Taking in Charles Ferguson's excellent documentary, Inside Job, about the dark doings of Wall Street in our time, I confess I was awestruck all over again at the complete surrender of Obama to the very…
Posts published in March 2011
Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. First up I must offer apologies on behalf of Gloria Ross and her crew for the cancellation of the monthly Barn Sale…
A couple of Saturdays ago, and in a significant break with ’tradition’, Bill somehow managed to get an invite to my house to do his interview and after opening a couple of beers we sat…
“More relative than this—the play's the thing / Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.” — William Shakespeare Yes, it will only be a staged reading in a tiny theater on the fringes of…
Dear Dr. Zack, Please help me, as I am about to lose my mind, or what's left of it. For the past few years, instead of people saying “First of all ... Secondly, thirdly, fourthly…
Raj Patel's first book, Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System, can be read as a ten-chapter exegesis on the ills of global capitalism, as manifested by its gut-wrenching stranglehold over…
It has taken more than a year just to get to the preliminary hearing in the Juda and Hugo Cruz case. Juda is the father, Hugo is the son. They are co-defendants. The Cruzes…