This is genuinely troubling (via): The Washington Post company is most identified with its newspaper, the Washington Post. But in fact its biggest source of revenue is its Kaplan subsidiary. Kaplan, in turn, is primarily identified with test prep work. [….] Fairly reasonably, the Obama administration has proposed that taxpayers stop subsidizing programs with dismal …
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Open Thread: Welcome to the Asylum!
Self-described “conservative of the century” Richard Viguerie is sending me emails again: (Manassas, Virginia) Richard A. Viguerie, Chairman of ConservativeHQ.com, has launched a petition drive to House Republican leaders John Boehner and Eric Cantor urging them not to intervene to keep Congresswoman Michele Bachmann from being elected as Chairwoman of the House Republican Caucus. __ …
Socialists Against NBC-Comcast Merger
Sen. Bernie Sanders, “self-described democratic socialist“, sent me an e-mail: JUST SAY NO TO THE NBC-COMCAST MERGER! __ The recent suspension of Keith Olberman by MSNBC raises the larger question of corporate control of the media in the United States. Thanks to the response of hundreds of thousands of Americans, Keith was reinstated. But without …
Take me to the airport and put me on a plane
I’ve been ignoring the stories about Chris Christie’s expense reports, because I travel to New York for work a lot and it really is tough to get midtown hotels much under $300 a night sometimes. But $236 is a lot for a ride from downtown Boston to Logan: In Boston, Christie could have taken a …
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Better to leave the lights off
There’s a new study on how high-profile academic financial economists are paid to do the bidding of our Galtian overlords: In this study, we showed that the great majority of two groups of prominent academic financial economists did not disclose their private financial affiliation even when writing pieces on financial reform. This presents a potential …
BP BS on Stilts
The Washington Post dutifully stenographs a sterling example of political three-card monte in the service of the Plutonomy: Money concerns didn’t drive Deepwater Horizon decisions, panel counsel says __ The chief counsel for the president’s oil spill commission said Monday that concerns about money didn’t drive key decisions made on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig …
New Vocabulary Word: “Plutonomy”
This is heavy reading for a Sunday evening, but I’ve been waiting for a ‘good’ time to post the link all week. From “Welcome to the Plutocracy”, the speech Bill Moyers gave at Boston University on October 29, 2010, as a part of the Howard Zinn Lecture Series: … When Howard came down to New …