On clashing egos and conflicting agendas (0)
6/12/12 •
I’ve got an article coming out in the journal Popular Music and Society, and it is now available online! Here is the abstract: Since its publication in 1950, Alan Lomax’s book Mister Jelly Roll, based on his 1926 interviews of Morton for the Library of Congress, has been a crucial source for jazz scholars. By [...]
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Hindsight: still clearer, pepper spray or no (0)
4/17/12 •
Brad Hicks already has an excellent post about it here, but a report has been released by the committee, led by former California Supreme Court Associate Justice Cruz Reynoso, which was charged with investigating the UC Davis pepper spray incident last November. And it’s even worse than you think. Not surprisingly to anyone who saw [...]
In “Unprecedented” Move, Obama Grows a Spine (and Republicans have a cow) (1)
1/05/12 •
On learning of the President’s recess appointments yesterday to both the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the long-suffering National Labor Relations Board, I was nothing but pleased. I felt encouraged that Obama had finally grown some spine and taken the only action possible, given Republicans’ demonstrated policy of total obstruction. I was surprised to [...]
Occupy Wall Street: Demanding What They’ve Earned (4)
11/10/11 •
There is a theme I’ve been noticing in much of the criticism of Occupy Wall Street. It is something along these lines: protesting economic inequality is just outspoken jealousy; the protesters are demanding something they haven’t earned. This theme underlies Herman Cain’s famous comment, “If you don’t have a job and you’re not rich, blame [...]
Book Review: Truth and Consequences: Life Inside the Madoff Family (0)
11/10/11 •
At this moment, hundreds of people are camped out across the country in protest of Wall Street greed and most of us are struggling to understand how the richest 1% of Americans wound up with 40% of the wealth. At a time like this, who isn’t a little curious about the man who did greed [...]
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