Look, given the bang-up job he did running MF Global, surely Corzine deserved another luxury house or five?
new gilded age
Paul's evisceration of Gene Marks' Gilded Age-esque article telling poor black kids to be rich and white and blaming them if they are not, led me to this legendary Herblock.
Newt clarifies his comments from last week that poor students should replace janitors in schools. They shouldn't do all the work. Just jobs like cleaning the bathrooms. And doesn't this.
This ain't good: Three arms of government, all ostensibly representing the same people, have been at an impasse over who should be responsible for — and pay for — prosecuting people accused of misdemeanor cases of domestic violence. City leaders had blamed the Shawnee County...
Well, leave it to the always excellent Sesame Street to be one of the first major artistic endeavors to take on the current economic crisis, reaching to the growing number.
Needless to say, I don't have much to add to Krugman and Rortybomb. The deal, once you accept that the cave-in on extending the Bush tax cuts was inevitable, was.