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Category: Culture

Seeing Things In A New Light: Dancing

Musical expression comes in an infinite variety of forms – from professional musicians … to air guitar players, from formally … More

Irish Hand Dance, Peter Harding, Riverdance, Suzanne Cleary, Up and Over It

Delinquent Taxpayers and Government Employees — Never The Twain Should Meet

When government employees are also delinquent taxpayers…  Oh, the irony. At a time when bad and government have become synonymous, … More

Delinquent Taxpayers, Governance, Government Employees, Taxes

Seeing Things In A New Light: Sport Fishing Shows

Sport fishing shows have always seemed an oddity to me. Where is the entertainment in watching a couple of guys … More

Bill Dance, Blooper Video, Sport Fishing
Surrendering to the worst

Surrendering To The Worst

When it comes to the art of compromise in the political world today, the measure of success is visible good. … More

Bill Black, Dean Baker, Marshall Auerback, Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi, Nouriel Roubini, Russ Feingold, Scott Brown, Theodore Roosevelt

Serving a Corporate Criminal Culture

The National Republican Senatorial Committee has released a devastating ad against President Obama’s handling of the BP oil spill vs … More

'Never Again" ad, BP Oil Spill, Corporate Criminal Culture, EPA Investigator, Gulf of Mexico, Scott West

Words Failed

Growing up as a city girl in the midwest, my introduction to and early education about crude oil and its … More

BP Oil Spill, Gulf of Mexico

Bring in the Criminologists

In May of 2009, Simon Johnson wrote in The Quiet Coup: If the IMF’s staff could speak freely about the … More

Bill Black, Control Fraud, criminologists, Economy

Presidential Quotes

A few of my favorite presidential quotes in honor of President’s day: “On this view of the import of the … More

Abraham Lincoln, Bill Clinton, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin D. Roosevelt, George Washington, John Adams, John F. Kennedy, Thomas Jefferson

Savvy Bankers? Free-Markets? Populist President?

Here is what Americans in 1933 heard from their populist President during FDR’s Fireside Chat on the Banking System: Only a foolish … More

Bankers, FDR, Paul Krugman, Populist Presidents, President Obama, Simon Johnson

That Gaping Hole in Our Recovery is Called Jobs!

There is a gaping hole in our recovery and more and more of Main Street America is falling through it. … More

American Consumers, Jobs, Money, Recession, Unemployment

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