September 2008
20 posts
“When the Financial Accounting Standards Board met after the Enron scandal to...”
– High and Low Finance - After the Deal, the Focus Will Shift to Regulation - A MUST-READ
“the rhetoric of personal responsibility stops at the edge of the market.”
– A Brilliant Article by Ellen Goodman about ‘Personal Responsibility’
“Why did Obama recite all of his military arguments as a solo act? Why...”
– Raymond Leon Roker: ‘Knocking Out the White Man’: 10 Reasons Obama Still Loses in Middle America
“SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A man has been charged with battery on a police...”
– Man charged with battery for farting near cop
“We like to think that people will be well informed before making important...”
– Slashdot | Studies Say Ideology Trumps Facts
“David Letterman, according to Drudge: “You don’t suspend your...”
– McCain suspends his campaign
“Soon we will see a title such as “the last of the Tuaregs” due to the fact that...”
– The end of the tuaregs
This makes me very sad.
“The conservative movement is based on a misunderstanding. The first generation...”
– Rupert Russell: How Bill Buckley’s Hatred of the New Deal Brought the Wall Street Crash of 2008
Norman Goldman was filling in for Ed Schultz...
“The act of making sacrifice, of course, is a means of symbolically returning...”
– The Shambles under Highland Butte
“Consta que a última frase pronunciada por Machado de Assis, em meio às dores...”
– Veja
“People who startle easily in response to threatening images or loud sounds seem...”
– Startle Response Linked to Politics - washingtonpost.com
Bill Moyers interviews Kevin Phillips →
I heard the last 20 minutes or so last night. Phillips has some pretty amazing critiques of our economic system. His book is called BAD MONEY: RECKLESS FINANCE, FAILED POLITICS, AND THE GLOBAL CRISIS OF AMERICAN CAPITALISM.
Obama Scrapbook →
“I was able to see a moral world in which families, not individuals, are the...”
– WHAT MAKES PEOPLE VOTE REPUBLICAN? By Jonathan Haidt
Court: Republicans Can Force Companies NOT To... →
This is not new news, really, but it’s good to tell people just what Republicans mean when they say they want to get government out of our lives.
“One of the remarkable features of modern political life is how consistently...”
– There Is an Alternative to Corporate Rule 