Reporters are being laid off in waves. Pressure from Wall Street on print media is requiring change to century old business models. And police seem increasingly willing to use force when reporters are in the way. Here are seven reasons it’s getting harder to be a First Amendment warrior in the Age of the Internet. […]
Book Review: “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine” by Michael Lewis
April 4, 2012 by
Michael Lewis can tell a story like no other. In fact, even before I finished reading his “The Big Short,” I wanted to work the book into every conversation I had. The story was that interesting and compelling. Anyone who can take the financial crisis of the last few years, find a story in it that centers around subprime mortgages and shorting the market (if you understand what that means and how to do it, you’re more than a step ahead of me and about anyone else I’ve mentioned it to over the last couple weeks), and then make it interesting to the lay reader deserves to be read. [cont…]
Occupy Wall Street v. Steve Jobs
October 7, 2011 by
Every time one of those Occupy Wall Street (and their lesser known cousins, like Occupy Salt Lake) tweet their status on their iPhone, I am struck by the irony. Steve Jobs was a capitalist, and were it not for Wall Street, there might not have been a Steve Jobs or that iPhone. It was the access […]
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