Lifeboat Ethics For Compassionate Conservatives?

There are no Compassionate Conservatives in lifeboats… or anywhere else. Confronted with the ethics of other in a lifeboat of their own making, five “leaders” tell it like it is. . . In Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1944 film, Lifeboat, a few British and U.S. civilians, a German combatant, and a couple merchant marines are stuck in a lifeboat* together after their ship …

Help Our Lovable Banksters

“It’s not that you win or lose, but how you play the game.” — Milburn Drysdale “Honesty and integrity are the very cornerstones of the great institution of banking.  And they are strengthened by the mortar of fair and democratic competition.” — Jane Hathaway “That is the courageous attitude that has kept the doors of our bank open through economic …

Blame It On Black Monday

The Obama folks once again understate the obvious. Black Monday rolls into town today with a distinctively oily hue and cry, and that fulminating hoard of rats you see running along the bulwark are not rushing out to see the latest Pirates of the Caribbean folderal, but are enjoying a bout of panic brought on by another classic Film Noir: …