Hot potato cartoons
What happens when the cartoonist who draws the story becomes the story? Opinion editors offer an interesting discussion of the Doonesbury vaginal ultrasound cartoons, what their readers are telling them, and what they’re doing about the controversial cartoons, if anything. Read this.
Local culture goes into the Mixmaster
Kentucky Derby, New Year’s Eve — the Industrial Entertainment Complex has turned these distinct rituals into a blob.
THROWING AMERICAN TRADITION INTO THE MIXMASTER
Tags: culture, Kentucky, media, New York City
Trials of Ric Grenell
Why gay Republicans put up with it, I don’t know. But I did ask R. Clarke Cooper, head of the Log Cabin Republicans.
Tags: culture, gays, politics, Republicans, right wing
The shareholder revolt against Citigroup CEO pay
Business was not popular after World War II, a reflection of enduring anger over the Great Depression and some profiteering during the war. Thus was born a “norm” in which business had to share its prosperity with labor.
In the wake of the 2008 financial meltdown, perhaps some of that norm is returning. Or is this wishful thinking?
DREAMING OF A NEW ‘NORM’ FOR EXECUTIVE PAY
Tags: business, culture, economy, labor, Washington
Women don’t have time on their side
For most women, time is the most valuable commodity.
Responding to rewards and punishments
Like my dear departed mutt Gina, we humans respond to rewards and punishments. That applies to CEOs and blue-collar workers alike.
WHY GOOD FACTORY JOBS GO BEGGING
Being THERE on the Titanic (and other disasters)
When unexpected things go wrong in slow motion: The Titanic and the Twin Towers were two examples.
BEING IN A DISASTER AS IT UNFOLDS
Tags: California, culture, media
Why the right went after the Chevy Volt
Surviving an outrageous right-wing smear campaign, the Chevy Volt goes on. Only a weird set of politics would try to kill this sterling example of American ingenuity.
THE CAR THE RIGHT WING CAN’T KILL
Tags: Detroit, economy, energy, Obama, right wing, technology
Occupy Movement and the public
Unlike the tea partiers, the Occupy Movement never became politically active, a possibly mixed blessing for Democrats.
Anyhow, the tent cities and the disruptions they caused were getting old.
KEEP THE OCCUPIED MOVEMENT OCCUPIED
Romney on the beach
You’ve got to scratch your head over a private-equity zillionaire running for president at a time of great middle-class angst deciding that NOW is a good time to build a $12 million beachfront Xanadu in La Jolla.
Tags: 2012, politics, Republicans, Romney
