Archive for the 'Zinya's Page' Category


25
Sep

Columbia’s Bollinger slams Ahmadenijad: Bush’s contagious behavior?

Yes, I think that yesterday we saw a potent manifestation of the contagion of our era, a mode of how to comport oneself with others that is modeled (MBA-style?) by Mr. Insolence-in-Chief himself. It had the stamp of a particularly neoconnish brand of disdainful arrogance. And it wasn’t coming from the upstart of […]


19
Sep

Binary choices on Iran wherein Cheney does “end run” around Bush?

Okay, too much silence around here might not be as spooky as too much silence about Iran, but enough is enough.
In the latest follow-up to all the stage-setting documented already below here in Montfort’s post on the administration’s warmongering toward Iran from about three weeks back, this morning’s salon.com has a few […]


22
Aug

Reprehensibly Rich: Bush tax cuts redux

aka “You take our breath away.”
Reprehensibly: That’s beyond revoltingly rich, and with a twist: it’s richesse at the expense of everybody and everything else, self-indulgent, spoonfed government dole-out wealth on an IRS silver platter. These are the same folks already getting exponentially greater boon to their ledgers from everything the government […]


18
Aug

An Angolan parallel in Iraq?

A recent article in slate by Columbia economics professor Ray Fisman, drawing on a forthcoming paper in American Economic Review [”Diamonds Are Forever, Wars Are Not. Is Conflict Bad for Private Firms?“] by fellow economists Massimo Guidolin and Eliana La Ferrara, takes the answer to their question [i.e., no, not necessarily, and sometimes it is […]


17
Aug

John Edwards, (his own) lenders, Lakoff, bumper stickers, & blind trust(s)

Friday’s Wall Street Journal [sorry, can’t link] reported on 34 foreclosures in New Orleans, foreclosures by subprime lending companies which, it turns out, were invested in by the hedge fund (Fortress), which in turn John Edwards has been invested in — and which has hired him as advisor — all fully disclosed, never hidden, but […]


13
Aug

Childrearing & Politics: Red State, Blue State, Purple Butts

I’m not quite sure what all to make of it [though i’m about to make a lot of it anyway], and maybe I’m the only one only now belatedly seeing this, but I just google-stumbled [googlumbled?] on a nationwide survey on childrearing practices taken in August 2005, where 600 adults (18 and over, half male, […]


05
Aug

NB to LA Times: a little legWORK goes a long way too

Okay, LA Times. Just what kind of service are you providing your readership anymore? Isn’t tracking California’s two Senators’ votes, like, a no-brainer as one of your daily monitorings?
Isn’t having one of your home-state Democratic Senators join the GOP and become the decisive vote sending a controversial nominee — Mississippi’s Leslie Southwick, controversial […]


04
Aug

Senate Simpering Sellout 16 Sabotage Surveillance Sanity

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That’s one giant hiss, and most of all to the women, and most most of all to the one who is one of my Senators … and not for the first time, sellout Diane Feinstein (aka DiFi) … who was inexcusably enabling Bush already back in 2001 …. and 2002 … but still in 2007?!?! […]


30
Jul

In which the LA Times proves embarrassingly indulgent of lying

If you haven’t yet seen this last Saturday’s LAT lead editorial, it’s a real winner and sign of just how much the Emperor’s Clothes Era is still with us.
What a sad and embarrassing editorial, embarrassing for those of us who have been LA Times readers all our lives [There’s a photo of me […]


29
Jul

If it isn’t good for Bush, it isn’t good for the globe.

It’s classic MBA Presidency stuff (btw, Why aren’t all the MBAs in the nation rising up and calling for Bush’s impeachment? Hasn’t he singlehandedly devalued the stock of an MBA sheepskin forever?): “What’s good for GM is good for the nation.” When was the last time that flag got hoisted in public? […]

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