Month: November 2011

We all know the story to one degree or another. The financial sector set up a system that encouraged mortgage initiators to prefer subprime loans to prime loans. They stopped asking for any documentation proving an ability to...

Hi, I’m Steve M. Since 2002 I’ve been blogging at No More Mister Nice Blog, and BooMan has recently arrived at the conclusion that my grumpy, occasionally snickering responses to the decades-long domination of...

Once upon a time, America, a land of ponies and cheap gasoline, made the higher education of its citizens a priority, whether they be rich and privileged, poor and desperate or simply the children of the working middle class....

A new Pew survey finds this: In Congressional districts represented by Tea Party lawmakers, the number of people saying they disagree with the movement has risen significantly since it powered a Republican sweep in midterm...

It looks like #occupy tent cities are out.  Here is an alternate idea. Occupiers can organize themselves to be present at occupy sites 99 at a time, walking slowly in lines and columns through the site, always on the move....