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Shock and Awe

May 9, 2012 By Gary Corseri Leave a Comment

Gary Corseri: They told us it would be over soon; They told us it would save our lives. But our children’s eyes hardened like peach pits. More years passed than our youth.

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Assassins, Battlefields, Bilge, Corridors, Feral Eyes, Foes, Freedom Fries, Gary Corseri, Hot Dogs, Jimmy Stewart, Livelihoods, Mickey Rooney, Nobility, Particulars, Peach Pits, Refuges, Salt In Our Wounds, Shock And Awe, Special Ops, Unpronounceable Names

Timeless Absurdity: Revisiting “A Confederacy of Dunces”

May 8, 2012 By Kathleen Peine Leave a Comment

Kathleen Peine: The only thing more bizarre than the protagonist of this book is the way that it ended up being published, but I’ll get back to that story later. It’s a crazy tale.

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Absurdity, Confederacy Of Dunces, Crap, Freshness, Good Manner, john kennedy, John Kennedy Toole, new orleans, novel, Protagonist, pulitzer prize, Stuff, Zealot

What Really Is Middle Age?

May 7, 2012 By Jim Cullen Leave a Comment

Jim Cullen: In Our Prime has an even tone and intellectual depth that talks frankly about some of the most dismaying aspects of the aging process.

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Adolescence, Aptitude, Cultural Construction, Erik Erickson, Foundation Money, Infancy, Longitudinal Studies, mass media, Middle Age, Midlife, Neurological Research, New York Times, Patricia Cohen, Personal Identity, Plastic Nature, Psychologists, Rejoinder, sigmund freud, Stanley Hall, Youth Culture, Zenith

John Peeler: Clements reminds us that corporations exist only because they are chartered by governments (most commonly by the state of Delaware), and that the charter may be revoked if the corporation ceases to serve the public good.

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Blacks In The South, Campaign Finance Law, Campaign Spending, Citizens United, Corporate Domination, Corporate Lawyer, Corporate Personhood, Court Majority, Disfranchisement, Fifteenth Amendments, Fourteenth Amendment, Free Speech Rights, Freed Slaves, Justice Lewis Powell, Labor Unions, Mccain Feingold, Passionate Guide, Reconstruction Period, Rights Amendment, supreme court justice

Controlled Energy

May 2, 2012 By Jim Cullen Leave a Comment

Jim Cullen: In More Powerful than Dynamite: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York’s Year of Anarchy, young Thai Jones resurrects a lost metropolis

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Ayres, Bill Ayers, Blurbs, Bomb Blast, Campaign Headquarters, Controlled Energy, Fellow Traveler, Forthcoming Titles, Fugitives From Justice, Greenwich Village, Leftist Politics, Lexington Avenue, Marge Piercy, Mitchel, New York City Mayor, Noam Chomsky, Progressives, Radicals, Samuel G Freedman, Weather Underground

Jean Chatzky’s Three Favorite Money Rules

April 20, 2012 By Manisha Thakor Leave a Comment

Manisha Thakor: We have to remember that we’re not going to be perfect. If we fall back, we need to give ourselves a break, take a deep breath, and try once again.

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: 401 K Plans, American Population, Automatic Enrollment, Birds Eye View, Book Money, Bruce Greenwald, Columbia University, Escalation, Financial Literacy, Imple, Jean Chatzky, Joseph Stiglitz, Money Rules, Personal Finance Books, Personal Finances, Professor Joseph, Proud Parent, Space Constraints, Vanity Fair, Yikes

Rachel Maddow for Something

April 20, 2012 By Tom Hayden 6 Comments

Tom Hayden: No one in Congress seems able to say, like Maddow, that starting the Iraq war “took deceit and trickery on the part of the Bush Administration and severe chickenshittery on the part of Congress.”

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Andrew Bacevich, Boldness, C Wright Mills, Crackpot, Entangling Alliances, Gadfly, Isolationist, Leviathan, Liberal Wing, Military Perspective, Military Priorities, National Security State, Noam Chomsky, Patriotic Tradition, Peanut Gallery, Rachel Maddow, Realists, Standing Armies, Straight Talk, Time Passes

Mother Earth & The Four Sister Elements

April 17, 2012 By H. Scott Prosterman Leave a Comment

This poem is a comprehensive and cautionary tribute to “Mother Earth & The Four Sister Elements,” with references to Judaism, Islam, politics, Traditional Chinese Medicine and that quaint old thing called “Science.”

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Acceptance Speech, Aeronautic, Carlos Santana, Chinese Medicine, Custodians, Earth Day, Favorite Spot, Generation To Generation, Haight Street, Hard As A Rock, Judaism Islam, Lord Of Hosts, Mother Earth, Serene, Steward, Stewards, Top Of The Food Chain, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tribute To Mother, Vough

I Ain’t No Miss Sobriety

April 9, 2012 By Kristen Johnson 1 Comment

Kristen Johnson: What happens after you write a bestselling memoir about recovery? As the author of Guts (and star of 3rd Rock from the Sun) I am discovering it’s hard to keep it simple when you’re a sober superhero.

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Absolute Truth, Cocktail Party, Dinner Party, Follies, Guts, Harpo Studios, Little Sand, Memoir, Meth, Nuggets, Nyone, Oprah, Rehabs, Relapse, Sand Traps, Snorting Drugs, Sobriety, Travails, Triumphs, Whitney Houston

Seeds of a Quiet Economic Revolution

April 8, 2012 By Maria Armoudian Leave a Comment

Maria Armoudian: What would happen, for example, if the so-called 99 percent ignored the 1 percent and began to build a new economic model from the ground floor up?

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Big Picture, Capitalism, Central Messages, Cracks, Decay, democracy, Economic Model, Economic Revolution, Economic System, Gar Alperovitz, New Economy, Phenomena, Scholar, Seeds, Strategy Research, Treatise, Two Thirds, Veneer, Visionary, Worries

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Shock and Awe

Timeless Absurdity: Revisiting “A Confederacy of Dunces”

What Really Is Middle Age?

Corporations Are Not People

Controlled Energy

Jean Chatzky’s Three Favorite Money Rules

Rachel Maddow for Something

Mother Earth & The Four Sister Elements

I Ain’t No Miss Sobriety

Seeds of a Quiet Economic Revolution

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