watch it: the weekly address from President-elect Barack Obama

What’s that one-spirit, one-family stuff he’s talking? As long as the people who engineered this financial disaster — the CEOs of banks and brokerages and auto companies and airlines and big-box superstores and all the others — not only go unpunished and but actually retain the rewards of their incompetence and malfeasance, this is just … more…

watch it: “Shopping Can Be Fun (1957)”

Don’t shop on “Black Friday” — that’s what they want you to do to: Why do they want you to shop? Why are they so gung-ho on getting you to the mall? What’s in it for them? Did they really have to tell us that shopping can be fun? Couldn’t we have figured it out … more…