Hindsight: still clearer, pepper spray or no (0)
4/17/12 •
Brad Hicks already has an excellent post about it here, but a report has been released by the committee, led by former California Supreme Court Associate Justice Cruz Reynoso, which was charged with investigating the UC Davis pepper spray incident last November. And it’s even worse than you think. Not surprisingly to anyone who saw [...]
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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 the only action possible, given Republicans’ demonstrated policy of total obstruction. I was surprised to [...]
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 Herman Cain’s famous comment, “If you don’t have a job and you’re not rich, blame [...]
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 interested to learn more about the man behind the largest financial fraud in American history? [...]
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? Foreigners? Scientific hubris? Africa? It’s been too long since the last good non-zombie outbreak movie, [...]
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Gilliam’s Gamble Pays off with “Imaginarium”
