Finally, a reason to go to Broadway!

For Mr. Parker, 41, and Mr. Stone, 39, who after 20 years of creative partnership speak in almost identical cadences, arriving on Broadway feels like the culmination of their life’s work. Starting with a college project, “Cannibal! The Musical” (about the American prospector Alferd Packer), they have made their savage if affectionate musical-theater sendups a staple of “South Park.” They have also turned to the composer and lyricist Marc Shaiman for musical contributions to their movies “South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut” (whose songs included an indelible tribute to the worst possible activities you could engage in with your uncle) and “Team America: World Police” (which featured the “Rent”-inspired tune “Everyone Has AIDS”).

If you aren’t mega excited for this YOU’RE INSANE.

Remember the German economic boom of 2010?

Germany’s economic growth surged in the middle of last year, causing commentators both there and here to proclaim that American stimulus had failed and German austerity had worked. Germany’s announced budget cuts, the commentators said, had given private companies enough confidence in the government to begin spending their own money again.

Well, it turns out the German boom didn’t last long. With its modest stimulus winding down, Germany’s growth slowed sharply late last year, and its economic output still has not recovered to its prerecession peak. Output in the United States — where the stimulus program has been bigger and longer lasting — has recovered. This country would now need to suffer through a double-dip recession for its gross domestic product to be in the same condition as Germany’s.

Yet many members of Congress continue to insist that budget cuts are the path to prosperity. The only question in Washington seems to be how deeply to cut federal spending this year.

Just as conservatives constantly held up Ireland as their pre-recession model of de-regulated, business friendly envy, they’ve been holding up Germany as the shining austere example of economic recovery. Well, whoops. Before we keep falling over each other to prove who can cut more from the budget, can we please be shown one single example, or even a theoretical proof case, of how cutting spending and firing a shitload of people who, directly or indirectly, rely on the government for their employment, will somehow jumpstart our economy. 

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Followed by North Carolina, Georgia and Texas.. four of the five states that do not have collective bargaining for educators and have deemed it illegal. The fifth, Virginia, ranks 44th. 

Obviously that’s reflective of a lot of different factors (namely their Gonorrhea problem). But still, cool beans. 

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