Month January 2009

Shame on Wall Street

Photo: “Capitalist Pig” by planetgordon on Flickr President Obama today said it was “the height of irresponsibility” for financial corporations to have doled out $18 billion in bonuses to their employees in a year when many banks shed jobs and…

Gun ownership and murder rates

Asymptotic Life has been documenting what others have discovered too, that there is no discernable correlation between gun ownership and murder rates. Not by percentage of gun owners, not by population density, not by income level, not by anything anyone…

California on fiscal brink

Schwarzenegger warns of layoffs if unions reject furloughs. Yup, they’re still paying chicken. LA County officials describe potential ‘doomsday scenario,’ something that will happen if the state defers payments to the county California says no income tax refunds, we’re broke.…

Long overdue

Cardinal Mahony of Los Angeles is under federal investigation for fraud concerning pedophile priests. I lived in Los Angeles then and watched Mahony lie, evade, slime pedophile victims, stonewall, and do everything he could to avoid having the Catholic Church…