Bafflements
April 21, 2016
• Brooklyn Bafflers: Poet Jennifer Nelson will be reading tonight at the Brooklyn Public Library. Two of Nelson’s weird, brilliant poems appeared in Baffler no. 29, where she reminded us “It’s crude to claim our technology / moralizes that of the past: ...

Hillary’s Courtiers
You could almost hear the great sigh of relief heaving across cable TV’s green rooms and the news-curating portals of our media nation: sure, the Republican side of Campaign ’16 continues to resemble a dumpster fire on the set of Mad Max: Fury Road, but the Democrats, bless ...

Daily Bafflements
April 20, 2016
• Happy 4/20 everyone! Since Donald Trump just won the New York primary, this might be an opportune moment to go hot box the Trump Tower. To be clear, we’re not endorsing this idea per se, but we would laugh heartily at the videos that came out of ...

Daily Bafflements
April 19, 2016
• Last year Procter & Gamble harnessed the magical power of deodorant in their “Mean Stinks!” bullying campaign, as documented by Baffler managing editor Lindsey Gilbert in issue 28. Now that ever-loving, ever–community focused corporation is taking ...

The Happy Mill
April 19, 2016
Workers of the world, cheer up! Researchers from the World Health Organization, aided by an international team of scientists, have crunched the numbers, and the results are in: relieving anxiety and depression is good for the bottom line. A $147 billion investment over the next ...

Daily Bafflements
April 18, 2016
• Here’s Tom Frank in The Guardian, on the recent slurry of articles claiming that Bill Clinton’s draconian, racist 1994 crime bill didn’t cause mass incarceration: In her “Bad Behavior” column, Natasha Vargas-Cooper wrote about this year’s Supreme Court ...