by Leah McGrath Goodman | Jul 14, 2011 | Uncategorized
Hold the phone, we run of cash when? In two and a half weeks? Bah, fie and tut-tut. So that’s what’s behind this whole debt-ceiling/deficit talk getting in the way of my “Mad Men” re-runs. But maybe there’s a silver lining. One humble...
by Leah McGrath Goodman | Jul 13, 2011 | Uncategorized
I remember when I first read about Rupert Murdoch as a kid, how he barnstormed the British media in the 1960s and published anything that might put the nation’s panties in a bunch: its journalistic establishment, its finance establishment, its trade union...
by Leah McGrath Goodman | Jul 12, 2011 | Uncategorized
It took longer than usual to take up the pen today. Probably because it was imperative to check out the “Every Single Outfit Catherine Wore on the Royal Tour” feature in the Huffington Post. Having done that, I now turn to more important matters. Like this...
by Leah McGrath Goodman | Jul 10, 2011 | Uncategorized
As most writers, I am a tiny bit obsessed with music. Apropos of nothing, more than 14 million Americans are now out of work (according to the latest blizzard of stunningly disappointing U.S. Labor Department data released Friday). In the past, we’ve seen our...
by Leah McGrath Goodman | Jul 9, 2011 | Uncategorized
The whole Dominique Strauss-Kahn affair looks like it’s coming to a painful close (with even the close itself looking painful in some such terms as, when will it close?). As we look askance, I am trying to ask myself…what have we learned? Not much. Except...
