New Orleans Like a modern version of the 12 days before Christmas, I think we could all start listing a daily beating we are taking from business, government, or both. Yesterday news came out that a fair chunk of the $26 billion settlement with banks over their home mortgage scandals and abuses with the state …
Month: March 2012
If Occupy Miami is the Present, Is there an Occupy Future?
New Orleans It’s time to take another look at the state of the Occupy movement in the USA. It’s not easy. It’s an eyesore and a headache. From city to city where Occupy still holds some ground (speaking in a spatial, rather than a political sense) they continue to be rooted out like the last vestiges …
Can Komen for the Cure be Reformed?
New Orleans To me the issue was settled. Nancy Brinker and Komen for the Cure had caved into pressure from the right wing and Cecile Richards and Planned Parenthood had taken them to the woodshed and taught them a lesson about what women really care about and in so doing administered a public humiliation that permanently …