The concert at the Lincoln Memorial brought back some memories that I hadn’t recalled for fifty years. There once was a time that was before Rock and Roll and even before the Civil Rights Movement. The South was segregated, apartied, whatever one calls such things looking back. But the music we heard on the Mall […]
We may have sucked at government recently, but we win music The most amazing part for me was hearing Pete Seeger [89] sing a Woodie Guthrie song at the Lincoln Memorial. When I was in college, one year I was in charge of our concert series. We booked his group, “The Weavers,” but the University […]
Closing Guantánamo In a long series of valedictory speeches and interviews, President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have been crowing about Guantánamo Bay, secret prisons and abusive interrogations, claiming they met the highest legal standards and that no prisoner had been tortured. Fortunately, the truth broke through the noise, in the words of some […]
The secret Downing Street memo The Sunday Times [London] May 1, 2005 DAVID MANNING From: Matthew Rycroft Date: 23 July 2002 S 195 02 cc: Defence Secretary, Foreign Secretary, Attorney-General, Sir Richard Wilson, John Scarlett, Francis Richards, CDS, C, Jonathan Powell, Sally Morgan, Alastair Campbell IRAQ: PRIME MINISTER’S MEETING, 23 JULY Copy addressees and you […]
from New York Times Hedge Funds, Unhinged Kenneth C. Griffin, the head of the Citadel Investment Group, whose funds lost roughly $10 billion last year. Citadel has blocked some withdrawals. LAST summer, Kenneth C. Griffin and his wife, Anne, hedge fund managers both, were so rich that they did something most wealthy couples don’t do […]
I’ve been so caught up in my rage at the outgoing government and my worries about the state of the nation Obama has been handed that I’ve forgotten some of what this election has actually been about. These kids posed for this picture at their school in Kenya, but when the camera wasn’t pointed at […]
NYT has Coast Guard video of the Hudson landing. It’s entitled Coast Guard Video of Plane Crash. The plane appears at 3:31:02 on the left of the screen. The first boat touches the plane at 3:35:01. Amazing!
Mr. Bush at His Best and Worst January 17, 2009 Addressing the nation for the last time as President Thursday night, George W. Bush identified September 11, 2001, as the defining moment of his eight years in office. The lesson of that awful day, he suggested, was that "good and evil are present in this […]
This is dry stuff, but it’s the most important stuff right now. This article is from Investopedia [the Wikipedia of Finance]. It is about the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, the Financial piece of the New Deal that established the FDIC and introduced banking regulation. The article was written by someone who thought it was too […]