The ship is sinking, Senator.

In order for you guys and gals to be informed about Senator McCain, you’d have to dig deep to discover the dirt and the truth. Thankfully, the Rolling Stone is a time-saver. Tim Dickinson (genius that he is) wrote a mini-biography of John McCain that could be consumed over a long lunch, all 27 printer-friendly pages of it.

I’m sure that many of you don’t have that kind of time on your hands. Luckily, I do. Read on for a few insights into the senator’s hush-hush break-up with first wife Carol Shepp, his recklessness in the armed forces, and the temper that earned him a nickname “mean little f*cker.” 

Warning: the article is explicit.


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World Peace! What’s wrong with that?

In an excerpt from “The Maternal is Political,” Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, makes a pleading case for world peace and an end to the war we are currently fighting, and losing (according to Speaker Pelosi). From her maternal point of view she argues the senselessness of the war and the unjustified destruction it leaves in families across the US and in the Middle East.

Read ahead for important highlights from the essay!

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