Hey, Kids! 2005-06

Obomba Cyber Graffiti I was pretty hepped up to teach a graffiti class starting this Friday, but my enthusiasm took a pretty severe blow when the Art League cancelled it for lack of students. And this after I’d thrown myself into the artform for the past couple of weeks with the determination of a paratrooper. [...]

There are protests all over the country against Wall Street and bankers, on top of which there’s a controversy about Bank of America slapping its debit card customers with a five dollar a month fee. This morning’s Wall Street Journal ran an editorial that basically said, oh, poor banks, how else are they supposed to [...]

After much searching, I found an article which explained the Hellerstein (the judge of all things 9/11) ruling which caused the family of Mark Bavis to settle their wrongful death suit against United Airlines and its security subcontractor. Simply put, the ruling said blame the screeners. All the defendants needed to maintain was that their [...]

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Honestly, I have only a perfunctory knowledge of finance. My obsession with the current financial situations stems with what I witnessed with the Enron investigation. Massive fraud had taken down the seventh largest American corporation. Half of the entire Bush administration had ties to Enron, and board member Wendy Gramm was married to the guy [...]