With the Senate (at least on the left side of the aisle) poised to pass financial regulatory reform, allow me to introduce you to a hero-in-the-making in the form of Elizabeth Warren. If you haven’t yet met, Ms. Warren is the appointed chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel. In this role, she is charged with overseeing the TARP bailout [...]
Archive for April, 2010
Elizabeth Warren: New American Hero
Posted in Politics, tagged banking reform, CFPA, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Elizabeth Warren, financial reform on April 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Fabulous Films of the ’40′s: Reality? Escapism? Both?
Posted in Movies, tagged classic movies, film noir, hollywood, HUAC on April 18, 2010 | 4 Comments »
1940 U.S. Population: 132 million Average weekly U.S. movie attendance: 80 million Some of my all-time favorite classic movies were released in the 1940′s… Notorious with Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman (1946), Bette Davis at her dramatic best in Now, Voyager (1942), The Lost Weekend – Ray Milland’s four-day binge (1945), the iconic Casablanca (1943), [...]
Welcome to my (cyber) world…
Posted in Miscellaneous on April 3, 2010 | 8 Comments »
And to whatever extent you choose to stick around, thank you. I hope you’ll engage in the dialogue by posting your comments and sharing your brilliance. I avoided the blog bandwagon for a long time, at least in terms of writing my own. I felt that unless I was plugging a business or a cause, it was [...]
