In this week’s Observer a fun piece by Steve Kornacki on Rudy’s recent debacle: his idea of running for governor. When he sized Paterson up as a political non-entity he was right, says Kornacke, but too right. Soon Cuomo became the fave in a Democratic state leading now by over 50 points. Now you’d have … Read more
I’m a (dead) Soul Man In the accelerating race to the top of the boredom pop chart we have the NY Times review of “American Idiot”, a rock opera by the Berkeley Reperatory Theater. It’s based on the album by Green Day. The Times spends hundreds of words trying to describe the phenomenon of young … Read more
Today we heard that Ken Lewis is retiring from Bank of America. He’ll get $125 million in retirement and stock. When you get $45 billion in the bailout it really doesn’t seem so much. And it wasn’t easy. Paying $50 billion for Merrill Lynch’s toxic lunch, especially at Paulson and Bernanke’s Soup Nazi Kitchen is … Read more
Scenes of a great summer. Lucky to be an illustrator in these crazy times for starters. And lucky to stop being an illustrator for a few weeks and check completely out. Well not completely. I was still surgically connected to my sketchbook. So here are my scribbles and snaps from a sweet sailing aboard The … Read more
Max Baucus, (D-Aetna), released his plan, at last, yesterday. It is such a lousy health “reform” that it might just help revive the Public Option. This thing kills the Public Option and gives giant profits to the Medical Industrial Complex might actually help the debate. Democrats can see now that something so watered down and … Read more
