Banks Seek Sub-Prime Bailout: Privatize Profits, Socialize Costs

It was only a matter of time. John Cole leads us in the all American corporate cheer: “Privatize the profits, socialize the costs.” It’s what this country is all about:
The banking industry, struggling to contain the fallout from the mortgage debacle, is urgently shopping proposals to Congress and the Bush administration [...]

Tyra Banks to Hillary Clinton: Model through It!

Updated FYI: BlogHer asked me to write a political update and I chose to do this instead. I sent it to BlogHer but they never received it.

Photo courtesy of AP Photo/Warner Bros.,Jason KempinI know its crazy, but BlogHer political editor Morra Aarons-Mele asked me to submit a “dispatch” about the Nevada caucuses; caucuses [...]