Seizing The Nation’s “Pirates And Their Environs” Issue
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
Hey and welcome back to Thursday, but more urgently, welcome back to Magazines. (Last week there was a highly frustrating situation involving your Wonkette intern’s personal computer, sunflower seed shells, and several failed technologies.) But no matter: onwards to The Nation., which you’ll recall has been on our radar since that time we had to talk about The American Prospect as if we wanted to do that all along. Now, however, the time has come to read The Nation, which despite running a full two (2) articles on pirates have decided to go with a Rupert Murdoch meta cover image instead of, oh, I don’t know, actual pirates attacking ships? MORE »











THE NATION HAS A SEX COLUMN: For more than three centuries, The Nation has defined “American Erotica” with its articles about public policy or whatever. But now it has a
William F. Buckley Jr., founder of conservative ideas and delightful sailor,
Who here uses Facebook? Uh huh, that’s what I thought, pretty much all of you. Guess what? You’re all going to fucking die. Or that’s what The Nation says in an article they just 