Greed is not good

Check out Matt Coker’s preview of the UCI “walkout” today: UC Irvine Faculty, Students, Staff to Teach In, Turn On, Walk Out Today.

Ah, yes, then there’s Manohla Dargis’ review of Michael Moore’s new movie, Capitalism: a Love Story (Greed Is Good? He Begs to Differ):

As it happens, the most galvanizing words in the movie come not from the current president but from [Franklin D.] Roosevelt, who in 1944 called for a “second bill of rights,” asserting that “true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence.” The image of this visibly frail president, who died the next year, appealing to our collective conscience — and mapping out an American future that remains elusive — is moving beyond words. And chilling: “People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” It’s a brilliant moment of cinema both for the man delivering the speech and for Mr. Moore, who smartly realized that he’d found one other voice that needed to be as loud as his own.

Don’t forget: board meeting tonight.