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he prefers a clear, active, intense confusion to any ‘wise passiveness,” to any calm and  clouded two-sidedness–whenever he sees that there is something to be said for both sides, he speaks up for the underdog, hard, so that his work is a Permanent Revolution of an anarchist emotional kind, and he himself spins willingly on…

Straggling Monad’s Ruined Arch By: Domenic Maltempi 4-6-10 Our king walked on terrible poetry Only the worse Flawless calligraphy! Marvel at the dates and special purposes! Recede in its caramelized strokes It’s settling ruby pulp Finest subjects of course! Nine gated elegies The big wigs muted trumpery Every PR penny worth it Succor for bereaving…

“What is more precise than precision? Illusion!. Marianne Moore… How true! I just read this in Randall Jarrell’s excellent and oh so moving ‘Poetry and The Age’ Odd…. I don’t think I will be able to forget the latter quote. It also summoned to mind, an often remembered piece of an Ezra Pound book (forget…

I once saw a documentary on an aging Yiddish Community in Southern California. I saw it for an anthropology class in College. The film itself was half memorable, a fairly interesting account of a moribund community, chock full of entertaining, sometimes engrossing stories from elderly Yiddish speaking people. Well, one quote that has imprinted itself in that…

Yes, it’s a crude topic. It came to me on a drive to the local blockbuster…. Why not assign a sex act to each Major League Baseball team. This would assuredly be a topic that would create quite an umbrage storm, as much as it would delight certain fans (casual or otherwise,) of the old…

“When predators have exhausted the economy, they turn on each other. The result is financial cannibalism. After all, who else is it possible to get money from in today’s negative equity environment? “If the media are missing anything, it’s that the game is over. The financial institutions are taking their money and running. They know…

The financial sector has imposed huge externalities on the rest of society. America’s financial industry polluted the world with toxic mortgages, and, in line with the well established “polluter pays” principle, taxes should be imposed on it. Besides, well-designed taxes on the financial sector might help alleviate problems caused by excessive leverage and banks that…

The trick to more restful sleep, may indeed involve a few teaspoons of peanut butter an hour before bed time. I felt the urge to repost an article written by Tariq Ali, well, a portion of a recent article I read of his off Counterpunch web site. The context involves the protesting of certain Islamic women in France, one…

EKATER TO YELSTIN’s SPLEENY   A lot has been written about the humiliation Russia experienced when it ceased to be a superpower; a lot has also been written about the rapid immiseration of a vast segment of the post-Soviet population. But these things were affected by the daily experience of fear. It was certainly bad…

As currently structured, Wall Street investment banks have no incentive to bring viable companies to market.  Wall Street makes the same huge fees for putting lipstick on a pig and dumping it on the public as they do for launching solid companies with real job growth potential. Over the past decade, trillions of dollars of…