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Monthly Archives: June 2012

Solidarity, Brother!

Friday, June 8, 2012

  Private sector Unions in New York join with business interests and DINO Andrew Cuomo to destroy public sector unions. What do they think those folks will do once they succeed with state workers? Maybe they ought to listen a little closer to Scott Walker.  

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It’s good to be a plutocrat

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Yet another example of the Obama Justice Department doing just what one would have expected from the Bush Justice Department: The Obama administration is set to urge a federal appeals court to reinstate a $1.5 million music filing-sharing verdict a jury levied against a Minnesota woman for sharing two dozen songs on Kazaa. At issue […]

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Honor among thieves

Monday, June 4, 2012

The inestimable Gretchen Morgenstern unearths yet another example of corporate crime, soon to disappear, unpunished, into the infinite number of memory holes at the Justice Department and the SEC: Days before Bank of America shareholders approved the bank’s $50 billion purchase of Merrill Lynch in December 2008, top bank executives were advised that losses at […]

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Back from the wet North

Monday, June 4, 2012

I haven’t blogged for a few days, as my wife and I were up in Maine at my XXth College reunion. There is no need to go into further numerical details here, though it is safe to say that I am, to put it kindly, on the brink of geezerdom, or perhaps, already in the […]

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