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Disgraced Rhode Island State Legislator Harnesses Power of the Internet to Act Like 14 Year Old Boy

Yesterday this writer was on Twitter when I saw a tweet from Rhode Island state legislator Dan Gordon (R-71) about the US House vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Admittedly, I was cranky, and after a day of reading bad economic news I felt a little fed up with the GOP’s continued bitching about the health care bill when Americans need some real leadership. I shot back a cranky response.


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This Week in Assholes

Another week and another crop of assholes. This week our harvest is plentiful. Already this week Baldwin told you about bankers being bad, BizMonkey shared some dickish responses to the health care decision by the Supreme Court, and Lucky explained Cookiegate. However, there are still plenty more reprehensible behavior this week that deserve special mention in our hall of shame. Continue reading

The Healthcare Debate Hits Home for a Banker Who Went Bankrupt

In 2004, my father, a former FDIC banker and “troubleshooter” within the private retail banking industry, declared bankruptcy. A man who spent the better part of his adult life fixing banks after the Texas Mortgage Crisis of the 80’s found his own finances so devastated that he gave his house to the state to pay his creditors and started from scratch at 62 years old.

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