Thursday, April 28, 2016

Ecuador in the 1980s

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“Blood Lake, a Philomena Buscarsela Mystery,” by Kenneth Wishnia, 2014 Genre fiction has broken out of its cage so many times that it...
Wednesday, April 20, 2016

The “God Mode”

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“The New New Thing – A Silicon Valley Story,” by Michael Lewis, 2000 This is the story of former Texan Jim Clark, an eccentric ADD ‘an...
Saturday, April 16, 2016

Foreclose on the Banks

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"99 Homes,” a film by Ramin Bahrani, 2015 This is a companion to the film, “ The Big Short ” which did not dwell on the foreclosur...
Sunday, April 10, 2016

Innovate This!

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“Listen Liberal – Or Whatever Happened to the Party of the People?” by Thomas Frank, 2016 The timing is perfect.   In the shade of his...
Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Hidden HIstory of the Italian Left

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"The Unseen,” by Nanni Belestrini – foreword by A. Negri, 1987 The unseen, the hidden half, the invisible people of Italy act.   A...
Tuesday, March 29, 2016

The Cosmic Tapestry Instead

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"The Big Bang Never Happened,” by Eric J Lerner, 1992 Once a theory becomes the title of a long-running comedy TV show and also a ...
Friday, March 25, 2016

Jury of the Spotless Minds

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THREE DAYS in the JURY POOL March 14, Monday.   First day of this jury pool.   100 people in jury waiting room in basement of courtho...
Saturday, March 19, 2016

The Old & New Conquistadors

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“The Open Veins of Latin America – Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent,’ by Eduardo Galeano, 1973-1979.  Galeano makes the sup...