Category Archives: unemployment

The NYT’s ‘no shit’ style of news analysis

Posted on February 24, 2011 by oddmanout215

There are deeply divided opinions and shifting allegiances over whether unions are helping or hurting people who have been caught in the recent economic squeeze. And workers themselves, being pitted against one another, are finding it hard to feel sympathy … Continue reading →

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Why Madison, Wis., looks like Egypt-land

Posted on February 21, 2011 by oddmanout215

Credit where it’s due: Not all mainstream reporters are treating what’s happening in Wisconsin as a budget-related spat over cuts in benefits. In today’s Philadelphia Daily News, Will Bunch considers the global context of the story and ponders the likelihood … Continue reading →

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Wis. workers try to slip pharoah’s yoke

Posted on February 21, 2011 by oddmanout215

I dig a ditch, I shape a stone/Another battlement for his throne/Another day on earth is flown/We’re all working for the pharaoh. — Richard Thompson, “Pharoah” The nicest thing you can say about the mainstream media’s skimpy coverage of the … Continue reading →

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Christie & Obama: We do big, stupid things

Posted on February 17, 2011 by oddmanout215

… Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, so I’ll take it that way. — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie reacting to President Barack Obama’s use of the phrase “big things” Who’s more contemptible, Christie or Obama? The former is … Continue reading →

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Working at the Inky/DN will be a hard habit to break

Posted on January 30, 2011 by oddmanout215

Tighten your fingers around a teaspoon, feel its metal pulse, its mistrustful warning. How it hurts to refuse a spoon, to say no to a door, to deny everything that habit has licked to a suitable smoothness. — Julio Cortazar, … Continue reading →

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The ‘decoupling’ of Americans from good jobs

Posted on January 27, 2011 by oddmanout215

… The President’s failure to address the decoupling of American corporate profits from American jobs, and explain specifically what he’ll do to get jobs back, not only risks making his grand plans for reviving the nation’s “competitiveness” seem somewhat beside … Continue reading →

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The Great Oz explains the state of the union

Posted on January 26, 2011 by oddmanout215

Practicing civility means never having to say you’re sorry. It mostly involves learning to speak in a civil manner, never using words that might cause anger or tears or indigestion. This takes time and effort and — the hard-to-learn part … Continue reading →

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Obama vs. the desert of the real

Posted on January 13, 2011 by oddmanout215

We may not be able to stop all evil in the world, but I know that how we treat one another is entirely up to us. I believe that for all our imperfections, we are full of decency and goodness, … Continue reading →

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Fast Eddie’s casino freakout on 60 Minutes

Posted on January 10, 2011 by oddmanout215

I’m Fast Eddie Rendell, and I’m smarter than the rest of you guys, always have been. It took me years to make you understand that casino gambling is the solution to shuttered factories and tens of thousands of lost jobs. … Continue reading →

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New Year’s in the twilight zone

Posted on January 5, 2011 by oddmanout215

Republicans are telling Americans a Big Lie, and Obama and the Democrats are letting them. The Big Lie is our economic problems are due to a government that’s too large, and therefore the solution is to shrink it. The truth … Continue reading →

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