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...McCain thinks that, merely because Governor Palin is a woman, I will support their ticket, he must think all women are stupid and uninformed. I was very offended by her derogatory remarks about Senator Obama's community work in Chicago. Many people and churches devote a lot of time and energy, do a lot of good work, and make changes for the betterment of their communities and for those less fortunate than Governor Palin. Her snark and cynicism proves that the GOP's talk of values is a meaningless farce. Extremist and opportunist, her beliefs are out of step with...
...Shanghai hopes to throw a lavish party to end all parties: the World Expo. World fairs have lost their luster since the wondrous days of London's Crystal Palace, Chicago and New York City. Who even remembers where and when the last Expo was held? (It was in 2005, in Aichi, Japan - thanks, Google.) But Shanghai is determined to revitalize the Expo. While Beijing threw an efficient if, ultimately, rather empty Olympics - because of visa restrictions that kept out many tourists along with potential demonstrators - you can bet that Shanghai will give a warmer welcome to the world. After...
Disillusioned by the administration's corruption, Paulson joined Goldman's Chicago office in 1974. His rise in the investment bank was meteoric (he made vice president within four years), and in 1998 he became co-CEO alongside current New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine. Paulson presided over the firm's immensely profitable IPO in 1999 - an offering to which he had long objected - and reaped the dividends immediately. Overnight, his holdings in Goldman rocketed from $95 million to $315 million. Though his ascent to Treasury Secretary in 2006 was by all accounts a promotion, it was nonetheless a sharp blow...
...deeper concern among the handwringers is that Obama isn't really tough enough for the job, even if he did emerge from the rough-and-tumble of Chicago politics, even if he did outfox the Clinton machine, even if he is the first black man to win a party nomination. They worry that he's trying to run out the clock, as if the disasters caused by eight years of supply-side economics and neoconservative geopolitics were so obvious that he could simply coast to victory on a massive get-out-the-vote operation and the collective wisdom...
...also Girl Talk’s most ironic album so far—packed to the gills with the paradoxical pairings we’ve come to expect and doubling “Night Ripper’s” dose of kitschy songs from artists like Chicago and Hot Chocolate. Gillis’s inclusion of more non-hip-hop songs can become almost nostalgic, as when he gleefully sprinkles in 90s indulgences like The Cranberries and Sinead O’Connor over more pop and lockable beats. The continued success of Girl Talk’s boundless...