New Orleans The rush to judgment, public lynching of Shirley Sherrod speaks less to me about the stark avoidance of race, though absolutely that retreat is correctly the headline, than what it further exposes about the cowardice of conviction in the mindless process of media call-and-response where seeking face time and sound bites seems to …
Author: wade
Power and Farce of Credit Scores
New Orleans Joe Nocera, the “Talking Business” columnist for the New York Times wrote a “peoples” piece today, which is worth a couple of atta-boys! The whole problem of home mortgages and the ridiculous power of credit scores (FICO scores) could be the subject of whole books for the scam involved and the damage done, …
Energy Politics in California: PG&E versus Chevron
San Francisco After a day of meetings by chance I was invited to sit in as a guest for a while at a monthly dinner on Mission at La Corneta of an ad hoc group of seasoned labor activists and organizers. After a while Mike Miller threw a topic on the table that everyone jumped …