Group Think, Duct Tape and Slam Dunks
Month: January 2011
How Madoff’s Surviving Son Handles Grief and Scandal
By Stephen Foley in New York Tuesday, 21 December 2010 THE INDEPENDENT UK The fiancée of Bernard Madoff’s surviving son has provided a glimpse of life in the shadow of history’s biggest fraud, revealing how Andrew Madoff has thrown himself into music and new business ventures as a whirlwind of recrimination continues to swirl around […]
MoreJohn Burns’ “Ministering Angels” and “Liberators”
In this week’s New Yorker, Peter Maass — who was in Iraq covering the war at the time — examines the iconic, manufactured toppling of the Saddam statue in Baghdad’s Firdos Square, an event the American media relentlessly exploited in April, 2003, to propagandize citizens into believing that Iraqis were gleeful over the U.S. invasion and […]
MoreBradley Manning is Accused of Trying Really, Really Hard to Do the Right Thing.
It’s hard to write about Bradley Manning. I’ve composed more than one lengthy, impassioned post about Manning, and deleted it; we’ve heard things about or from Manning that we weren’t supposed to hear, and we’ve heard lots of things about Manning that may or may not be the truth, and addressing those things publicly — […]
MoreShut Up Little Man ~ The Audio Misadventures of Peter and Raymon
The Shut Up Little Man recordings Features the real-life comical rants, hateful harangues, drunken soliloquies, and audible fistfights of Raymond and Peter – two booze-swilling homicidal roommates in a low-rent district of San Francisco.
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