Monthly Archives: March 2009

Ageism Richard Wolff Style

From an otherwise OK Richardl Wolff Vanity Fair piece on Rush Limbaugh, the following paragraph: It is, rather, a crueler demographic point. The dirty little secret of conservative talk radio is that the average age of listeners is 67 and … Continue reading

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Huffington Post Buries Another

BURIED POST

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Is Ousting Bank Heads Next?

President Obama is trying to dismantle faux capitalism and restore something like the inventive society that folk like Thorstein Veblen wanted to see, a society of productive, engineer-respecting non-conspicuous consumers. Remember that. These are not takeovers. They are makeovers. Huzzah! … Continue reading

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Obama’s Ingenuity Card

Barack Obama put all the pieces of the new economy together two years ago but it is/was obviously a mite too radical to get the John McCain’s of the world aboard. He knew, for example, that, by making a contemporary … Continue reading

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Obama Has The Clue on Autofuture

I think deep down the President has the clue on automobiles, houses, highways, transportation, schools, human settlements and the future. But it requires some stutter-stepping to inform the booboisie that the day of two cars in every, project ghettoes,gated stratification … Continue reading

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