American Madness

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Summer Days Gone By

(500) Days of Summer rests solidly on the strengths of its charismatic leads Joseph Gordon Levitt and Zooey Deschanel, who play Tom Hansen and Summer Finn, co-workers at a greeting card company who find, and then lose, romance. Written by Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber and directed by Marc Webb (known primarily for music videos, [...]

Nothing focuses management quite like ownership

Letter to HBS prof William Sahlman regarding this excellent paper:
“Management and the Financial Crisis (We Have Met the Enemy and He is Us”…)
This is a brilliant exposition on the management failures. I only take issue with the notion that the dot com crash had a smaller effect on the domestic economy, or that the dot [...]

The Boat That Rocked

*This review is based on the European release of this film which runs 2 hours and 5 minutes. The film has reportedly been re-edited for the American release following criticism of its length in the UK.
Don’t be fooled by the way Pirate Radio has been advertised in the US. Philip Seymour Hoffman’s character is not [...]

The Abortion Debate and the Health Care Bills

I am frankly sick of the pro abortion lobby intentionally distorting the position of most Americans on the issue of abortion. In today NY Times, Kate Michelman and Frances Kissling wrote that,
“House Democrats voted to expand the current ban on public financing for abortion and to effectively prohibit women who participate in the [...]

Solving New York State’s Fiscal Crisis

The Governor is going to propose once again reducing the expenses of education and cutting medicaid spending. It seems that the engine that ran the State, Wall Street, is no longer paying what it once did. Since we long ago got rid of manufacturing in New York, we now have nothing to replace [...]

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