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Lose Your House, Collect $300
How much will the banks have to pay for the foreclosure scandal? What will people whose homes were stolen — there is no other word — receive? Now we know the details...and they're not pretty.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
04-15-2013 |
Housing & Development
Presidential Tokenism, Part 2
Obama fooled progressives into thinking that an African-American president would be inherently liberal. Now supporters of Hillary Rodham Clinton are trying to convince them that a woman president would guarantee hope and change. This time, however, there's a record to look at.
Roger Ebert's Pernicious Influence on American Culturenew
Yes, Virginia, it is possible to draw an intelligent obituary cartoon. But is it possible for it to be printed in a newspaper?
Tags: Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert RIPnew
As usual when a celebrity dies, the passing of Roger Ebert spawned a passel of cheesy obituary cartoons by editorial cartoonists who depict the departed at the pearly gates, enjoying the afterlife. I hate the format and I usually only do them to mock the form or take a really contrarian position on the subject. This time, I've decided to show what the form could be: an opportunity for assessing a life, and its social and political meaning in our culture. Yes, Virginia, it is possible to draw an intelligent obituary cartoon. But is it possible for it to be printed in a newspaper?
At SXSW 2013, the Mayors of Brokesville
SXSW is a metaphor for what's going on in the American economy: everyone wants to sell, no one wants to buy.
The American Way of Deathnew
Whether it’s OK to use killer drones to blow people up depends on their citizenship and geographic proximity to the Good Old USA.
Love Reapernew
Will the next generation of killer drones have extra features to win over hearts and minds in the war on terror?
Freedom Marches Forwardnew
Gay marriage seems to be a historical inevitability. Let the self-congratulatory gladhanding begin! Who cares if we can’t make real progress on truly important issues?
LGBT: A RIght-Wing Movement
After Stonewall, gays fought for liberation of sexuality and free expression. Now they're fighting to assimilate into monogamism and joining the armies of empire. Gays and straights have lost as a result.
Ten Years Into the Iraq War: Where Are They Now?new
The villains who lied the American people into invading Iraq are prospering. The Iraqis they killed, not so much.
Tags: George W. Bush
The Quagmire Pattern
Ten Years into the Iraq War, the U.S. Repeats in Syria.
Wounded Drone Warriorsnew
Won't you reach out and help our brave wounded warriors as they come home from Iraq and Afghanistan?
With a Recovery Like Thisnew
The bottom 99% of wage earners in the United States lost 0.4% of their income between 2009 and 2011. The top 1% gained 11.2%. So the one percent grabbed 121% of the income gains from the so-called recovery. Can America afford much more recovery like this?
Cash In
Comparing herself to Betty "The Feminine Mystique" Friedan, Sheryl Sandberg wants her book to inspire "Lean In Circles" where women would meet to plot how to climb the corporate ladder and achieve gender parity in the boardroom. At their creepy gatherings, women will learn how to act more boldly, aggressively - more like men. Her idea of how men act, anyway.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
03-14-2013 |
The War on Women
Not That Awesome to Begin Withnew
Burger King at the airport is like Burger King minus the full menu. TCBY express is like TCBY but less so. Similarly, the United States under austerity is an institution that never offered many services in the first place and is now even worse.
