Common Dreams reports on Senator Bernie Sander's new proposal to break up the biggest banks, which have become both too big to fail and too big to jail. They are so big that the top six banks have assets equal to 2/3 of America's gross national product.
Those of you who read music might enjoy John Stump's score titled "Faerie's Aire and Death Waltz (from "A tribute to Zdenko G. Fibich"). I ran across this and enjoyed its repeated moments of musical absurdity.
I searched for some background for the piece and found this:
The composition Faerie's Aire and Death Waltz (from "A Tribute to Zdenko G. Fibich") by John Stump is an unpublished satirical work written and copyrighted in 1980 that is best known for, simultaneously, its humor and unplayability. The piece is most often seen hanging on the walls in music rooms and orchestral settings for the musicians' amusement, due to musical directions such as "Rigatoni", "light explosives now... and... now", "insert peanuts", "Moon-walk", "release the penguins", and "Like a Dirigible".
This is the funniest Onion News Network report I've ever seen. It's been around for awhile, but I just discovered it.
Scientists Successfully Teach Gorilla It Will Die Someday
"The numbers in this Alternet article are shocking. We are well on our way to having a country of very poor Americans ruled over by very rich Americans. Some would say, what are you proposing, COMMUNISM? No, just end the current corporate communism (privatized profits, socialized risks). We need go back to something like the tax codes of prior decades, and consider the other suggestions in the above article as well as the basic principles announced by Dylan Ratigan in his famous rant. Why should it matter to those who are still reasonably well off that there is a stark growing divide between rich and poor Americans? Because social science has demonstrated the clear correlation between income inequality and societal dysfunction.
This Ukrainian daredevil inflicts vertigo on the rest of us.