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New York Times: “Dozens of people across seven states, most of them in the West, have become ill in a salmonella outbreak linked to a recall of 1.7 million eggs, federal safety regulators said. The August Egg Company, of Hilmar, Calif., issued the recall of brown organic and brown cage-free eggs tied to multiple brands that were distributed to grocery stores from Feb. 3 to May 15 this year because of their potential to be contaminated with salmonella, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday. At least 79 people have gotten ill from the outbreak linked to the eggs, with 21 people hospitalized, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a separate statement on Friday. Most of the those sickened (63) live in California, which is followed by Nevada and Washington State, with four illnesses each. Illnesses have also been reported in Arizona, Kentucky, Nebraska and New Jersey. No deaths have been reported.”

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Zoë Schlanger in the Atlantic: "Throw out your black plastic spatula. In a world of plastic consumer goods, avoiding the material entirely requires the fervor of a religious conversion. But getting rid of black plastic kitchen utensils is a low-stakes move, and worth it. Cooking with any plastic is a dubious enterprise, because heat encourages potentially harmful plastic compounds to migrate out of the polymers and potentially into the food. But, as Andrew Turner, a biochemist at the University of Plymouth recently told me, black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid." This is a gift link from laura h.

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CNN did a live telecast Saturday night (June 7) of the Broadway play "Good Night, and Good Luck," written by George Clooney and Grant Heslov, about legendary newsman Edward R. Murrow's effort to hold to account Sen. Joe McCarthy, "the junior senator from Wisconsin." Clooney plays Murrow. Here's Murrow himself with his famous take on McCarthy & McCarthyism, brief remarks that especially resonate today: ~~~

     ~~~ This article lists ways you still can watch the play. 

New York Times: “The New York Times Company has agreed to license its editorial content to Amazon for use in the tech giant’s artificial intelligence platforms, the company said on Thursday. The multiyear agreement 'will bring Times editorial content to a variety of Amazon customer experiences,' the news organization said in a statement. Besides news articles, the agreement encompasses material from NYT Cooking, The Times’s food and recipe site, and The Athletic, which focuses on sports. This is The Times’s first licensing arrangement with a focus on generative A.I. technology. In 2023, The Times sued OpenAI and its partner, Microsoft, for copyright infringement, accusing the tech companies of using millions of articles published by The Times to train automated chatbots without any kind of compensation. OpenAI and Microsoft have rejected those accusations.” ~~~

     ~~~ Marie: I have no idea what this means for "the Amazon customer experience." Does it mean that if I don't have a NYT subscription but do have Amazon Prime I can read NYT content? And where, exactly, would I find that content? I don't know. I don't know.

Washington Post reporters asked three AI image generators what a beautiful woman looks like. "The Post found that they steer users toward a startlingly narrow vision of attractiveness. Prompted to show a 'beautiful woman,' all three tools generated thin women, without exception.... Her body looks like Barbie — slim hips, impossible waist, round breasts.... Just 2 percent of the images showed visible signs of aging. More than a third of the images had medium skin tones. But only nine percent had dark skin tones. Asked to show 'normal women,' the tools produced images that remained overwhelmingly thin.... However bias originates, The Post’s analysis found that popular image tools struggle to render realistic images of women outside the Western ideal." ~~~

     ~~~ Marie: The reporters seem to think they are calling out the AI programs for being unrealistic. But there's a lot about the "beautiful women" images they miss. I find these omissions remarkably sexist. For one thing, the reporters seem to think AI is a magical "thing" that self-generates. It isn't. It's programmed. It's programmed by boys, many of them incels who have little or no experience or insights beyond comic books and Internet porn of how to gauge female "beauty." As a result, the AI-generated women look like cartoons; that is, a lot like an air-brushed photo of Kristi Noem: globs of every kind of dark eye makeup, Scandinavian nose, Botox lips, slathered-on skin concealer/toner/etc. makeup, long dark hair and the aforementioned impossible Barbie body shape, including huge, round plastic breasts. 

New York Times: “George Clooney’s Broadway debut, 'Good Night, and Good Luck,' has been one of the sensations of the 2024-25 theater season, breaking box office records and drawing packed houses of audiences eager to see the popular movie star in a timely drama about the importance of an independent press. Now the play will become much more widely available: CNN is planning a live broadcast of the penultimate performance, on June 7 at 7 p.m. Eastern. The performance will be preceded and followed by coverage of, and discussion about, the show and the state of journalism.”

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~~~ New York Times: “Bought for $27.50 after World War II, the faint, water stained manuscript in the library of Harvard Law School had attracted relatively little attention since it arrived there in 1946. That is about to change. Two British academics, one of whom happened on the manuscript by chance, have discovered that it is an original 1300 version — not a copy, as long thought — of Magna Carta, the medieval document that helped establish some of the world’s most cherished liberties. It is one of just seven such documents from that date still in existence.... A 710-year-old version of Magna Carta was sold in 2007 for $21.3 million.... First issued in 1215, it put into writing a set of concessions won by rebellious barons from a recalcitrant King John of England — or Bad King John, as he became known in folklore. He later revoked the charter, but his son, Henry III, issued amended versions, the last one in 1225, and Henry’s son, Edward I, in turn confirmed the 1225 version in 1297 and again in 1300.”

NPR lists all of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize winners. Poynter lists the prizes awarded in journalism as well as the finalists in these categories.

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The Commentariat -- May 14, 2012

Paul Krugman: "... what JPMorgan has just demonstrated is that even supposedly smart bankers must be sharply limited in the kinds of risk they’re allowed to take on." ...

... "What this country needs is a businessman for President!" Clip from John Ford's 1939 film "Stagecoach":

... Heidi Moore of Marketplace explains what JPMorgan Chase did. In layman's terms. ...

... Eric Wasson of The Hill: "Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), who has been leading the fight to create a strong Volcker rule, sounded confident he may now have the upper hand. 'The price will be they will lose their battle in Washington to weaken the rule,' he said, in an appearance ["Meet the Press."] Levin warned that the Treasury department appears intent on allowing the kind of risky $100 billion bet that JPMorgan made, and that allowing rules to be watered down could risk another massive taxpayer funded bailout of the banking system that was needed during the 2008 financial crisis." CW: You go, Timmy. ...

... Watch Jamie Squirm under David Gregory's devastating questioning. Ha ha:

... Alex Pareene: "Let’s put JPMorgan Chase chairman, president and CEO James 'Jamie' Dimon on trial... Let’s haul him before a judge (I would be fine with Judge Judy) and ask him to explain, without jargon, what positive role JPMorgan plays for the American and world economies that a few much smaller, less leveraged firms couldn't also play while not being at risk of losing billions of dollars by accident in a 'hedge' and sending world markets reeling."

... "Too Crooked to Fail.: Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone: "At least Bank of America got its name right. The ultimate Too Big to Fail bank really is America, a hypergluttonous ward of the state whose limitless fraud and criminal conspiracies we'll all be paying for until the end of time. Did you hear about the plot to rig global interest rates? The $137 million fine for bilking needy schools and cities? The ingenious plan to suck multiple fees out of the unemployment checks of jobless workers? Take your eyes off them for 10 seconds and guaranteed, they'll be into some shit again."

CW: haven't read it all yet, & I'm aware of the general story, but Jeff Toobin's long blow-by-blow of how Chief Justice John Roberts engineered the Citizens United case promises to be entertaining & maddening. ...

... Margaret Talbot of the New Yorker makes a prediction: "There are four same-sex marriage lawsuits making their way toward the Supreme Court now.... In 1956, the Supreme Court declined to take a case challenging interracial-marriage laws; by 1967, it had to. And, eventually, the Court will do the right thing on same-sex marriage, just as the President did last week. As in the [1967] Loving decision, the Court will reaffirm that the 'freedom to marry has long been recognized as one of the vital personal rights essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men.' And it will finally uphold that freedom for gay and lesbian American."

Katy Waldman in Slate on the eight times a U.S. vice president did something that mattered.

Presidential Race

A thank-you note from Andrew Sullivan & Tina Brown of Newsweek. Sullivan has the cover story, which isn't up yet at this writing, and I won't be looking for it. Still, eat your heart out, Willard. You will not be getting an MSM cover -- ever -- in which a halo appears above your perfect hair. ...

... Peter Baker & Rachel Swarns of the New York Times: "In the hours following Mr. Obama’s politically charged announcement on Wednesday, the president and his team embarked on a quiet campaign to contain the possible damage among religious leaders and voters. He also reached out to one or more of the five spiritual leaders he calls regularly for religious guidance, and his aides contacted other religious figures who have been supportive in the past. The damage-control effort underscored the anxiety among Mr. Obama's advisers about the consequences of the president's revised position just months before what is expected to be a tight re-election vote." ...

... Laurie Goodstein of the New York Times: "Mr. Obama's declaration last week that he supports same-sex marriage prompted ministers around the country to take to their pulpits on Sunday and preach on the issue. But in the clash over homosexuality, the battle ... is actually church versus church, minister versus minister, and Scripture versus Scripture."

Ken Thomas of the AP: "President Barack Obama is casting Mitt Romney as a greedy, job-killing corporate titan with little concern for the working class in a new, multi-pronged effort that seeks to undermine the central rationale for his Republican rival's candidacy: his business credentials. At the center of the push -- the president's most forceful attempt yet to sully Romney before the November election -- is a biting new TV ad airing Monday that recounts through interviews with former workers the restructuring, and ultimate demise, of a Kansas City, Mo., steel mill under the Republican's private equity firm." ...

... "We view Mitt Romney as a jobs destroyer." New Obama campaign TV ad:

     ... The accompanying RomneyEconomics.com Web page.

Earlier this month, Matt Viser & Tracy Jan of the Boston Globe wondered about Romney's plan to regulate Wall Street: "Republican Mitt Romney is pledging, if he is elected president, to repeal the Dodd-Frank financial regulations, a position favored by donors on Wall Street who have sent millions the candidate's way. But he is nearly silent on how -- without the regulation -- he would prevent Wall Street from once again engaging in the risky practices that helped cause the 2008 financial crisis." ...

... The J.P. Morgan news should sharpen the contrast between the two candidates considerably, and gives new meaning to Romney's frequent claim that he wants to 'get government out of the way' and let the free market work its magic. -- Greg Sargent

Sahil Kapur of TPM: "As he prepares to release his scaled-back version of the DREAM Act, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is simultaneously laying the groundwork to blame the White House for its impending failure — and Democrats appear to be falling into his trap.... Blaming the White House papers over the fact that Republicans have fiercely opposed measures that benefit people living in the country illegally.... Even so, administration officials and top Democrats may be playing into Rubio's hands by resisting his effort.... Rubio's [purpose] is to obfuscate a clear and important distinction between the two parties among a key constituency that may potentially swing the outcome of what is expected to be a close election."

"Chaos in Tampa." Steve Kornacki of Salon: At the Arizonia Republican convention this past weekend, Ron Pau' supporters booed Willard's son Josh Romney off the stage (or they didn't, depending on whom you believe). Anyhoo, "This weekend brought another reminder of the real threat that Ron Paul and his supporters pose to Mitt Romney: Chaos in Tampa."

News Ledes

New York Times: "Despite their hard line in public, German policy makers, including Chancellor Angela Merkel, have begun to hint at some flexibility on the deep and painful budget cuts European officials have demanded. In Greece, despite outrage at the cost of carrying out European demands for austerity, few seem prepared to argue that the costs of leaving the euro -- and perhaps severing political ties to Europe -- are really bearable."

New York Times: "A bill that would have allowed civil unions for same-sex couples in Colorado was defeated on Monday night during a special legislative session called by Gov. John W. Hickenlooper to debate the issue. The legislation was voted down by Republican lawmakers on 5-to-4 vote along party lines after more than two hours of emotional testimony in the State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee, where it was assigned Monday by Republican leadership in the House of Representatives." Denver Post story here.

AP: "The judge overseeing the criminal trial of John Edwards will sharply curtail the testimony of a key witness for the defense who could raise doubt about whether the former presidential candidate broke campaign finance laws."

AP: "Best Buy's founder Richard Schulze is stepping down as chairman of the beleaguered consumer-electronics chain after the company's investigation revealed that he failed to alert the board of directors when he learned that the CEO was having an inappropriate relationship with a female employee."

New York Times: today California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) "announced that the [state budget] shortfall had shot up ... from $9.2 billion in January, blaming a drop in revenue caused by a bad economy and court rulings barring spending cuts the state had approved. He proposed $8.3 billion in cuts, slashing welfare, social services and health care for the elderly, and a 5 percent cut in hours for state employees."

NBC News: "Texas Rep. Ron Paul said Monday that he'll cease campaigning in upcoming caucuses and primaries, an announcement of symbolic, if not substantive, significance."

NY1 News: "President Barack Obama is coming to [New York] City Monday to deliver the commencement address at all-female Barnard College and attend two high-profile fundraisers." ...

     ... New York Times Update: "President Obama's commencement speech at Barnard College on Monday highlighted the role of women in public life, a return to gender-gap identity politics that Democrats are hoping will benefit them in the coming election." See video of speech in Tuesday's Commentariat.

New York Times: "Yahoo's embattled chief executive, Scott Thompson, stepped down on Sunday after just four months on the job, sending the flailing company into limbo once again even as it faces intensifying competition from the likes of Facebook and Google for the attention of Web users. Mr. Thompson, who left amid a continuing inquiry into his academic credentials, will be replaced on an interim basis by Ross Levinsohn, Yahoo's global head of media...." ...

... The Atlantic: "The Wall Street Journal reports that shortly before stepping down as CEO, Scott Thompson told Yahoo's board that he was recently diagnosed with thyroid cancer.... While the health issue allowed him to cite 'personal reasons' as the impetus for his departure..., Yahoo is officially designating his departure as 'for cause.' The termination with cause means that Thompson will not be entitled to his full severance package."

Washington Post: "The embarrassing losses at megabank JPMorgan Chase reverberated in Washington, Wall Street and on the campaign trail Sunday, with JPMorgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon acknowledging that the bank 'made a terrible, egregious mistake' by dismissing worrisome signs earlier this year about the bank's trading strategy. JPMorgan, the largest U.S. bank, was poised on Sunday to accept the resignations of three executives involved in the botched strategy.... Elizabeth Warren ... called on Dimon to resign from the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, a critical interlocutor between Wall Street and Washington." ...

     ... New York Times Update: "Stung by a huge trading loss, JPMorgan Chase will replace three top traders starting Monday, including one of the top women on Wall Street, in an effort to stem the ire that the bank faces from regulators and investors." ...

     ... New York Times Update 2: "Ina Drew, the chief investment officer who presided over JPMorgan Chase's $2 billion trading loss announced last week, has retired from the bank, according to a statement on Monday.... Two of Ms. Drew's lieutenants, Achilles Macris and Javier Martin-Artajo, are also expected to resign."

Reuters: "Greece's president met little enthusiasm from political leaders summoned to a final round of talks on Monday to avert a new election, reinforcing fears the country was firmly on the path to bankruptcy and an exit from the euro zone. European shares slid and Spanish and Italian bond yields rose as the political deadlock threatened to reignite the euro zone debt crisis. Greek banking stocks tumbled 7 percent."

AP: "Forty-nine bodies with their heads, hands and feet hacked off were found Sunday dumped on a northern Mexico highway leading to the Texas border in what appeared to be the latest carnage in an escalating war between Mexico's two dominant drug cartels."

AP: "China accused the Dalai Lama of being deceitful Monday after he reportedly alleged that Chinese agents trained Tibetan women to assassinate him by planting poison in their hair for him to touch during blessings. The Chinese Foreign Ministry said the Tibetan spiritual leader's allegations, reported in the London-based Sunday Telegraph newspaper, were not worth refuting, but added that he generally spreads false information."

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Pleased to see Dr. Krugman happened upon the "Stagecoach" script, which caused me to smile a month ago when I discovered it; just thought I'd share its nub and take a moment to reflect on the days when Hollywood really did tend toward pink. Of course they had a good reason back in the day: the Depression....just as Krugman has an excellent one today for dusting it off and presenting it anew.


"GATEWOOD
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I actually had a letter, from some
popinjay official, saying they were
going to inspect my books! I have a
programme, gentlemen, that should be
blazoned on every newspaper in the
country.

Gatewood now addresses his remarks to Lucy, as the most worthy
of attention.

GATEWOOD
America for Americans! Don't let the
government meddle with business!
Reduce taxes! Our national debt is
shocking...

Lucy leans against the side of the coach, as far away from
him as possible.

Doc Boone is staring lovingly into Peacock's face.

GATEWOOD
(off)
...over a billion dollars! What the
country needs is a businessman for
President!"


Sounds like the Romney campaign, doesn't it? I hope I'm still laughing come November.

May 14, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterKen Winkes

@Ken Winkes. Thanks. Last summer somebody -- might have been Krugman -- pointed out how Ford's banker was so much like our bankers; I ran the whole movie on RealityChex. You can still see it here (you may have to fool with the Adblock filter).

Great Depression-era films were full of rich people portrayed as buffoons, but I do think it's notable that Ford placed his crooked banker in a period piece. Perhaps even with the U.S. still feeling the effects of the Great Depression, it was safer to place a crooked banker who railed against regulation in a story about "the old days." Akhilleus is something of a film historian. Perhaps he can elaborate.

May 14, 2012 | Registered CommenterMarie Burns

Any excuse to write about film, you can count me in.

The Stagecoach banker is such a perfect avatar for today's Masters of the Universe, you'd be hard pressed to find a better representative of modern right-wing values.

Ford and his writers Dudley Nichols and Ben Hecht (Hecht, a superb writer, was mostly on board as what we now call a script doctor. He added some plot ideas and contributed dialogue fixes) based Stagecoach on a short story, Stage to Lordsburg by Ernest Haycox, a prolific writer of the period. Most of the characters that end up on screen are in the original story except the banker. Ford and Nichols (and Hecht) were all supporters of the New Deal. Ford’s politics hardened considerably later but at this point he was still, if not a liberal, at least no friend to “business as usual” Republicans who wanted to hang Roosevelt for meddling with what they considered their ability to print money for themselves at the expense of average Americans. As many have noted by now, it’s amazing how closely the rants of the crooked banker, Gatewood, mirror the screams from the Right all through the Republican primaries and every night on Fox. “America for Americans” is one in particular that has been a staple of the Right for generations. In recent years Republicans of most stripe have felt the toxic kick of the nationalism/xenophobia cocktail, from Pat Buchanan to Joe Arpaio and, depending on the audience, Mitt Romney.

Oh, one other nice parallel between then and now: the banker’s wife was the head of the Women’s Morality League in town. She is instrumental in setting up a posse of high-minded protectors of morality in booting the Claire Trevor character out of town. She has been plying her wares in the second oldest profession (I think banking is the oldest…) and is being forced to leave town. Can’t you see Sarah Palin and Ann Romney forcing gay and lesbian couples on the stage out of town to remove their sins from the eyes of decent folks?

Westerns were an unusual genre for this kind of story, one reason Stagecoach has such a place of honor in American film history. That and the year it came out. 1939 is considered the watershed year of American film. Before that it was mostly entertainment. That year, the year the European tinderbox exploded, Hollywood took notice and stopped pretending that we weren’t part of the rest of the world. American film during the war years became considerably darker, the storylines more mature, harder edged.
As metaphor Stagecoach operates in an unusually prescient way for American films of the 30s. The characters, all strangers, are thrust together and endure much hardship and terror along their journey, learning to help and trust each other. They all grow over the course of the film. All except the banker. He remains the asshole he was in the beginning. Like a certain current presidential candidate, he is solipsism personified. His disconnect from everyone else on the stagecoach and his inability to recognize any flaws in his character or to admit to wrongdoing even though he preaches virtue and austerity to others while making of with his depositors' money, allows him to indulge in the worst vices while blaming others and holding himself free from responsibility.

Sound familiar?

Perhaps the most salient film genre to emerge during the depression years was the screwball comedy. Films like Bringing up Baby, My Man Godfrey, Nothing Sacred, It Happened One Night, Holiday, and the Philadelphia Story portray the rich as fun-loving whackos. A little crazy but harmless. There was some attempt at referencing the larger and scarier economic issues facing most Americans during the depression but it was done mostly with humor. Certain scenes, such as the boy on the bus in It Happened One Night, whose mother collapses due to lack of food, offer the rich heiress played by Claudette Colbert, a chance to demonstrate her humanity by helping him out (with the last of the money she had), but screwball comedies are saved from inanity and complete fantasy by showing the rich as having the ability to change.

Most of the characters, even a dyed in the wool plutocrat like Edward Norton in You Can’t Take it With You (a Capra film based on the Pulitzer prize winning Kaufman and Hart play) are able to learn the lessons of humanity that money and a privileged upbringing had denied them. But most important, is the sense, in many of these films, that we are all in it together. The rich certainly do lead lives much different than that boy and his mother on the bus, but they are not immune to human feeling. Like the characters on the stagecoach in the Ford film, they learn and grow.

So, okay, it’s not real life, but at least during the depression it gave the impression to most movie fans that rich people don’t have it quite as good as they always thought.

Even if they did.

But the banker in Stagecoach with his smug, sanctimonious preaching and backhanded, criminal dealings remind one of the current crop of crooks and scoundrels who, like Lloyd Blankfein, lecture the rest of us on how they are busy doing “god’s work” and we should be thankful to them. Ford, Nichols, and Hecht nailed those sons of bitches. He might be a caricature, but about the best caricatures hang the scent of truth.

May 14, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterAkhilleus

Oh and one other thing about the portrayal of right-wing demagoguery and thievery in Stagecoach. Marie makes the point that Ford centers his criticism of bankers in a period piece. Statements like "America for Americans" might not have been quite as big a deal in the 1880s out in the territories, but that sentiment would have struck a chord with those in the late 30s who could see homegrown fascism and isolationism raising itself up.

The funny thing is that within ten years of the release of Stagecoach, that sentiment, "America for Americans" found new cachet with many on the Right. It would have been considered an act of great political bravery in the political realignment of power that took place during the postwar years to have made a big banker an object of xenophobic and deregulatory derision during those years. Most screenwriters who tried that sort of thing were called up before great Americans like Richard Nixon, Joe McCarthy and Roy Cohn and blackballed for years. Of course if they lived long enough, writers like Dalton Trumbo, one of the original Hollywood Ten (notice how much the Right hates writers. Every single member of that group was a writer. This is why censorship is so much a part of right-wing ideology), would enjoy a kind hero status once the winds turned again during the 60s.

It's a tricky business.

May 14, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterAkhilleus
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