Author: Arthur Gilroy

I really do not know why, but every time I look at Sarah Palin I am reminded of the woman who is featured in the Planter’s Peanut commercial. YOU know…the homely woman who scents herself with Planter’s peanuts...

In a reply to a comment that I made on Booman’s post A Kaleidoscope Vote, Booman responded by calling me a “Jacobin”. Here is the phrase to which he was responding: Fuck it. Whole hog plus postage. Let the...

What if they threw an economic collapse and nobody came? Every few years it’s another “Hottest Thing Ever!!!” Fitzmasses all. Reverse Fitzmasses. It ALL tends towards the mean. Naaaaahhhhh…not that kind...

I am now hearing endless blather from incompetent hustlers about how we must “…preserve the credit system of this great nation or we face disaster!!! Without credit, no one will be able to get loans to start...

When the Enron bubble burst several years ago I wrote that Enron was just a snapshot of the rot that has been spreading through the American business system for more than 40 years. Malcolm X said of JFK’s assassination...