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Paid Not to Play: Stone Cold, Big Pharma, and the Heavyweight Vig

Posted 1 year, 11 months ago

How do you win a fight before it begins?  If you’re The White House or World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), you pay off the biggest guy on the other side not to step into the ring.

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Evan Bayh: The Doink The Clown of Democratic Politics

Posted 1 year, 11 months ago

Evan Bayh: the Doink The Clown of Republican Politics

You remember Doink the Clown, right?

Doink The Clown is the quintessential placeholder in professional wrestling of the last fifteen years.  He wrestles competently but does his major character work as a shill for bigger stars.  He doesn’t win titles and he doesn’t lose significant matches.  His career continues to this day, making no waves, the funny-looking guy with the clever gimmick and silly music.

Like Doink The Clown, Evan Bayh has a reliable…

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Pro Wrestling and Health Care Reform: Bam-Bam-HMO?

Posted 2 years, 6 months ago

Watching President Obama size up the 21st century’s Four Horsemen of Nationalized Health Care (insurance companies, hospitals, the rich, Republicans), I can’t help thinking he’s working The Big Man’s Knee, that he’s watching out for what I like to call The Fallacy of The Big Man Who Won’t Go Down.

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