Last week the Harvard professor said that Keynes came up with bad economy policies because he was gay and childless. Ferguson eventually apologized, but in an open letter in Tuesday's Harvard Crimson, he dug in further on the substance of his claim, that Keynes' sexuality influenced his economic policy.
As if the "Where's Hillary?" meme hadn't picked up enough conspiratorial steam, it appears some believe Kerry somehow might not get confirmed as Clinton's successor until GOP Senators successfully drag her to testify about the Benghazi attacks.
Way back in June, former enfant terrible turned fortysomething terrible Bret Easton Ellis touched a dangerous third rail by tweeting about famous recluse/showbiz blogger Nikki Finke and now it's become a big ol' Hollywood fight with pricey lawyers.
Paul Krugman didn't call out colleague Andrew Ross Sorkin by name, but when the Nobel prize winning economist and New York Times columnist dismissed a group of CNBC interviewers as having "zombie ideas" in his blog Wednesday, that group included Sorkin.
The series finale of ABC's she-business show Desperate Housewives airs on Sunday, and so the days leading up to it are filled with sweet, poignant stories about the cast and crew saying goodbye to one another after eight long years. Well most of it is sweet and poignant (not actually, but in theory at least, or thematically). One story is instead mean and hilarious!
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