President Obama Lectures Wall Street. My Lecture on Symbolic Expression.
President Obama’s statements at a press conference yesterday lecturing Wall Street does not help the economic crisis. By chastising bank executives for their billions of dollars in bonuses they paid themselves only months after the federal bailout, however, Obama points out to America how out of touch Wall Street is with the rest of the [...]
Jim Cramer’s MAD MONEY: A Defense.
Jim Cramer, the host of the stock trading television show Mad Money on CNBC, has received a lot of unfair attacks during this economic crisis. I first started watching Mad Money a couple of years ago as a guilty pleasure. With Cramer’s myriad sound effects, turbo charged segments—like the famous “Lightning Round” in which callers [...]
Scam Lotteries. I’m Rich! I’m Rich! I’m Stinking Filthy Rich!
This morning I won 2,500,000 pounds sterling from the United Kingdom National Lottery! Five times! I have five separate reference numbers so that I can quickly claim each of my winnings in lump sums!
But wait. Last week I won 1,750,000 US Dollars from the Ugandan Scholastic Lottery. THREE times! And I have three separate reference [...]
Economy Tanking: Ominous Signs Spell Need For Hope.
The Economy is Tanking.
The economy is tanking. The signs are clear that our financial system, our manufacturing, our gross domestic product, and our consumer spending is on life support. Each time it seems that things cannot get worse, things get worse. Wall Street journalists have been using the phrase, “It’s always darkest before the dawn” [...]
Miracle on the Hudson River. Airline Incidents as American Symbols.
The Miracle on the Hudson is a symbol of hope at the end of eight years of hopelessness. The Bush administration began with the horrendous tragedy of 9/11, when terrorists flew two jet airliners into each tower of the World Trade Center, killing thousands of innocent people. It ended when pilot Chelsey Sullenberger landed [...]
ICE STORM IN CONNECTICUT: Today and 1973.
We are experiencing an ice storm today. Needing to get some academic work done at home, I found myself repeating a pseudo-prayer in my head last night: “I hope it turns to rain so my son has school.” The weather nerd that I am, I looked at the local radar on my computer around midnight. [...]
The Most Famous Books I Never Read: the Ultimate Academic Game of Chicken.
In David Lodge’s brilliant and hilarious novel, Small World, a satire of the critical and theoretical mill in English
departments around the world in the 1970s, the English professors at one of the colleges in the narrative play a weekly, ultimate game of academic chicken. They go around the table, and each person has to confess [...]
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