The Dead

James Joyce's story.

We all stand like Michael Furey, referenced in Joce's story - an invisibile presence yet in some ways more powerful than the Living - and strain to glimpse the beauty of a future now denied us.

The Republicans 0n the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission wish to write history, but have only gotten around to banning words we all use to describe Banks. Since Banks are things Republicans like more than mankind, they must clean up the langauge people use to talk about banks:

From Economist's View

During a private commission meeting last week, all four Republicans voted in favor of banning the phrases “Wall Street” and “shadow banking” and the words “interconnection” and “deregulation” from the panel’s final report, according to a person familiar with the matter and confirmed by Brooksley E. Born, one of the six commissioners who voted against the proposal.
“I think a number of us had really pulled for” bipartisan consensus, said Born... “But this action by the Republicans indicates they have decided to go their own way.”…

...That they would vote to not even use the words says all you need to know.

http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2010/12/words-will-never-hurt-us-or-our-cronies-if-we-dont-allow-them-to-be-used.html

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