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Angry Mom: Oh, Honey — If Anybody’s ‘Out of Touch’, It’s You

I wasn’t going to waste my time on the over-privileged, excessively- pampered trophy wife Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin stupidly took with him on a recent taxpayer- funded business trip . Linton was on a government-funded jet, and cited her husband's service as part of her punch-down of a critic https://t.co/DfJ1GOMvlf — Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) August 22, 2017 But after thinking about her rude, snotty, and insanely ill-informed reply to someone who took issue with her gross display of wealth, I think I should expend a few words. Mrs. Mnuchin believes she and her spouse contribute more to the country than whomever it was who critiqued her behavior. No. They and their kind are leeches. Bloodsuckers. Literally part of the great vampire squid empire Matt Taibbi described. They do not add value to this country. They chew at its foundations in great, monster-sized bites. And they believe they are entitled to do so. But they’re wealthy! Look at all the money they have , one mig...

upending the whodunit genre has its rewards

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On a blue- sky summer day , three 12-year-old kids run into an ancient forest adjoining a housing estate. Two of the children are never seen again. The third is found near the centre of the forest, his back and the palms of his hands pressed against a large oak tree . He has blood inside his shoes and no memory of what happened. Much later, when the boy has grown up and become a detective, he is assigned to investigate the murder of a child close to the spot where his friends disappeared . This is the starting point of In the Woods, the first of six related novels that have won a cultish following for Irish writer Tana French . All six books, together known as the Dublin Murder Squad series , are beautifully written. All are hefty. " Big long bastards ," as French puts it when we meet in a Dublin hotel. And all are addictive. I was given the series for Christmas last year, and spent the next few months – annoyingly interrupted by work and, you know, life – reading one volum...