Posts tagged “blogs”
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Occasionally Offensive reviews Bad Shoes and the Women Who Love Them
September 13, 2011
I recommend this book for red-carpet type women who love teetering sexy shoes, and for run-with-the-wolves women who are baffled by people who spend hundreds of dollars on torture devices which they they wear of their own volition.
Tags: bad shoes and the women who love them, blogs, leora tanenbaum, reviews
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Zinn Reader reviewed at This Week at the Library
November 24, 2009
The Zinn Readeris one man’s commentary on his and the United States’ history and development. Zinn is a character in a larger story, responding to the historical events that unfold around him. Zinn is very much involved with history: for him, the idea that the historian is and must be neutral is wrong, fallacious even. Historians, and scholars in general, have the right and duty as human beings to respond to what is happening in their world — to champion the causes they see as righteous and to attack with fervency what injustice and lies they can. — This Week at the Library
Tags: blogs, howard zinn, reviews, this week at the library, zinn reader
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David Swanson: “Eric Holder is addressing a war crime without addressing the wars”
August 28, 2009
As [Attorney General Eric] Holder left an appropriations subcommittee hearing on April 23rd I spoke up loudly from the third row: “We need a special prosecutor for torture, Mr. Attorney General. Americans like the rule of law. The rule of law for everybody.”
He replied as he approached me and walked by, surrounded by body guards, “And you will be proud of your government.”
I was joined by others in replying simultaneously, “Yes, we want to be proud of our government. We’re ready. No need to wait.”
Four months later, last Monday, Holder appointed a special prosecutor, but only for particular incidents of torture and with this important, and illegal, limitation announced by Holder: “[T]he Department of Justice will not prosecute anyone who acted in good faith and within the scope of the legal guidance given by the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) regarding the interrogation of detainees.” — from David Swanson’s “Holder’s Bad Applism and Our Own”
Tags: articles, blogs, david swanson, daybreak, politics/government
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Derrick Jensen with Richard Metzger of Dangerous Minds
July 28, 2009
On July 20, Derrick Jensen sat down for a Skype conversation with Richard Metzger from Dangerous Minds to talk about the environment and the ideas in Endgame and What We Leave Behind. According to Metzger’s site: “Dangerous Minds is a compendium of the new and strange—new ideas, new art forms, new approaches to social issues and new finds from the outer reaches of pop culture.”
Tags: Authors, blogs, derrick jensen, endgame, environment, interviews, what we leave behind
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Who caused the economic crisis? Simon Johnson and John Talbott at Salon.com, Part I
July 22, 2009
From June to July, John R. Talbott, author of The 86 Biggest Lies on Wall Street and Obamanomics, sat down at his keyboard with Simon Johnson, the Ronald A. Kurtz professor of entrepreneurship at MIT, former chief economist of the IMF and current BaselineScenario.com blogger and cofounder, for an exchange of emails and ideas. The topic of conversation:
The economic crisis: Who caused it? Was it preventable? Was criminal activity involved in bringing it about? And is it over?
Tags: 86 biggest lies on wall street, articles, Authors, blogs, john talbott, salon.com, simon johnson
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John Talbott to Obama: 10 financial reforms we really need
June 23, 2009
From CNBC’s “Bullish on Books” blog, here’s John Talbott’s response to Obama’s financial reform plan: the ten reforms that we really need to end this financial crisis—and to prevent the criminal activity that caused the crisis in the first place.
Tags: 86 biggest lies on wall street, articles, Authors, blogs, cnbc, financial crisis, john r talbott
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Get Together, Slim Down by Linh Dinh
June 2, 2009
Before American steel mills went silent, Lowry Graham’s dad labored in one for four decades. A high school graduate, he was more educated than most of his co-workers. He liked his job, became a foreman and was proud of it.
It was a dirty, backbreaking and sometimes lethal occupation. At the start of World War II, steel workers had to go on strike to demand, among other concessions, a ten-minute lunch break and a room to shower and change at the end of the day.
Lowry went to college and became a nurse, but his goal was to have more control over his life than his father did. To gain time, he was willing to make less money. “I wanted to be able to do laundry in the afternoon if I felt like it,” he told me. In the 80’s, Lowry bought cheap properties just beyond Center City, on a block considered iffy, if not suicidal. Neighbors tagged him the “pizza man,” as in, “Pizza man, can you give me some money for a slice?”
Tags: Authors, blogs, blood and soap, economy, linh dinh, love like hate
