Disqus - Latest Comments for mindonly

Re: Blackstone Made Money on Credit-Default Swaps With This One Weird Trick

mindonly — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 23:21:25 -0000

Clever???? Hardly. I'm surprised the CDS issuers can't sue.

Re: Margaret Simons and the Australian

mindonly — Fri, 25 May 2012 00:05:33 -0000

There's no conflict of interest. This is a beat-up - the Fourth Estate is power drunk. Like Rebecca Brooks and her thugs who got tripped up by unrelated events. Robber barons, trade unions, politicians and the media - the power pendulum in perpetual motion.

Re: Margaret Simons and the Australian

mindonly — Thu, 24 May 2012 23:44:13 -0000

Robert's criticism is, on the contrary, entirely valid. It's not time to "move on", but The Oz needs to answer to monopolising the bully pulpit in this way. We saw this behaviour with Rebecca Brooks and her gang of thugs. The power pendulum has swung way too far into the court of the Fourth Estate.

Re: The Real Mahatma Gandhi - Magazine - The Atlantic

mindonly — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 11:12:45 -0000

This is a far more considered (sans blinkers) view:
http://www.newyorker.com/ar...

Re: The Tragedy of Sarah Palin - Magazine - The Atlantic

mindonly — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 03:11:50 -0000

We're supposed to ignore all her media appearances, her pidgin English, her inability to think linearly or to communicate in full sentences? Her poisonous partisanship (and, according to your spin, her breathtaking abandonment of her previous principles)? Her ignorance of the Bible? Of America? The world? Because she fixed one or two problems while truly messing up the rest? For that, you think she'd have done a better job?

Really? *Senior* editor? Of The Atlantic?