The fantasy behind places like Revel is that there are people who have stupid amounts of money to spend, and that those people will choose to spend it at an Atlantic City casino. More than that, there are so many of those people that you can fill a 47 story hotel/resort with them regularly.
Our economy doesn't produce those people. Not anymore, at least.
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Dreaming Of The Glory Days
Bring the band back together.
They learned nothing.
The president should announce that he has told the Justice Department to appoint an independent investigator with bulldog instincts and bipartisan credibility. The list of candidates could start with Kenneth Starr, who chased down the scandals, real and imagined, of the Clinton presidency.
They learned nothing.
The State Department Is Run By Lizard People
The real issue here is that the staffers are a wee bit less cazy than the Reps.
The House GOP (and Senate, mostly) don't listen to the crazy base, they are the crazy base.
The House GOP (and Senate, mostly) don't listen to the crazy base, they are the crazy base.
Poverty Geography
I don't think it's a given that poor people in cities automatically have a community due to living in close proximity to others, but it is the case that cities tend to have public transit and social services that are lacking in the suburbs.
Love One Another
Senator Coburn will only support helping his state if others get some of their own suffering.
That's how they think.
That's how they think.
First They Came For The Civil Aviators
I suppose if this shit actually reflected concern about terrorism or drug trafficking, there'd be a story they could tell. But, HSBC.
Monday, May 20, 2013
Just Like Eschaton World Industries
Or, you know, not.
Some of these subsidiaries had no employees and were largely run by top officials from the company’s headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., according to Congressional investigators. But by officially locating them in places like Ireland, Apple was able to, in effect, make them stateless – exempt from taxes, record-keeping laws and the need for the subsidiaries to even file tax returns anywhere in the world.
In 2011, for example, one subsidiary paid Ireland just one-twentieth of 1 percent in taxes on $22 billion on pretax earnings from various operations; another did not file a corporate tax return anywhere and has paid almost nothing on $30 billion in profits since 2009.
Macho Posturing Without Empathy
I'm just not sure it's different than sadism. Sure, supporting the Iraq war was serious, but going door to door with giant guns telling Iraqis to suck on this, or supporting the war because you thought "the prudent use of violence could be therapeutic"(Richard Cohen) sure seems like sadism to me. After several years of a recession, mass foreclosures and long term unemployment, if you're still demanding pints of the blood of other people it's a bit more than just posturing.
The Suffering Of Other People
It's difficult to conclude that it's about anything other than sadism. Why are there so many sadists?
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Journamalism
It's telling that there hasn't been (that I've seen) pressure from other journalists for Karl to burn his source.
They never, ever do it.
They never, ever do it.
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