Month February 2008

Stock market clobbered today

The DOW was down 322, most of the other major indexes were sharply down too. The stock market has been whistling in the dark for about a month now, pretending all is well while the credit markets screamed “warning, warning,…

Pruned saves Subtopia

Subtopia suffered a horrendous crash last night. Or got hacked. Or something. The blog was mangled, seemingly beyond repair. But then Alex Trevi of Pruned, a fellow traveler blog to Suptopia, stepped in and after hours of late night work,…

One out of 100 Americans in prison

For the first time in history more than one in every 100 adults in America are in jail or prison—a fact that significantly impacts state budgets without delivering a clear return on public safety Not only does this prison-industrial complex…