New Orleans I don’t have the energy on a Labor Day for the anger, but there’s no escaping the ironies! The New York Times writes an editorial on “Labor Day, Now and Then,” and while noting that Labor Day dates earlier than other holidays mindlessly say the following: “…nature doesn’t seem quite as rude as …
Month: September 2010
Day Laborers and Immigrants Rule in “Machete”
New Orleans The search for movies with a politically satirical message is unwavering and someone has to do it, so there we were at opening night for the world release for “Machete,” the new Richard Rodriguez blood and gore flick, and we were thumbs up all the way. In fact our friends at NDLON, the …
New Program: More Bailout, More Drowning
New Orleans President Obama, Secretary Geithner, and the rest of the hapless pickup crew that flubs around in the housing and foreclosure crises came together to “repurpose” yet more of the TARP money that was set aside for home mortgage modifications that might prevent foreclosures and threw $15 billion of the total at some homeowners …