In “Unprecedented” Move, Obama Grows a Spine (and Republicans have a cow) (1)
1/05/12 •
On learning of the President’s recess appointments yesterday to both the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the long-suffering National Labor Relations Board, I was nothing but pleased. I felt encouraged that Obama had finally grown some spine and taken…
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Occupy Wall Street: Demanding What They’ve Earned (4)
11/10/11 •
There is a theme I’ve been noticing in much of the criticism of Occupy Wall Street. It is something along these lines: protesting economic inequality is just outspoken jealousy; the protesters are demanding something they haven’t earned. This theme underlies…
Book Review: Truth and Consequences: Life Inside the Madoff Family (0)
11/10/11 •
At a moment when hundreds of people are camped out across the country in protest of Wall Street greed, and we struggle to understand how the richest 1% of Americans wound up with 40% of the wealth, who wouldn’t be…
So many stars, so little to say (0)
10/17/11 •
I love a good outbreak movie. I love the sensational way they typically illuminate cultural fears and their quaint tendency to hint at the scapegoats of the moment. What are we blaming for our social ills this week? Sexual wantonness? …
“Sometimes, it’s just expensive.” (2)
6/30/10 •
Ads like Hardees’ rely on an easy identification from the viewer. What does that say about us?
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Gilliam’s Gamble Pays off with “Imaginarium”
