The New(est) Dispensation of Kentucky’s Domain of Greed, Power, and Corruption

My institution, The University of Kentucky, continues to receive national media coverage for the embarrassments that take place on campus and in its administrative meetings.  Our latest shameful news is that the University Board of Trustees met today to discuss whether or not they would accept Joe Craft’s proposed gift of $7 million and the [...]

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Single Payer Healthcare

Our nation needs to have a single payer healthcare provider:  the U.S. government.  Every year, 22,000 people in our country die because they do not have access to healthcare.
There’s talk and speculation that Barack Obama might attempt to do something about this, but such talk might be optimism.  A Harper’s article juxtaposed the Obama of [...]

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Payday Advances

Some time last year I wrote a post about the roots of our consumer credit crisis and the subprime mortgage crisis. In that post, I likened the predatory lending and ultimate greed that caused our financial demise to the national behavior of Judah in the Eighth Century B.C.E.  The biblical poet Amos, writing during that [...]

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Speaking Truth to Power in a Press Conference

Yesterday, an ABC sports studio segment called attention to a recent tirade by UConn men’s basketball coach Jim Calhoun.

Apparently, during a post-game press conference, a reporter blindsided Calhoun by asking him how he reconciles the fact that he is the highest paid state employee while there exists a $2 billion budget [...]

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Back to the Future: A Pastoral

Ah, the power of love. I’m still a little bit in a funk from last week’s installment of the Summer Classics series at the Kentucky Theatre, the mid-1980s wish fantasy fulfillment, Back to the Future (1985). It’s hard to believe that the summer film series has canonized Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis alongside Hitchcock and [...]

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The “Credit Crisis” and the Dereliction of the US Housing Market

It’s no secret that the bane of the United States’ existence is its dirty habit of taking advantage of the poorest people in the nation. Some obvious examples of this include the liquor stores and instant tax rebate stands on every corner in my neighborhood or, even more obviously, our nation’s unwillingness to provide [...]

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