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Recession Love; or, Bad Times Good for Romances

In a flurry of pink prose, headlines across the virtual Web are proclaiming the primacy of love: despite the sinking economy, people are still ponying up a few bucks to read the latest in love in lust: 
Along with chocolate and Big Macs, romance novels are showing a brisk level of sales. Here’s a fact that [...]

Posted on April 15th, 2009 under Men Were Men and Women Were Women, Pulp Westerns and Paperbacks; Book Reviews, State of the Union '09. Tags: , , , , , . Comments: 1

AIG High Noon Smackdown Hoedown Showdown

Weren’t we supposed to be done with all these cowboy showdowns? Then along comes AIG, thinking business as usual, and they caught caught in populist crossfire. I’d feel sorry for them, but I’m not. I can hear a constant rustling in the bushes as one by one all of AIG’s friends and comrades abandon them [...]

Posted on March 19th, 2009 under State of the Union '09, The Good the Bad the Fugly, What Would Gary Cooper Do?. Tags: , , , , , , , , . Comments: None