By Mark | January 4, 2010
Whenever I start to get a little too optimistic about the future, and I want to regain my foothold in the word of dystopian pessimism, I like to check in with author Jim Kunsler. Jim, for those of you who don’t know him, is the author of such books as The Long Emergency: Surviving the […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged banking reform, cannibal holocaust, cheap oil, civil disturbance, community potlucks, decomplexifying, discipline and fortitude of the citizenry, downscaling, dystopia, Federal Reserve, Great Depression, Growing Hope, healthy food access, Hostess Ho-Hos, Jim Kunstler, jive talking, neck tattoos, re-humanizing, re-localizing, recovery, sustainable communities, The Long Emergency, urban farming |
By Mark | September 23, 2009
I’m tired of Glenn Beck. For a while, he kind of served a purpose for me – giving me somewhere to focus my anger – but I think it’s probably time to move on to more fertile ground. There’s only so much hate, after all, that I can spew. Plus, it looks like Beck is […]
Posted in Media, Politics | Also tagged Andy Kaufman, anti-imperialism, bad DJs, Glenn Beck, morning zoo, neocon, paranoia, small-government liberty, Socialism, the Birther army, Tony Clifton, zany, zookeeper |
By Mark | September 14, 2009
It’s been one year since the investment bank Lehman Brothers went belly up, putting into motion a chain of events that would culminate in some $600 billion in American taxpayer money being given away to corporations like AIG, Bank of America and Goldman Sachs. To commemorate the day, and breath new life into his stalled […]
Posted in Economics, Other, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged AIG, Andrew Cuomo, Bank of America, banking reform, Capitalism, Capitalism: A Love Story, Corporate Crime, credit, derivitives, financial reform, gambling, Glass-Steagall Act, Goldman Sachs, investment banking, Lehman Brothers, lending, loans, lobbyists, Michael Moore, Obama, other people's money, reckless behavior, Robert Reich, the short attention spans of Americans, unrepentant sons of bitches, Wall Street |
I was just reading this piece in today’s New York Times on the enormous profits being posted by the investment bank Goldman Sachs, and I was reminded of an article I read a week or so ago in Rolling Stone by Matt Taibbi. Here are clips from both for your consideration. First, the New York […]
Posted in Corporate Crime, Economics, Politics | Also tagged blood funnel, corporatocracy, financial bubbles, Goldman Sachs, Matt Taibbi, New York Times, Rolling Stone, taxpayer money, vampire squid |
I had great plans for tonight’s post. I was going to weave asparagus cultivation, the prosecution of Bush administration officials, the existence of bailout fraud and the curative properties of Vitamin D all together into one perfect, little Chinese puzzle box of a post. And I had it all worked out as to how I […]
