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Jeremiah Wright: Right?! And Is This Another Black Sox Scandal?

by John May 17, 2012

“It was just a report.” “It was leaked by someone to the New York Times.” “It’s only a suggestion.  We would never consider such a political tactic.” That’s what we’re now hearing from supporters and SuperPacs of Mitt Romney about the report this morning on unleashing an ad campaign painting President as a black metro-sexual […]

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Campaign Zoo: Stop Feeding the Animals

by John May 14, 2012

The silly season is at its peak.  The time before the political conventions (Oh crap we have until summer) is loaded with each side trying to portray the other for the election. This goofiness is seen in all campaign ads, most weapons of mass destruction emails, and on the two cable news (entertainment) outlets that […]

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JPMorgan $2 Billion Loss and Morgenson

by John May 13, 2012

Good piece – and another perspective – from the New York Times’ Gretchen Morgenson. Clearly, CEO Jamie Dimon thinks JPMorgan only violated the Dimon Rule, not the Volcker Rule.  Overall, he’s right.  However, if the financial regulatory bill – Dodd-Frank – was passed in its entirety and not held up by Dimon’s and the other […]

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Understanding JPMorgan and $2 Billion Loss

by John May 11, 2012

Here’s a good piece that tries to explain what happened with JP Morgan and its $2 Billion derivative loss. Don’t feel bad if you don’t get it.  I worked in the financial field and it is still murky to me.  Furthermore, this stuff is way over the heads of the CEOs of these companies.  We […]

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Romney Bullying III: The Silliness of the Right

by John May 11, 2012

So, we covered the reasons you should ignore the hullabaloo over the Romney bullying story. And I told you to avoid cable news about the issue. Now, let’s ignore the right-wing websites. One of them is RedState.com.  I refer to them as RedMeat.com.  They’re highly partisan and loaded with half-truths and, in my opinion, laughable most […]

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So It Matters Where You Live?

by John May 10, 2012

This is a study from Pew Research.  It says folks in the northeast and mid-Atlantic states will have an easier time recovering from the Recession.  Notice the story was in the Hartford Courant. I need some comments from you. Does the study make sense? What should I do?  I am moving to North Carolina soon. And […]

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Romney Bullying II

by John May 10, 2012

Turn off the cable news.  Politics Nation with Al Sharpton is ridiculous.  The Reverend’s guests are just hammering Romney for the alleged bullying story when he was in prep school. What, is this their rebuttal to the Fox News antics about Obama’s birth certificate? Sharpton and his guests quote from the Washington Post story and […]

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Media Bias, Josh Beckett, Red Sox, and Changing Sports Landscape

by John May 10, 2012

 This is a follow-up from my post on banning college football – and what I see happening in sports in America.  Here’s my theory: The economy and our personal financial situations, it seems, are creeping into how we feel and react to sports – and our local teams.  I need your input here.  Again, right […]

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Romney Bullying: The Informed Not Inflamed Take

by John May 10, 2012

This story broke today about Mitt Romney’s youth. An in-depth examination of Mitt Romney’s teenage years at a prestigious private prep school describes an episode in which he bullied a fellow student and portrays Mr. Romney as a prankster who pushed boundaries. After the report came out, Mr. Romney on Thursday apologized for behavior that […]

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Storyful on Syria Bombing: The New Kind of News Syndication

by John May 10, 2012

Storyful.com is a news curation site.  Here’s what they had less than an hour after the bombing in Damascus, Syria today. This is the everyday person’s version of what the Associated Press and UPI used to be to the networks.  It’s worth subscribing to. Here’s the NYTimes piece. Who’s behind the bombing?  Is this a […]

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