Blind Squirrels
I’ve reflected before on what a sleazebag former Sen. John Edwards was and is. But his latest tabloid exploits (or, more precisely, the latest tabloid …
The Price of Success
The Southern Poverty Law Center is an Alabama-based political advocacy law firm that did some ground-breaking legal work in the 1970s. Its founder, Morris Dees, …
Look Sharp
Recently, the Financial Times noted that “spurred in part by iPad anticipation, shareholder enthusiasm has more than doubled Apple’s market capitalization in the past year, …
Specious Reality
The Atlanta Progressive News is not a heavily visited internet site, but it recently got more traffic than usual. In mid-February, APN terminated senior staff …
Bastion of Idiots
In late March and early April, various members of the Tea Party movement announced plans to hold rallies on Tax Day, April 15. The date …
First Shoe Dropping
For more than a year, Wall Street bond analysts have been warning that growing debt sales by the U.S. Treasury will eventually put upward pressure …
Bullies, Bullies
A steady stream of hysterical claptrap has been spilling out of western Massachusetts. As you’ve probably read or heard, a local district attorney has indicted …
Waiting for no Waxman
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act, a statist indulgence passed in the wake of the Enron financial accounting scandal, requires publicly-traded companies to make announcements whenever they rea- …
Mendacious Moral Outrage
Following the advice of Sun Tzu, I try to understand my adversaries. This effort leads me to join some email lists and read some magazines …
Battle of the Books
Jerome David (“J.D.”) Salinger wrote what may be the most influential American novel of the 20th century, “The Catcher in the Rye” (1951). “Catcher” is …