Tag Archives: news

Where trivia and gossip pass for news…

By reckon | Published: September 6, 2009

A culture that cannot distinguish between reality and illusion dies. And we are dying now. We will either wake from our state of induced childishness, one where trivia and gossip pass for news and information, one where our goal is not justice but an elusive and unattainable happiness, to confront the stark limitations before us, [...]

Posted in Anthropology, Asides, Feature, Inverted Commas, Language, Politics | Also tagged consciousness, media, Politics, psychology |

Poetry Brothel Seducing Many New Yorkers

By reckon | Published: November 10, 2008

With dimmed lights, lace, and masks, the Poetry Brothel is anything but a conventional poetry reading, and maybe that’s why it seducing so many New Yorkers. NY1′s Stephanie Simon filed the following report on a new kind of poetry party that is downright risqué. via NY1

Posted in Asides, Poetry | Also tagged Poetry |

Poems on the Credit Crunch

By reckon | Published: October 9, 2008

To celebrate National Poetry Day, BBC News website readers have been sending in their poems on the credit crunch. via BBC

Posted in Asides, Poetry | Also tagged economics |

Impacts of the Financial Crisis

By reckon | Published: September 19, 2008

Only a small fraction of funding by investment banks, mortgage companies, brokerages, equity funds, hedge funds, commodities futures speculators, etc., comes from actual investor capital. The rest—up to ninety-seven percent, in the case of commodities futures contracts—is credit self-created by the banks. Where did the banks get this credit? The answer is that they simply [...]

Posted in Asides, Business, Politics | Also tagged Business, economics |