Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Bailout for Writers!

Lots of buzz lately on why writers are entitled to their own bailout:

Bail Out the Writers!

By PAUL GREENBERG
Published: December 9, 2008

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/books/review/Greenberg-t.html?_r=1&8bu&emc=bub1#
(I never knew FDR had started the Federal Writers’ Project, "under which some 6,000 out-of-work writers were hired over a period of several years to write guidebooks, oral histories, ethnographies and the like, and in the process “describe America to Americans.”)

Too Big to Fail

by Andy Borowitz

September 29, 2008
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2008/09/29/080929sh_shouts_borowitz

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