New Orleans Steven Spielberg’s new movie, Lincoln, is getting a lot of reviews these days in the political commentary and op-ed pages, rather than in the Arts sections for its message to Americans about politics. We signed up, sat day, and saw the flick last night in the suburbs where it was showing. On the plus …
Category: Ideas and Issues
No Real Loan Forgiveness, Re-segregate and Leaving All Children Behind, Arizona Voter Suppression, Weird Germans, and Lincoln Like Politics
New Orleans No Real Loan Forgiveness, Just More Bank Scams “…the main purpose of the settlement was to keep people in their homes. Yet the report shows that $13 billion of debt has been written off in 113,500 short sales, versus $2.5 billion in 22,000 principal-reduction loan modifications. Those numbers raise questions about which types …
Disaggregating the News in 500 Words or Less
New Orleans Supposedly one of the more popular things on Google, Yahoo, Huffington Post, and a score of other sites is their ability to “aggregate” the news. I wonder if what we really need is some clear, crawlspaces allowing us to escape out from under the avalanche of information burying us alive. Here’s a short, idiosyncratic …