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By Clarence Page Like a sequel to a bad horror movie, the “great vampire squid” is back. That was gonzo author Matt Taibbi’s description in a mid-2009 Rolling Stone article about Goldman Sachs, the financial giant that played a central role in the 2008 financial meltdown. The world’s most powerful investment bank, he wrote, was [...]
By Clarence Page A class-action suit filed by two black men claims”The Bachelor”turned them away because they were not white. I think they should feel relieved. Having the right to embarrass yourself on national television doesn’t mean you actually should do it. Nevertheless, there is no shortage of people seeking fame by way of the [...]
By Eugene Robinson It’s all over but the shouting — or, in this case, the polite applause: Mitt Romney is going to be the Republican presidential nominee. But which Mitt Romney? Will it be Mitt One or Mitt Two? This is not an inconsequential question. Mitt One is a fiscally conservative, socially moderate, Wall Street-style [...]
By Clarence Page Americans praise civility, but we constantly reward rudeness. That annoying fact of life helps explain why the blessings that Rush Limbaugh brought to the Republican base recently turned into a curse. The switch happened abruptly as the conservative radio icon came under attack from all sides for calling a female law student [...]
By Jesse Jackson This Sunday, nearly 40 million people are likely to tune in to see who captures an Oscar at the annual Academy Awards ceremonies. Winning the award can add millions to a film’s box office and supercharge the career of an actor, director, screenwriter or editor. According to the Academy’s 2009-10 fiscal year [...]
By Clarence Page Two years after a magnitude-7.0 earthquake struck Haiti killing hundreds of thousands, more than a half-million Haitians are still sleeping under tarps, often in camps without enough water or toilets. As another hurricane season approaches, many people are asking: What happened to the generous donations that Americans gave? Congress should make it [...]
By Eugene Robinson Charleston, S.C. — You know-it-alls who think unemployment is the most urgent crisis facing the nation are wrong, I’ve learned from watching a zillion Republican campaign ads on television this week. All you deficit hawks, rise-of-China worrywarts and alarmed observers of the Iranian nuclear program are wrong, too, and should stop bothering [...]
By Clarence Page …The controversy began when the first lady and Jill Biden, wife of the vice president, were booed and jeered — loudly enough for television microphones to pick up — at last Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup finale at the Homestead-Miami Speedway in Florida. Many — including me — were predictably outraged, especially since [...]
By Eugene Robinson Occupy Wall Street and its kindred protests around the country are inept, incoherent and hopelessly quixotic. God, I love ’em. I love every little thing about these gloriously amateurish sit-ins. I love that they are spontaneous, leaderless and open-ended. I love that the protesters refuse to issue specific demands beyond a forceful [...]
By Leonard Pitts I am pleased to report the sighting of an artifact so rarely seen among Democrats that it has become the stuff of legend and conjecture, like Bigfoot or the Loch Ness monster. It is called a spine. Said spine was briefly glimpsed a little over a week ago at a “jobs summit” [...]
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