By Gregory Crofton “BILL W.” is a documentary about the man who founded Alcoholics Anonymous in 1935 with the help of Dr. Bob Smith, who Wilson had helped get sober. The first frames of the film are wonderful: Super 8…
Kurt Cobain on Identity and Punk Rock
“I felt so different and so crazy that people just left me alone. I always felt that they would vote me most likely to kill everyone at a high school dance, you know.” — Kurt Cobain
Clip from ‘Chuck Berry Hail! Hail! Rock ‘n’ Roll’
“Chuck Berry came to me to ask about changing the name from the Johnnie Johnson Trio to Chuck Berry Trio which was perfectly OK with me because Chuck was more of a go-getter and seemed to know more about the…
How The Economic Machine Works: Hedge Fund Billionaire Ray Dalio Explains Leverage
“The difference between a recession and a deleveraging is that in a deleveraging borrower’s debt burdens have simply gotten too big and can’t be relieved by lowering interests rates. Lenders realize that debts have become too large to ever be…
‘THE WAITING ROOM’: Welcome But Underwhelming Look at Our Expensive, Ineffective Healthcare System
By Gregory Crofton Providing quality healthcare without bankrupting its recipient should be common place for any decent society, and it should be our practice in the United States. But it’s not. We’re very far away from that standard. Medical professionals…