by Leah McGrath Goodman | Jul 18, 2011 | Uncategorized
. So there’s this small issue of the world being debt-ridden and nobody hiring and the delicate financial machinery of our country breaking down in a way that can only be called utterly embarrassing. This is not altogether bad news. For those who have long been...
by Leah McGrath Goodman | Jul 16, 2011 | Uncategorized
This week we discovered almost all the cash that was inside the U.S. is now outside the U.S. But guess what we still have in spades? Self-regard. In fact, a recent story in the New Yorker cited young Americans as having some of the lowest maths and English scores in...
by Leah McGrath Goodman | Jul 15, 2011 | Uncategorized
There is a time to wear a headband and a time not to wear a headband. Some would say it is best not to wear a headband outside kindergarten. But if you’re in Istanbul to consider offering the full thrust of free world legitimacy to the Libyan rebels, why...
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...
