Archive for the tag 'French Revolution'

The revolution will be on speakerphone

Check this out. Putting Obama on Hold, in a Hint of Who’s Boss President Obama didn’t exactly look thrilled as he stared at the Polycom speakerphone in front of him. “Well, I appreciate you guys calling in,” he began the meeting at the White House with Wall Street’s top brass on Monday. He was, of [...]

The Greedy Invoke Christ

I know I have some devoutly Christian readership. Guys, please, you *have* to do something about this. I got it from Matt Taibbi’s blog, which is excellent: Goldman One-Ups Gordon Gekko, Says Jesus Embraced Greed “The injunction of Jesus to love others as ourselves is an endorsement of self-interest,” Goldman’s Griffiths said Oct. 20, his [...]

Waiting for Robin Hood

Every day, I read a little more about the financial crisis, and I get angry. Every day, I read a little more about someone near me becoming homeless due to foreclosure, and I get angry. Every day, I read another story about someone who has lost their job and can’t find another one, and I [...]

Take that, Marie Antionette!

Moms Rising is collecting stories of mothers and the economic fall. You can find those stories here. My tirade is there, under the same title as this blog. And as far as I’m concerned, I was pretty darned restrained. It is ludicrous, nay, ridiculous, perhaps egregious, that “our” policymakers (they are NOT lawmakers, folks, they [...]