Category Archives: unemployment

Where’s the sanity, dude?

Posted on November 2, 2010 by oddmanout215

Memo to Stewart: There’s no point to rallying about nothing. Jon Stewart should stick to mild satire. His interviews can be politely irreverent, and he does an amusing job of using news clips to show that the media is, by … Continue reading →

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Obama on the boob tube

Posted on October 28, 2010 by oddmanout215

2010 is like 1933, but without the good songs “Conspirators have a logic and a daring beyond our reach. All conspiracies are the same taut story of men who find coherence in some criminal act. Or maybe not.” — Don … Continue reading →

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(Nearly) fatal distraction

Posted on October 25, 2010 by oddmanout215

How can a poor man stand such teams and live? “These days people want beer with their circuses, not bread.” – A contemporary South Philly descendant of the ancient Roman satirist Juvenal. The beer flowed Wednesday night but the circus, … Continue reading →

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Take away my rights, not my toys

Posted on October 4, 2010 by oddmanout215

Why FDR’s words wouldn’t resonate today “No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order.” In 1934, FDR’s … Continue reading →

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A new casino in this economy? Are you crazy?

Posted on September 29, 2010 by oddmanout215

The utilitarian gambling hall erected on North Delaware Avenue at the border of Fishtown and Northern Liberties puts 1,600 slot machines and 40 card tables within easy reach of neighborhoods across the city, many of them low-income. With the illusive … Continue reading →

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Headless bodies and hapless Democrats

Posted on September 7, 2010 by oddmanout215

Think GOP’s morons can’t win midterms? Think again Keith Olbermann knows Republican candidates are funny. He airs clips of their boneheaded declarations so that we who lean left can laugh, in an incredulous way, at how grotesque the right wing … Continue reading →

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Ten signs you’ve slipped into the underclass

Posted on August 30, 2010 by oddmanout215

Here’s how to tell you’ve hit bottom Make a list that traces your downward mobility. This is the opposite of what you’d do if you were reading “Six signs that you’ve made it to the middle class,” a recent article … Continue reading →

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Newsflash: Iraq not ready for U.S. pullout

Posted on August 20, 2010 by oddmanout215

The war has cost close to $1 trillion so far. Guess who’s paying for it? Earlier this week more than 60 people were killed in a suicide bombing in Baghdad as they stood in a long line waiting to apply … Continue reading →

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Dowd for White House press secretary? A good fit

Posted on August 16, 2010 by oddmanout215

D.C. gossip queen has low tolerance for Democratic ‘lefties’ New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd is a caricaturist who also specializes in insider gossip, semi-clever puns and simplistic assessments of the national mood. She would make an ideal replacement for … Continue reading →

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‘Canadian health care?’ We should be so lucky

Posted on August 13, 2010 by oddmanout215

Robert Gibbs is the new poster boy for Dem cowardice Like many other Democrats, I puzzled for a few days over Robert Gibbs’s scornful remarks about the “professional left.” Is President Obama’s press secretary just another beefy bureaucrat who lost … Continue reading →

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