Posted on February 23, 2009 by thewayofthings
AWAITING DESTRUCTION–Old Pacific Electric cars are piled up like toys at junkyard on Terminal Island, California, awaiting dismantling and destruction. -image from The Los Angeles Times - March 19, 1956
It used to be said that: “What’s good for GM is good for the country.”
Between 1926 and 1950, General Motors (together with Firestone Tire, Standard Oil, Phillips Petroleum, the Mack Truck Company, [...]
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Posted on February 20, 2009 by thewayofthings
Satire is supposed to be messy. It’s supposed to be biting and even nasty at times.
It can be scattershot and long-winded (as in this SNL skit). It can also provide a wonky dose of reality and insight into our smug, media massaged world of instant analysis and expert telepundits. By doing so, it can occasionally reveal some kernel of [...]
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Posted on February 18, 2009 by thewayofthings
Even Art Carney knows our economy’s gone subterranean.
“We don’t do optimism, We don’t do pessimism. We do realism at the Bank of
Canada. – We don’t do spin.”
Wow! Nice, short, bold, scalpel-like declarations from a powerful guy who clearly feels he has his finger on the pulse of Canada’s economic future. (Ahem, be careful with that scalpel sir.)
These emphatic [...]
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