New Orleans In the land of the bizarre there was a brief interview with Glenn Beck, radio personality and rabid right winger in the Times recently. Finally, we can get a better sense of what really drives Beck: he just wants to be loved. He is one big, smiley lump of deeply felt grievances …
Month: September 2013
Finding Your Name in Big Data with Acxiom
New Orleans There haven’t been too many new buildings constructed in Little Rock in the years since I lived there. Sure there’s the Clinton Library, but the only sort of tall one near the interstate downtown bears the name Acxiom, making me curious about what in the world they do there. It turns out that …
Counting the Votes against Larry Summers at the Federal Reserve
New Orleans Counting the votes seems to be an increasingly big challenge for President Obama and his Administration. The most well known problem today involves Syria where he can’t seem to get the United Nations Security Council or a majority of the G-20 largest industrial countries to back military strikes in that country to protest with …