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‘humans are Cheaper’
I have already cited Robert Greenwald’s 2005 documentary The High Cost of Low Price as a source for viewing the “new dark side” of manufacturing as a sign of the impact of the “Wal-Mart economy” on manufacturing in this brave new world of...
Contemporary Coriolanus
Given that I spend almost no time at the movies any more, I have to confess that I was drawn to reading reviews of Coriolanus, the directorial debut of Ralph Fiennes, who also plays the leading role. Much has been made of how Shakespeare’s conception...
Stockhausen Challenged By Description
I have been reading the University of California Press anthology of articles from Source, which I plan to review on my Examiner.com national site. In the first issue I found a transcription of a conversation in which one of the participants was Karlheinz...
Is History Really a ‘Tonic of Tragedy?’
I just finished reading Simon Schama’s attack on Downton Abbey. This apparently first appeared in The New Statesman and then migrated to Newsweek, from which it was picked up by The Daily Beast, which is where I read it. Schama has a way with words...
Confusing Amazon
Amazon.com has turned out to be a rather valuable resource when I am doing my writing for Examiner.com. When I am reviewing a recording, it is one of the easiest places for me to find its release date; and, since an image of the album cover is often...
How is the Economy Healing?
The BBC News Web site just put up a report whose lead sentence is optimistic, at least on the surface: The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) said its services index rose to 52.6 last month from 52 in November. A reading above 50 indicates expansion. Needless...
Apocalypse 2012?
It was informative to read Mark Lilla’s piece in the latest New York Review, “Republicans for Revolution,” just before the Iowa caucus-based primary. Lilla demonstrates that current Republican trends are far from the traditions of conservatism,...
Free Market Health Care
According to an Associate Press story filed by Joseph Pisani this past Saturday, Groupon (along with other daily deals sites) is moving into health care. In other words coupon-based marketing is now flourishing, at least on the Web, in areas such...
