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• July 14, 2009
  Goldman Sachs takes even more of Americans' money
  By Jeff Inglis

  Today's New York Times includes a short story (prominently featured online at 9 am) trumpeting the "big profit" Goldman Sachs is reporting. The NYT notes that some analysts may see this as a sign of a recovering economy.

  But read in the context of Matt Taibbi's recent Rolling Stone expose of the decades of profiteering at Goldman Sachs, in which the company has taken money from all Americans over the course of the last five or six economic crashes, it looks more like GS has just taken us for yet another ride, thanks to its friends throughout the financial industry, government, and "independent" financial regulatory organizations.

  

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• July 10, 2009
  Today's dose of feminist theory
  By Jeff Inglis

  Portland Phoenix staff writer Deirdre Fulton has a post up today commenting on a piece of feminist-theory criticism that is worth checking out. She addresses common tropes of feminist theory, as well as practical implications, such as President Obama's new White Hosue Council on Women and Girls.

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• June 29, 2009
  The Pope believes in science? Not so fast
  By Jeff Inglis

  Stop the presses/electrons/bits/telepathic waves!

  Pope Benedict XVI has declared that scientific tests actually prove something! This from a man who disputes the scientific benefits of birth control, and who challenges scientific evidence about homosexuality.

  So what, you ask, does the Holy Father agree with scientists on? Actually, now that you mention it, it's hard to tell.

  

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• June 26, 2009
  South Carolina gov; Nevada senator - Maine governor?
  By Jeff Inglis

  The Washington Post has an interesting article about a bizarre and secretive home/boarding house/"Christian prayer group" in Washington DC to which unfaithful South Carolina governor Mark Sanford and unfaithful Nevada senator John Ensign are connected.

  But way back in May 2003, the Portland Phoenix told you that Maine governor John Baldacci was connected to it too - he lived there when he was a congressman.

  

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• June 12, 2009
  Co-opting the Media: White-supremacist code printed nationwide
  By Jeff Inglis
  The white supremacist who is accused of shooting an African-American man at the US Holocaust Museum on June 10 has taken advantage of journalists' normal reporting practices to publish a white-supremacist code praising Adolf Hitler in every newspaper in the country.

  As every media outlet dutifully reported, the suspect, James von Brunn, is 88 years old.

  

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• June 09, 2009
  Eugene Mirman's Lexington High School Commencement Speech
  By Jeff Inglis
  When I graduated from high school, we didn't even have a celebrity speaker. It was just my friend Mark, who, it turns out, gave a nice speech, so much as I recall. (I also remember his down-to-the-wire grade-grubbing to ensure that he was our valedictorian and not his academic arch-enemy. He beat her after GPAs were calculated down to the thousandths place.

  

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• April 21, 2009
  Nigerians in the US military?
  By Jeff Inglis

  Well, by now we all know not to respond to those e-mails promising millions of dollars will come our way if only we allow our bank accounts to be used as conduits for smuggling money out of Nigeria, or South Africa, or wherever.

  But what do we do when someone purporting to be a member of the US military makes us the same offer? Isn't it our money in the first place, this money being shifted out of Iraq? The quandary deepens.

  

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• February 11, 2009
  Passing a virus along
  By Jeff Inglis

  Maine author Hannah Holmes, whose natural history of humans, The Well-Dressed Ape (Random House), I reviewed last month, has started a new viral campaign to help market her book. The first installment of her effort is this video, which I've embedded here:

  But I'll also share with you her note introducing the video, both to give you a sense of Hannah herself, and a sense of the book world as it stands today.

  

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• February 10, 2009
  Seriously, Congress? DTV?
  By Jeff Inglis

  Congress has pushed back the Digital TV transition (see "Kill Your Antenna," by Jeff Inglis, January 16) from this week until June, ostensibly to allow the estimated 5.8 million still-unprepared households additional time to get the converter boxes they will need to receive digital television signals broadcast over the airwaves.

  

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• January 09, 2009
  Portland Phoenix editor on TV
  By Jeff Inglis

  The Take Back Barack effort (started by the Portland Phoenix's managing editor Jeff Inglis and staff writer Deirdre Fulton with this article) is on TV throughout January around the nation, thanks to Liberty News TV. (It's a non-profit progressive outfit based here in Portland, and they accept donations!)

  

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