Does the downturn spell the beginning of the end for suburbia? Some experts say yesterday's cul-de-sac is tomorrow's ghost town. The downturn has accomplished what a generation of designers and planners could not: it has turned back the tide of suburban sprawl. In the wake of the foreclosure crisis ...

Obviously, it won’t be possible to chronicle all of the fawning media coverage the various finance world moochers and looters received back when they were still viewed as conquering heroes. But this Vanity Fair piece about Walter Noel’s family is probably representative of the worst of i...

The collapse of the world beneath the weight of the looters should make me sad and yet I feel a sort of joy watching the collapse the destroyers have engineered.   Maybe I'm just tired, tired of the lack of purpose I feel, tired at the feeling that nothing means anything anymore.
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Listen up.  I do not want to read or hear the word "spew" any more.  It's ubiquitous in the way "parameter" was during the Watergate hearings, and as misused.  I am sick and tired of it.  "Spew" appears often in florid political screeds...

This is what they do. PC POLICE STATE CRAP. The left cannot debate the issues. They cannot account for their enormous failures. They refuse to acknowledge the devastation and waste of decades of welfare handouts and suppression of human will. They will not debate any of this as we free fall into com...

Afghan Faces, Predators, Reapers, Terrorist Stars, Roman Conquerors, Imperial Graveyards, and Other Oddities of the Truncated American Century By Tom Engelhardt Sometimes, it's the everyday things, the ones that fly below the radar, that matter. Here, according to Bloomberg News, is part of Secr...

Earthside Comments: We've just been robbed. Citigroup CEO Says In Charge of Day-to-Day Operations | Reuters Citigroup Inc executives spoke on a conference call on Friday and said "we completely remain in charge of the day-to-day operations of the company." Highlights: * Pandit, talking about nationa...

There is, of course news of the other sort. But the bad news is easy to find and usually much more widely discussed. Here instead is a round up of the positive news stories from 5 to 23 February 2009 from Iraq. I focus on this, not only to attempt to balance the scales in the tone department, but to...

Monday, February 23, 2009. Chaos and violence continue, the US military announces 5 deaths in Iraq since Friday (3 today), Iraq War veteran Kristoffer Walker says "no more" to the Iraq War, Iraq War veteran Suzanne Swift shares the stories of her harassment and command rape while serving in the...

Timothy Williams (New York Times) reports 23-year-old Nachman Jaleel Kadhim is a widow who also lost her twin sisters to the illegal war, one of her own five-month twins and now barely surived in a trailer park with "her remaining daughter." Williams notes: That makes her one of the lucky ones. The ...