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Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Month October 2011
The little White House that couldn’t
Political Wire Despite its faults, Joe Nocera says Ron Suskind’s Confidence Men is “tough-minded in its assessment of the men (and they were all men) whose advice the president listened to when he first took office; penetrating in its analysis…
While we celebrate Amanda Knox’s freedom
Let’s also applaud The Innocence Project. It has freed hundreds of prisoners based on modern DNA testing that proved they were innocent. Some of them had been imprisoned unjustly for thirty years.
Secret docs show foreclosure watchdog doesn’t bark or bite
The government’s supervision of the program has apparently ranged from nonexistent to weak. I knew you’d be shocked. Apparently Rule of Law in this country is becoming as non-existent as it is in Italy, aided and abetted by the curiously…
The Weirdos. Helium Bar
Circa 1980. A truly wondrous punk / art band. I saw them live once at a bookstore on Sunset in L.A. with The Nerves (pre-Plimsouls Peter Case.) I just *love* bands like this.