Month October 2007

Take a bow, Al Gore

Eight years ago, after losing the 2000 presidential race, he was mocked and assumed to be washed up. Today,  after co-founding cable channel Current TV and winning an academy award, he’s won the Nobel Peace Prize and helped enormously to…

Another day, another demo

The Stop The War Coalition held an antiwar demonstration on Monday in London. It was successful in that it was held in defiance of a governmental ban on protests in the area, and the government backed down at the last…

We’re all subprime now

From Tanta at Calculated Risk, in a long post about how, yes, the poor and people of color generally got stuck with mortgages with higher interest and more onerous terms that did higher income Anglos. But, and this is a…