Stein to Suffrage
"How many Wall Streeters have been indicted? None. Well, you will say, what about the psycho Madoff? True, he's a criminal. But he had nothing to do with the housing collapse. Compared with Goldman Sachs, he was a pickpocket. And Goldman Sachs is basically running the whole world. Is Obama doing anything about them besides empty words. No." More anti-Semitism? Probably not. Those words are by Ben Stein, who's as Jewish as Barbara Streisand, and he even hangs out in Jewish strongholds (Hollywood and Manhattan). These words of his are no doubt exaggerated a little, but not much. Scarcely a week goes by that the folks at Zero Hedge don't point out some startling things about GS's incredible power and reach. . . . If you're not reading Zero Hedge, I don't know why and I can't blame you. Though often humorous, its prose gets a C-minus grade, at best. It's a mix of subway graffiti and finance-speak. Neither make for easy reading, but still: it's one of the few sites with insiders throwing darts at insiders. If it was able to afford a first-rate editor that could style for the engaged-but-non-specialist reader, the site would be dynamite. Right now, it's just very, very good. . . . I mentioned last week that my son was attending Michigan's Youth in Government program. He left Wednesday and got back early Sunday afternoon. The organizers kept the hundreds of youth delegates from around the state very busy. So busy, in fact, that none of them had time to go to church on Palm Sunday (or even the Saturday evening before). Whatta good sign for our future. . . . Top 400 universities in the world. Its relentless leftism frustrates me, but I'm still heartened to see my alma mater (Michigan) get ranked in the Top 20 worldwide. . . .
