In 2008, just like in in Chicago in 1983, Obama’s campaign represents nothing less than the hostile takeover of an established, once seemingly insurmountable Democratic More
On Writing
A way forward for financial bloggers
In order to have a alternative party to the prevailing wisdom of American capitalism in our daily discourse that would be the equivalent of the Democrat/Republican divide, the U.S. would need at least a couple of million people who believed that Wall Street was not the key to their future retirement, but instead stood as More
Introduction
It stays near you,
This act of writing,
Never strays too far.
Even if other things get in the way
And you sometimes have to act like
You’ve never met it before
A day in your More
This looks like a Lee Morgan video …
But it’s really just a test to see what embedded video will look like on the site.
Please do not panic.
Plus, Benny Golson, too. More
Man, people in this country can be confused
Who knew that Hollywood writers had complete control over the race for the most powerful office on the More
Bush finds soul mate in Russia’s bloody Beria
Imagine if Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria, minister of the interior for the Soviet Union during Stalin’s bloody purges in the 1930s, gave a press conference. What would it sound like? it might sound a lot like George Bush today, December 6th, 2005, here in the United States of More
How does the president of Gabon come up with $9 million, anyway?
Remember back in 1998, when Republicans, particularly Tennesee senator-turned-crime fighter Fred Thompson, CIA officer-turned-politician-turned-CIA-chief Porter J. Goss and one-time Strom Thurmond fan Trent Lott (R-Mississippi) were all up in arms over reports that President Clinton sold military technology to the Chinese in exchange for campaign More
Whither the right to write?
Back in August of 2003—a mere three years ago but seemingly in another lifetime—I started The American Sentimentalist with little more than an overabundant belief in my own abilities and boatloads of naivete. But suffice it to say it’s much easier to sell a story about how interest rates affect bond yields than it is More
