By DAVID BROOKS
Published: July 22, 2008
On the front page of Sunday’s Times, Gretchen Morgenson described Diane McLeod’s spiral into indebtedness, and now a debate has erupted over who is to blame.
Some people emphasize the predatory lenders who seduced her with too-good-to-be-true credit lines and incomprehensible mortgage offers. Here was a single mother made vulnerable [...]
HRC’s radio silence in the face of her supporters is really inexecusable and everytime I see one of her sycophants demand that Obama make one of these denunviations it makes me see red.
I’m not talking about the PUMA Republican fronters, but the ostensible Democrats, who mewl about just not trusting Obama or understanding what he [...]
During the Labour party conference in September, one big beast was doing the rounds of the parties with a plan for Gordon Brown. First, the Prime Minister should fall on his sword for the greater good of the party. It was then necessary, according to this former cabinet minister, for the party to find a [...]
MikeT – I can definitely relate to how you’re feeling right now. In the first 3 months my son was born, it felt as if someone had lent me some exquisitely valuable piece of stereo equipment that need constant TLC. It was all Duty, Duty, Duty on a 24 x 7 schedule that never let [...]
When purchasing a new vehicle you will get what is called a factory installed air filter. And when you have your oil changed at a quick lube, they will ask if you want it replaced. Usually, they will replace it with a factory equivalent quality filter that will most likely need to be replaced about [...]
The worst thing about Mccain is that he is devider. It is a scary thought he tries so hard to do that. He even tried to make sure Obama repudiated REP Lewis an American ICON a person who fought for this country to be a free and true to its identity. A person who changed [...]
Or, seriously, why wouldn’t the Obama campaign bring Sinbad to the stage for this one? Don’t they owe him for calling out Hillary Clinton’s b-s about that “hair-raising” trip to Bosnia back in 1996? That incident, as much as anything, sealed her fate in the primary.
Please forgive me I Didn’t post for long. My current projects have taken all my sources. Below is a video on how I’m feeling right now.
The Santogold stuff along with J*Davey and Janelle Monáe I find pretty thin. I can’t quite put my finger on it but there is something disingenuous about what they do. I can understand the desire of black folks of a certain age to want a subcultural adolescence outside of hip hop and soul. I also [...]
