Congress has adjourned for five weeks. This outfit behaves like the French used to do, the French in Paris, for heavens sake. Close down completely in August and go to the beach. A lot of real Americans no longer even Continue reading
You can own property, but you can’t own other people. Those who do own other people are slave owners. Those who are owned are slaves. Corporations are people, ‘persons’ or ‘natural persons’ as they are usually referred to in court. Continue reading
Selig. Are You alright? You look terribly confused. I’m sorry, Mr. B. No need for you to worry. I’ll get back to work. Not until you tell me the problem, Selig. We’re all family here at Goldman Sachs, you know. Continue reading
I’d only planned to review the political TV ads offered up by Super-PACs, thinking they would be where the real fun stuff would appear. No reviewer worth his Bushmills, however, could possibly ignore ads currently coming from the parties’ own Continue reading
The big campaign flap these days concerns Mitt Romney’s relationship with Bain Capital after 1999. He was listed in official documents as the company’s CEO and sole owner for several years after 1999 until 2002, years in which some company Continue reading
Most Americans don’t understand the tax aspects of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). And a good thing, too. At least from the Republican electioneering standpoint. If people understood that almost all the tax increases in this Act are targeted, that Continue reading
I never used to think of myself as a socialist. That was because I believed socialism involved the government owning all the means of production and distribution, and being in charge of all media and modes of transportation. That sort Continue reading
Tennessee recently enacted the toughest pro-abstinence sex education law in the nation, surpassing in breadth (and this one does take your breadth away) kindred efforts in 30 other states. This Tennessee law aims to do away with “gateway sexual activity” Continue reading
I look at the world’s economic problems these days and my mind turns to poetry. I think of W.H. Auden’s tragically appropriate poem, September 1, 1939, which speaks of “…hapless governors wake/to renew their compulsory games/who can release them now…” Continue reading
I’ve been writing a series about the failings and transgressions of Wall Street investment banks built around a fictional character named Selig Cartwright. It is set in a fictional washroom of Goldman Sachs. The series has run on The Moderate Continue reading