Month: October 2014

Leonard Pitts of the Miami Herald has an excellent article from America’s poster child for white poverty, Hazard KY.  For those wondering how to get more Appalachian white people voting their economic interests,...

Promoted by Steven D (with small title change). I have some personal matters which require my attention, and Martin is likely not going to be posting much today, so thank-you Marie. The (MSM induced?) panic in this country over...

Remember the LIBOR scandal? [P]erhaps as many as 16 – of the name-brand too-big-to-fail banks have been manipulating global interest rates, in the process messing around with the prices of upward of $500 trillion (that’s...

I grow weary of The Stupid. While some states are saving and making money by regulating marijuana sales, Georgia is sending helicopters around their state to seize people’s okra plants at gunpoint.

This song has nothing to do with the post below. It’s a bluesy little evening here in Philadelphia, where it looks like a royal shit storm has broken over public education as the School Reform Commission just unilaterally...