A few weeks ago Cynthia and I had the chance to visit Rome. Here are some pages from the sketchbook.
On the train from Leonardo daVinci Airport at about 7 AM a lady shows it’s never too early in the day to moisturize. Her husband read the paper.
Steve
Gorilla My Dreams
For David Denby’s review in this week’s New Yorker. The Rise of the Planet of the Apes, where the chimps go ape over James Franco’s experimental work on Alzheimers and wind up trashing San Francisco like Tea Partiers in DC. Freida Pinto needs a minute to process this.
SHOW ME YOUR EVIDENCE!!!!!
The SEC is supposed to be the cops of Wall St. Since the huge Meltdown of 2008 there have been no successful prosecutions of the CEOs who got us to where we are. And now we see what has happened to the evidence. According to Matt Taibbi in the current Rolling Stone, the SEC has … Read more
THE ORACLE OF OMAHA
The other day billionaire Warren Buffett put the screws to the GOP orthodoxy and said, plainly, in the NY Times, that he and his fellow billionaires should, by rights, share in the sacrifice especially in a time of trouble. He reported knowing not one colleague not investing because of higher taxes. In other words, the … Read more
HITTING THE DEBT CEILING
The Debt Ceiling Crisis of the last week was a political nuke that spread its fallout everywhere. The US government was held hostage by radical crazies on the Right, seizing on a procedural device to affect the government’s self-destruction. A unique event in American history and one Obama was spiritually and tactically unprepared for. It … Read more
