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Fascinating transcript of David Benton’s interview with Clay Christensen, David Skok and James Allworth. Skok: “There’s a lot of focus on the marketing-driven side of things, in trying to get to that Madison Avenue “18-34 female,” as opposed to trying … Continue reading →

Forget the double-think ribbon-cutting– Houston’s Bayou city Concert Musicals is performing a program of Arthur Schwartz’s song–not as familiar as their merit warrants.  As a kid, I feasted on an assortment of Schwartz’s original-cast-performed songs for 1935’s At Home Abroad.

Could it be totalitarian?  And could we, the United States, be getting closer and closer to joining that particular circle of hellish limbo? I’m afraid those are exactly the conclusions prompted when our servile “mainstream” news media allows ex-President GW … Continue reading →

— than it looked at first. Brian Beutler explains why at Talkingpointsmemo.com. And according to Politico, the President is doubling down on efforts to get it passed by more attempts at deal-cutting with the Republicans (along with a probable attempt … Continue reading →

Quick, somebody tell the “mainstream” media! What might do the commercial news media some good is to start a policy of enhanced focus on reporting reality.  Issues of literally world-shattering importance like our environmental crisis might be a good place … Continue reading →

So says The Wall Street Journal’s Pia Catton (ex my editor at the New York Sun, probably one of the few in the city who love ballet). Today Pia in her “Culture City” column goes deep into the niche, profiling … Continue reading →

Maureen Dowd in the Times nails it on Obama’s defeatism and the way it’s robbed his Presidency of efficacy. And, as she says, the President simply cannot/will not learn from past/ongoing failures and mistakes.

And–surprise!– it’s been based on bogus numbers. Paul Krugman justifiably goes off in the Times on the way that “Our exaggerated fear of debt is, in short, creating a slow-motion catastrophe.” While Richard Eskow at the Campaign for America’s Future … Continue reading →

The income now necessary to maintain what was a considered a middle-class existence in the 1950s-‘70s puts said existence beyond the reach of any below the bottom reaches of the one percent.  Job and retirement security, unions, all get eviscerated.  … Continue reading →

I’m afraid that that is the crux of the Grand Bargain Obama continues to agitate for.   That’s not, however, what the majority of Americans want.  It is, however, exactly what not only Obama,  but a considerable amount of office-holders want.  … Continue reading →