Too big for fraud

Matt Taibbi: Courts Helping Banks Screw Over Homeowners - Rolling Stone

"When you meet people who are losing their homes in this foreclosure crisis, they almost all have the same look of deep shame and anguish. Nowhere else on the planet is it such a crime to be down on your luck, even if you were put there by some of the world's richest banks, which continue to rake in record profits purely because they got a big fat handout from the government. That's why one banker CEO after another keeps going on TV to explain that despite their own deceptive loans and fraudulent paperwork, the real problem is these deadbeat homeowners who won't pay their fucking bills. And that's why most people in this country are so ready to buy that explanation. Because in America, it's far more shameful to owe money than it is to steal it."

The only ones who can afford to smile

Winning the Class War - The New York Times

A tale of tempered individualism

On Thanksgiving, Remembering Our Common Bonds - Washington Post

Making the invisible visible: the "self-made" myth

The Myth of the Self-Made American: Why Progressives Get No Respect - Campaign for Anerica's Future

Americans' unrealistic economic hopes show conservatives' mastery of propaganda

Self-Made American Myth #2: Who Makes $250K? - Campaign For America's Future

That was another country

There Will Be Blood - The New York Times

My God! That explains everything!

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Building a bridge to the 19th century

Who Will Stand Up to the Superrich? - The New York Times

Warren Buffett: Thanks, Uncle Sam

Pretty Good for Government Work - The New York Times

What Would Hegel Do?

Hegel on Wall Street - The New York Times

Is a dream a lie if it don't come true?

This piece has a lot to say, I think, about the fundamental disconnect between our humanity and what the System too often demands of us.

The Promise - Joe Blogs

Obama has a huge opening — should he take it

Barack Obama, Phone Home - The New York Time

Speaking of who's wrong...

Government Motors No More - The Economist

The problem is that democracy requires an informed electorate

Americans Against Themselves - The New York Review of Books

In their determination to punish the undeserving, voters are punishing themselves

Mugged by the Moralizers - The New York Times