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Jim Naurecks at Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting supplies the inconvenient (for Dimon) fact that those pay raises he’s crowing about are going to be “largely involuntary”–as in legally mandated. Apparently, following the law is something Jamie thinks he deserves … Continue reading →

It’s a busy week for the GV Historic Society: T’row evening it places a commemorative plaque on Jean-Michel Basquiat’s former studio/ home on Great Jones Street. It’s a praiseworthy thing to do, but nevertheless there are so many layers of … Continue reading →

Tom Miller of “Daytonian in Manhattan” blog fame, lectures this evening at the Sixth Street Community Center, a program presented by the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation. He’ll talk about Manhattan’s long-ago Little Germany neighborhood which once radiated out … Continue reading →

Once again, Robert Parry at Consortium News departs from the lockstep geopolitical narrative of our ever-more war hungry neo cons and the “mainstream” media that toadies to them. Not content with the catastrophes they sowed in the Middle East, they … Continue reading →

I went to Shuffle Along Friday night and I had a ball. Nothing about the show seemed aimed at tourists–Yureka time!  That said, anyone from anywhere could “get” it. I felt a bit like I did as a kid when … Continue reading →

Williams Rivers Pitt at Truthout terms the refusal of political candidates or the media to discuss our totally out-of-control military budget “a Master’s thesis on how to control a populace by dint of narrowing the conversational parameters.”

That the campaign for Corbyn’s scalp is led by Labor MPs who supported Blair’s stampede over the cliff into Iraq, and, naturally enough, vehemently opposed the Chilcot inquiry? Blairite bounders. Keep calm and carry on, Leader Corbyn!

In my head, I link the way that Dickens and other epic, serialized nineteenth-century novelists take up a plot line or character and then let it drift offstage for a while, and the way that Tchernichova used to say she’d … Continue reading →

Can a soprano voice have the aural power of an acetylene torch as well as the euphonious spin of a flock of sea gulls at dawn? (Purple, indeed, but I recall those summers in Cape Cod.) I’ve decided the answer … Continue reading →

to Britain’s striking public (as we define the term in U.S. parlance) school teachers, protesting the usual toxic austerity brew that is foreclosing prospects for another generation of British children. In the austericists’ rifle sights is, of course, arts education … Continue reading →