Get Over Your Industrial Complex
On Monday, General Motors spooked the entire economics community, financial and academic, when it reported that it was hemorraging $2 billion a month and might be forced to declare bankruptcy. If their cash reserves dip below $10 billion, the company said it will be unable to pay its health care obligations or even finance its [...]
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David Blaine, watch your back. Despite your impressive resume of awe-inspiring street magic and death-defying physical exploits, a far better illusionist is attempting to complete his last and most astonishing trick. A vanishing act, so incredibly unbelievable, that it will forever be considered one of the greatest acts of deception ever displayed to an audience. [...]
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On Tuesday night, with the resounding selection of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States, the latest test case in the trial of idealism successfully earned a place back on the American docket. It was a moment of emotional catharsis for idealism’s often denigrated liberal clerks, whose flowing tears and unrelenting exclamations [...]
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Tonight, everything is up for grabs. Who loses in that type of situation? The status quo. Existing worldviews. Who’s playing? Insurers, universities, health care organizations, foreclosure markets, and more health care organizations. To the media players, desperate to keep this election interesting and watchable, McCain is currently “winning”, but everyone knows he’s going to lose. [...]
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On Sunday, it was reported (barely) by the New York Times that, allegedly, a Special Forces operation was carried out by four American choppers and on-the-ground commandos within Syria‘s borders. They destroyed a terrorist haven in Kabul, a town that borders Syria and Iraq. Syria claimed that it was a “construction” zone. Intelligence indicated that [...]
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For as long as I can remember, I have heard nightmarish tales from conservative pundits of the spectre of a “liberal bias” in the mainstream media. Ranging from the patently absurd to the clearly insightful, these claims have resurfaced in the current presidential election with a vengeance. John McCain, who consistently joked that the media [...]
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In what has to be the most shocking ideological shift caused by the American sub-prime lending crisis, Alan Greenspan has tentatively reversed his position on the ability of financial institutions to regulate themselves. A stalwart defender of the free-market and deregulation during his 18-year tenure as chairman of the Federal Reserve, Mr. Greenspan testified on [...]
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While the current global financial crisis has its immediate roots in the collapse of the American housing bubble, there has been little to no discussion about the deeper causes of the meltdown. As you’ve probably read many times elsewhere, the internal practices of the financial sector – AIG, Merrill, Lehman, Mac – triggered the floodgates [...]
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Nothing I’ve ever read has effectively explained to me how evolution works. I know there are mutations: the beneficial mutations lead to survival and reproduction while harmful mutations lead to death. How, I’ve always wondered, can the amazing complexity and diversity of live arise from so many individual efforts of trial and error? How many [...]
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John McCain’s presidential campaign is starting to do quite poorly. According to the latest ABC/Washington Post national polling data, Democratic hopeful Barack Obama has opened a ten point lead - 53% to 43% – over his Republican rival. Indeed, states that “should have been” solid red like Virginia, North Carolina, and Florida are turning pall [...]
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Californian Jurisprudence To The Rescue?
by Anthony Kanigliero on November 24, 2008
in Commentary
Every morning I drive down Santa Monica Boulevard in West Los Angeles, past the largest Mormon Church in Southern California. Before Proposition 8 – the state referendum functionally banning gay marriage – passed, I felt fairly ambivalent towards the looming concrete structure, anointed by the large gold figurine of a man pointing east towards Jerusalem. [...]
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