Waveland The holidays are slow news days, but not no news days. One item that caught my attention in the list of big stories of the year was the ongoing tale of domestic surveillance in the USA, which I reread again. Much of this was the post-9/11 reality that we forget is as much about us, as …
Tag: Occupy Wall Street
The Money Contradictions of Roemer and Americans Elect
New Orleans Buddy Roemer was a confusing and contradictory Louisiana politician as a one-term governor of the state several decades ago as he jumped from party to party and issue to issue. He just didn’t seem comfortable or made for the job, but in the strange way of public life, he has spent the last year …
Dunning Dead Debt-beats and the Occupy Anthropology of Debt
New Orleans The notion that there might be a “house theorist” in the tent cities of the Occupy movement was interesting in and of itself, but the fact that such soul would be David Graeber who recently wrote, Debt: The First 5000 Years, was even more interesting to me. This whole debt thing is …