Sitemap - 2008 - The Dark Side of the Moon
Home Auctions--Killing Homeowners and Banks
An Extensive, Powerful, Transformative--Hoarding
Easy Now--the Fat Lady Has Not Yet Sung
The Irony of Senator Schumer on Executive Pay
Capital Is Doing Just Fine with Regard to Banks
Chrysler--a Likeable Roundheels--Will Sell Itself to Anyone
At Last--an Iraq Exit Strategy Supported by the Media
"Never Seen Panic like This" Is the Central Problem
Jim Freeman's Melt-down Limerick
At Last--Banks Now Unwilling to Lend at a Better Rate
Bailing Out Wooden Arrows with Wooden Nickels
Defusing a Bar-Fight by Handing One Guy a Broken Bottle
Swapped Out of Our Underwear by Credit Defaults
The Pelosi House--Rotten to Its Very Foundation
Saving Homes Instead of Foolish Investors
"They Just Don't Get It" Wails Wall Street
The Paulson-Driven Marshall Plan
Those Who Eat and Those Who Serve
Lenders Hoard Their Cash--Ask for Yours
A Cheap Shot at Craving Cheap Credit
One Man's Vast Is Another Man's Half-Vast
Not Exactly Pearl Harbor--but Close
Sunnis Laying Low in Iraq and Waiting for the Pullout
Anything for TV--Nothing for Fair Elections
Homeland Security--Losing Your Money at $1.5 Million an Hour
Old-Boy Networker McCain Blames the Old Boy Network
First We Deregulate--Then We Blame Deregulation
The Fed and Wall Street, 4th and Goal for Quarterback Paulson
Seven Years after 9-11, Time to Get over It
Fannie-Freddie Fox to Clean Fannie-Freddie Chickencoop
Karl Rove--Running the McCain 'Change'
Particles No Longer Colliding in America
The Afghan Airstrike That Won't Go Away
Frying Pan to Fire, Oil to Nuclear
First We Save--Then We Decide What It Is We Have Saved
The Irony of Dick Cheney Not Understanding Irony
Bob Woodward--Investigative Journalism by the Volume
Rebuild Georgian Armed Forces? for What?
Charlatans without Borders--the New Globalism
Hey Baby, Is It in the Genes or the Jeans?
Goodnight, Anbar Province, and Good Luck
Sarah Palin Related E-mail from a Friend
Democratic Convention--the Pants Suit Departs, but the Silliness Lingers On
When the Targeting Evidence Fails--"Continue to Believe"
Border Security--Accepting the Fabric of Fear
Saved by Sarkozy, Dick Cheney Limps into Georgia
“First We Take,” the Lessons of 1933 Germany
Sophisticated Analysis--a DHS Oxymoron
Just What We Need--Another Stumbler onto the Security Scene
The Next Great Idea in the Bush Doctrine of Preemptive War
The Next Great Idea in the Bush Doctrine of Preemptive War
Born in Blood, Founded by Terrorists, Israel Confronts Iran on Morality
One Man's Stranglehold Is Another Man's Market-Share
Same Old Same Old--Cease and Desist Instead of Jail
GPS--More Than Just a Device on Your Dashboard
Wrecking Government on the Way Out
Robert Gates, the Right Man at a Very Late Time in the Game
Reticence of Mainstream Media Finally Reported
Finding Work That Doesn't Compromise Your Ethics
Brilliantly Put by Columnist David Ignatius
Does a Wiretap Actually Need a Wire?
Saving Belief in America before It Sinks from Sight
In My Dreams, Google Takes Down Microsoft
Pardon Me While I Retch--the Nation's Interview with Pelosi
How Did ‘Investor Satisfaction’ Ever Get to Be a Taxpayer Priority?
Mccain's Pot Calling Obama Kettle Black
Hanging Public Transportation by the Neck until Dead
One Old Jew and a Couple Self-Interested Generals Re-Create the Eighties
The Dana Tag-Team, Plus My Solution for Walter Reed
What's with This Whole Thing about 'Political Appointees?'
If We Can Only Lose Enough Money, Our Stock Will Double
Like We Hadn't Noticed--Example #437
Memo from Oz--Merrill Lynch and Google
Sam Zell's Heroic Deconstruction of Iconic Newspapers
If You Run with Dogs, You Get Fleas
Saving Face in the Washington-Insider Pissing Match
The Latest in Unprecedented Scams--Er--Plans
Meanwhile, in the Department of Irrelevant Statistics . . .
So Much for Reform, Recovery and Enforcement
When Steven Pearlstein Writes, We Are Obliged to Pay Attention
Steven Pearlstein--Telling It like It Is
Trying to Keep Bush's Head above Water until after January 20th
A Financial System On Steroids
A Tag-Team to Save Investors' Bacon
Pension Funds 'Rushing to Get in' to the Slaughterhouse
Iraqi 4th of July Sale--Big Markdowns by America
More Good News from Nebraska Beef--a Company That Sues Its Victims
Global Warming Not the Only Threat to High Mountain Meadows
American Family Association Wants It 'Their' Way
Cheney Desperate for Iran War, Even If Israel Has to Do It
Iran Dramatically Expands Covert Operations inside America
Third-World to First-World--Anybody Listening?
Pentagon Sees 'Disintegration of Ecosystems' as Operational Problem
Trusting to Fraud for a Solution to Fraud
Henry Paulson's Really Bad Idea
An Advocacy Problem in the 'What's Needed' Department
Hardened Suspects and Innocent Cab Drivers
The Question Is, Can You Still Call It "Meat?"
Whacking Iraq--"Not Defined" and "Doesn't Mean Anything"
Exxon Pins Its Dealers to the Mat
Putting the Blame Where It Belongs--on a Drunk Driver
Cluster-Bombs and Land-Mines--Two Indescriminate Killers of Civilians Only the U.S. Could Love
We Are Not Cattle--They Are, but We're Not
Bush Middle East Policy--"Absent across the Board"
Priorities Shot to Hell, We Plunge into the Energy Abyss
Torture Is Out--Coercing Is in
A Thousand a Week Become "Building Blocks" for the FBI
Adding Addington to the List of No-Shows
The Theory of Dockworker Courage in a Crisis
At the Fed, Debt Magically Becomes Equity
Playing 'Chicken' with Labeling Laws--Tyson Lies for a Buck
Economy Tanks--Dow-Jones Breaks 13,000
It's Come Time to Say It--I Don't Give a Tinker's Damn about "Investors"
"Acquittals? We Have to Have Convictions"
"Inviting the Consideration of Circumstances" to Geneva Conventions
The Bush Agenda--No Money for Anything but Tax Cuts and War
Litigation Drives the Insane Labeling of Children as Sex Offenders
Ass-Kissing Little Chickenshit Promoted to Head U.S. Central Command
The Roach-Motel of Federal Prosecution
No Solution Required--Just an Explanation
Kidding Ourselves (Again) in Afghanistan
Washington Post Counts Combat Stress-- in Dollars
Help the Victim or Punish the Thief? Housing Solutions Get It Mostly Wrong
How Oil Got to $114 a Barrel--the Real Scoop
"Having Been Unable to Strengthen Justice, We Have Justified Strength"
An Armed, Tense, Fearful and Increasingly Ignorant America Finds Obama "Elitist"
Cancelling a Thousand Flights Instead of Maintaining Airliners
Way past Time to "Stifle Innovation" and "Reduce Efficiency" on Wall Street
"Evaluating" Iraqi Forces--and the Winner Is: Chaos
Greenspan Stands Firm after Pulling the Rug
No Nation Has Ever 'Printed' Its Way Out of Economic Disaster
Mugged on Wall Street--How You and I Made J.P. Morgan Rich(Er)
My Old Daddy Always Said, "If You Want to See Time Fly, Sign a 30-Day Note"
Eliminating "Mystery Loopholes" in the Congress
Conversations With the Clueless; (a discouraging look at where the Fed is taking us)
The Fed Counterfeits Money and No One Goes to Jail
Smash the Presses Before Ben Bernanke Starts Printing
We Do Not Torture--Bush's Legacy of Deceit and Criminal Conduct
The Edge of Financial Precipice, and Suddenly Iraq Is Not in the News or the Candidates Voices
Lesson #297 in Why We'll Never Feed the World
Let the Games Begin in China--Not the Olympic, the Arms Race
Why Telecoms Will Get Their Immunity
Letting 100,000 Homes Fall to Pieces
Elite? You Got a Problem with Elite?
Suck It up and Starve--We Can't (or Won't) Afford 8 Hours of War Spending
The Virtual Fence--Failed Components of a Dead Policy--What a Good Idea
Ben Bernanke--Determined to Drive a Stake through the Heart of the Dollar
William F. (Bill) Buckley Dies--an Intellectual Lion Leaves the Scene and We Are Poorer for It
The Visa IPO--an Investment in the Next Big Thing (to Crash)
The Voters "Should Insist"--So Says the New York Times
The Outrage of "No Child Dragged Along"
Disney & Walter Reed--a Goofy Solution
Barack & Hillary--Single Payer, or Does Everybody Get Their Head in the Health-Care Trough?
McCain--the Fair and the Unfair Criticisms
A Wake-up Call That May Have Come after the Dream Has Died and Been Put to Rest Alongside MLK
Campaign Finance--Breaking the Grip of Big Donors
Rediscovering Cuba--Running like Hell to Cover the Tracks of 50 Years of Failed and Useless Policy
Musharraf--Another Bush "Coalition of the Willing" Voted Out
Another Case of Being Bushwhacked by "Senior People Not Typically in the Review Process"
The Pharmacology of School Shootings--Common Bond or Unusual Circumstance?
Healthcare--the New York Times Ignores 45 Million Americans and Pimps for the Big 3 Automakers
Being Poor--and Maintaining Your Poverty--Is a Very Expensive Proposition
Another Doggle in Search of a Boon
Hamas and the Taliban--Winning Hearts and Minds on a Budget, While We Piss Away Billions
Why Not Just Flush the Dollar down the Toilet and Get It over With?
Violated a Federal Court Order? We Don't Need No Stinking Federal Court Orders
Louis Rene Beres--Pimping for Israel from the Comfort and Safety of Indiana University
Funding Weapons against the Last Century's Enemies
Busted--the Coming Credit-Card Meltdown
Just Keep Stuffing in the Money--We'll Give You Some Sort of Weapon
Now We Know How to Spell Giuliani--and He Gets to Keep the Loot
In America We Can Make Anything but Jobs
The First Step toward the Next Step in Teaching
'Cleared' to Wait--So, What's the Point?
The Immunity-Shoe Drops and Investment Bankers Suck in Their Breath
Wolfowitz to Advise on Iran's Nukes? Tell Me It Isn't So!
Lessons from the Chefs of French Banking
Define 'Grapple.' Define 'Stimulus.' What the Hell, Define 'White House!'
Why the Euro Is up and the Dollar in the Toilet
Stop, for God's Sake, Calling America a 'Homeland'
Mortgages to Those with No Money, Followed by Tax Breaks to Those Who Pay No Taxes
Wall Street Analysts--Nobody Knows What the Hell They’re Doing, But the Pay is Great
Holding Our Breath, with a Learner in the Driver's Seat and a Desperate President Riding Shotgun
Breaking the Law--a New Paradigm for American Presidencies
Jews and American Indians--Unequal, but Comparative Losers to History
Air Travel Has Its Place, but Its Place Is Not Ubiquitous
Diplomatic Dancing--Stepping on the Toes of Truth
Accepting the Unacceptable--John Thain's Non Sequitur
A $43 Trillion (as in Thousand-Billion) Bet Gone Sour
When Bureaucrats Do Something Shameful, They Always Claim It Is Their Duty
The Harvard Business School Model--or How My Business Went to Hell with Record Earnings and Profits
Seven Billion Reasons for a Fisheries Collapse
A Thousand to One Return for Congressional Porksters
Cherry-Picking the Economic News--Anything to Whistle past a Graveyard
"Free Speech" Winnows the List of Candidates
My Nominee for the Ken Lay Award--and a Prison Term
Not Saved by the Bell, but Saved by the Bill at the FBI
Bernanke at the Fed Destroys What's Left of the Dollar
The Stuff American Media Isn't Going to Tell You--Life beyond Paris Hilton
Taking Five Years to Smell the Coffee
Watching the Global Meltdown of Wall Street
Mitt Romney's Expensive Self-Immolation
The Endless Campaign with No Time Left
The Viagra Solution--Bush to Keep Economy Hard for Another Year
Who Knows How Far Mukasey May Peek under the Rug?
Welcome to the Ever-Changing, Ever-Same Face of America
Keeping the Homeland Secure by Making You Swim to That Caribbean Vacation
Demanding Paper Ballots--a Right upon Which Democracy Depends