"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
I blogged recently about the problems in the home loan modification racket in which practically nobody ever actually gets help to keep their home: The human face of what happens to families whose home are foreclosed on was made plain…
Bank of America cubicles emptied of the 99% employees who used to do home loan modifications for the rest of the 99% Revolutions all over the world have been demonstrating just how critical the internet is to the modern world. …
Ambrose Bierce wrote in his Devil’s Dictionarythat “Radicalism is the Conservativism of tomorrow, injected into the affairs of today.” One of the joys of aging is to have been a radical in one’s youth, to continue to be a radical,…
My commentary relates to this article which is running in the Los Angeles Weekly: The accusation that Eric Bauman is “Macchiavellian” is based on the unstated premise that Macchiavelli wrote in The Prince that “The ends justify the means.”…
I’ve been waiting with baited breath to see just how mondo-bizarro the Republican race for the presidential nomination could get. It started at the bottom and has been working its way down ever since. It is so strange that it…
My hat is off to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who recently announced an initiative to insist upon equitable and fair treatment of LGBTI people as a condition for receiving USA foreign aid funds. At least one country, Malawi, has…