Reason #1: The big ad that was on the front page of the A section, by none other than the Exxon corporation.
Reason #2: The Bill Kristol experiment.
Reason #3: Bono’s columns. Does hiring a rock star as a columnist sound like an act of gimmicky desperation to anyone else? Here’s a sample: “Football captures [...]
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Three reasons to cancel my New York Times subscription…
Posted in This category is post-categorization on February 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Out of the Revolution…
Posted in This category is post-categorization on December 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here the Senate Republicans are, standing over the embers of their failed project that began in 1995, and they don’t even seem phased. Unions are their bull’s eye, and if a large chunk of the US manufacturing sector goes under to get at them—well who cares? You at least have to give them [...]
Destroying the UAW, part 3
Posted in This category is post-categorization on December 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Unsurprisingly, the Republicans have concocted a bill that would “salvage” the bailout by hammering at the UAW.
Update: and finally the UAW shows backbone!
Detroit update
Posted in This category is post-categorization on December 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Levin says he’s unsure whether they’ll get to 60, the new bill will feature an oversight board to ensure “drastic restructuring.” In short, it seems that getting to 60 will require the blood of the UAW.
Krugman thinks the auto industry in the Detroit environs will likely disappear (see his NYTimes blog, he doesn’t really elaborate [...]
Detroit part 2, reply to Ocho Cinco
Posted in This category is post-categorization on December 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The last question in your post Josh asks, why are Dem’s pushing for layoffs in the middle of a recession? My answer: it isn’t just any jobs that will be cut, it’s the jobs worked by members of the UAW, the most powerful union body in the country today. The death or wounding of the [...]
Obama, Detroit, and Pink Slips
Posted in This category is post-categorization on December 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The pundit gears are churning and even amidst all the chicanery—like private “advisors” sucking away big portions of the federal bailout money—the main question is what kind of administration Obama will run. As I see it there are two big schools of thought. Some, like Alexander Cockburn, expect Clintonesque right-of-center compromises. Others [...]
Adorno and tact
Posted in This category is post-categorization on December 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For Theodor Adorno, tact emerges as the bourgeoise individual frees himself of moral absolutism (the doctrine of whole rights and whole wrongs). I assume the freedom from absolutism, for Adorno, represents the historical entrance of the liberal, egotistical individual and the making of society for him. This individual knows no whole rights and wrongs, for [...]
Thoughts on Black Friday
Posted in This category is post-categorization on November 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I was the odd man out at the Thanksgiving dinner with my opinion on Black Friday. My opinion: Black Friday is a festering sore of American culture, theirs: there’s nothing wrong with shopping when the stuff is cheap. I think they missed the point, but that’s fine, I’ll try and make it again (and better).
By [...]
A Time for Thanks
Posted in This category is post-categorization on November 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I would like to thank God and Turkeys for this wonderful holiday. Without God and Turkeys there would be no Thanksgiving, there would only be Sara Palin.
Remembering COINTELPRO
Posted in This category is post-categorization on November 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
In times when the government seems to bungle everything, a common conclusion drawn by many is that the government is incapable of producing “results.” The recent spate of governmental ineptness and inadequacy (Iraq, Katrina, the economy) is not only a spicy combination of ideology, bureaucracy, and nepotism, it is dangerous in the sense that it [...]
