On the Turning Away From Conventional Media
- an interview with the Blog Reader's Jonah Keegan
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We chanced upon this interesting ‘discourse’ and thought it illustrates the “sanctimonious fatigue” from the anti-hicks with what they call “reverse snobbery”, aka culture war.
Commenter: “Really? Did you support Obama over Clinton and Edwards because you liked where Obama wants to take us all next. or because you liked where he comes from?”
A British academic concludes from her study that men with sexist views ‘earn more’ than their modern-thinking brothers. It could be because “more traditionally-minded men are interested in power, both in terms of access to resources - money in this case - and also in terms of a woman who is submissive.”
A shot across the brow for self-proclaimed progressive men?
Stop the press: NYSE suspends trading in Lehman Brothers shares
NEW YORK, Sept 17 (Reuters) - The New York Stock Exchange’s regulatory arm said on Wednesday that trading in shares of Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc has been suspended, effective immediately.
The exchange said that a listing was no longer considered suitable after the investment bank filed for bankruptcy on Monday.
If anything, the glee of a sewing circle over the paroxysms underway in the financial market presents a splendid bit of irony in an otherwise tumultuous week.
On the heels of de facto nationalization of Fannie and Freddie, venerable Lehman Brothers fell on its sword, dying an ignominious death, followed by an eleventh-hour rescue of AIG that “brings on bloodbath”, as investors fear more shoes may drop.
Continued at the other blog.