Thursday: Things that shouldn’t need to be said but…

1.) Susie Madrak found this post by George Lakoff that I think everyone in the left blogosphere should read and commit to heart.  It’s about the Santorum Strategy and what is really going on with the Republican primary. Liberals tend to underestimate the importance of public discourse and its effect on the brains of our [...]

Monday: Well, that went well

Greece is most seriously displeased over the new austerity measures foist upon it by foreign lenders: Though it came after days of intense debate and the resignation of several ministers in protest, in the end the vote on the austerity measures was not close: 199 in favor and 74 opposed, with 27 abstentions or blank [...]

They’re few, rich and vulnerable?

Pearls of Wisdom:  ”If you offer to do demonstrations at a science fair hoping to pick up some networking business cards, your profession has just slid off the deep end” Picked up at Susie Madrak’s site, this study purports to show who are the richest of the rich and how they are interconnected in a [...]

Wednesday News

Good Morning Conflucians!!! First up in weird news, in case you’re not already getting that apocalyptic vibe from earlier this week, more birds have suddenly died, this time not in Arkansas, but in Louisiana: Birds dropping dead from the skies and rivers flowing with tens of thousands of dead fish sounds like a cheesy Hollywood [...]

Tuesday: Rev. Wright, Journolist, Goldman, oh my!

Hello Conflucians! It’s a little too late to say good morning, I guess. I slept very late today–I’m so ashamed. Dakinikat asked me to fill in for her this morning, so I’m going to put up a potpourri of stories that have caught my eye today. Here is a good place to start: more leaks [...]

Thursday: Blogospheric Uproar

Good Morning Conflucians!!! I hope you’ll forgive me if I spend some time today wallowing in a bit of media gossip. The past week hasn’t been all that great for the “progressive” blogger boyz. Poor Markos found out he got cheated by Research 2000, the polling firm he’s been paying for the past year. So [...]

Was Obama Wall Street’s BIGGEST Short?

You gotta love Lloyd Blankfein for finally telling it like it is.  Wall Street thinks we’re all suckers.  If you don’t specifically ask whether a security or CDO is crap, shitty or junk, they have no obligation to tell you.  That’s not their job.  They just sell the stuff.  It’s the 2010 version of “I [...]

Monday Morning News and Views

Good Morning Conflucians!!! I’ve got a bit of a news potpourri for you this morning. There isn’t any huge story that the media is hyping at the moment. Are the corporate media trying to downplay financial “reform?” Before I begin, Lambert at Corrente is involved in organizing a Fiscal Sustainability Teach-In Counter-Conference and he’s trying [...]

No, Mr. President, the majority of your campaign donations did NOT come from small donors.

Via Ani at No Quarter, President Obama gave an interview to John Harwood at CNBC this week. Harwood began the interview by asking the following question: In the 2008 campaign, you got a lot of money, about a million dollars from employees of Goldman Sachs. Your former White House Counsel, Greg Craig (PH) is apparently [...]

Lazy Saturday News and Views

Good Morning, Conflucians!!!! It’s a gorgeous Saturday morning here in the Boston ‘burbs. I just love Spring! Personally, I’m still mainly interested in the Blago-Rezko-Obama story, but there is some other news today. ECONOMIC MELTDOWN The New York Times informs us that Rating Agency Data Aided Wall Street in Mortgage Deals Yes, as you probably [...]