I posted this over at Jack Lessenberry’s place in response to the emotional-laden tripe he has been writing in support of a Little Three bailout: “hard stuff, hard choices, hope, blood, tears, toil, sweat” … blah, blah blah. Hey Lessenberry, for all of your coverage on this, how ’bout the Little Three’s balance sheets? Ya [...]

Nice article on MSNBC. The jobless rate has climbed past 21 percent, the embattled school district just fired its superintendent, tens of thousands of homes and stores are derelict and abandoned, the ex-mayor is in jail for a text-messaging sex scandal. …Detroit’s crime, poverty, unemployment and school dropout rates are among the worst of any [...]

George Carlin on people who entertain themselves at the mall all day and eat shit food.

The first clip is a three-minute, mid-70s clip of Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and John Wayne on the Tonight Show, with the sensational Don Rickles substituting for Johnny Carson. Note the Don Rickles comment to Crosby: “Bing, this is television.” It’s three minutes of sheer joy from four class acts. The thing I like most [...]

My new, favorite Christmas classic. ‘Twas the night before Bailout, when all through the Board,Directors were scrambling, cash and stock options to horde.Their loans were defaulting, their stock values shrinking,Everyone hoping that St. Paulson would soon be ringing. The executives were nestled all snug in their silken ties,While visions of cash and bonuses flew about [...]

What’s more, these Alabama representatives argued that they and other southern states had plenty of automotive manufacturing capacity to take up the slack and keep the country’s economy going if Detroit was to go belly up. Specifically, Alabama’s Republican senator Richard Shelby called Detroit a ‘dinosaur’ and said bankruptcy was a better solution to the [...]

My new article is up at Taki’s Magazine: “Consumer Kids and Their Plastic Lives.” It’s about the shopping-mall brats with boring, little lives who buy, buy, buy. Having just visited the Mall of America (yikes!) last weekend, I can attest to the fact that even in these difficult economic times their pathetic shopping habits are [...]

I was elated to see this version of “Ol’ Man River” on YouTube. It was interesting to read the comments below the video. “Ol’ Man River” has been a controversial song through the years. However, it is also considered one of the greatest songs of 20th century American music. This version by Bing, in his [...]

George Bush in July 2008: “Should the government bail out private enterprise? The answer is no, it shouldn’t,

Disgraced investor Bernard Madoff made an appearance at the Manhattan federal courthouse to complete paperwork for his bail after a judge set new conditions for release, including a curfew and monitoring bracelet. Madoff, wearing a baseball cap and a black jacket, said nothing to reporters as he walked out of the building and drove away [...]