In my last post I attempted to list the things I found especially resonant last year in media, entertainment, art […]
Category: politics
On Happy Meals and the Nanny State
The latest highly-publicized, hotly-ridiculed move by my adopted city of San Francisco was to ban the Happy Meal. And so […]
Three Financial Industry Reforms We Should Demand
The House recently passed a major financial reform bill, and the Senate will vote on it as soon as there’s […]
Our Missed Opportunity
Things are ugly right now. After the healthcare bill passed, we all heard how a few so-called tea baggers hurled […]
America: The Game
Americans, it’s well known, aren’t interested in soccer. Americans prefer the other football. We don’t like hockey either, which isn’t […]
Dear Conservative Friend
Yes old friend, I’m talking to you. You with the high-paying office job, the fine house in the suburbs, the […]
Elimination Dance: Sarah Palin
If Sarah Palin falls in the forest and the media ignores her, does it make a sound? I shouldn’t have […]
Elimination Dance: Small-Government Fanatics
It’s been a while since I posted here, and I’m introducing a new category: Elimination Dance. Instructions: An elimination dance […]
The Financial Crisis explained… again
In the tradition of The Giant Pool of Money, its spinoff Planet Money and this fine piece of writing by […]
The other opportunists
There are a lot of people lining up for stimulus dollars, a lot of ambitious and long-dormant projects being dusted […]