M.B.G.
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Non-Profit |
| Occupation | Intern |
| Location | Brookline, MA, United States |
| Introduction | In my early twenties, I had two lives. In the moments when I wasn't driving, sitting, eating, reading, gambling, or sleeping in a trailer-hauling, 16- passenger Ford van careening at 80mph across the North American continent, I was sitting in a late 70's decor, Bartelby the Scribner-esque law office in East Orange, New Jersey working for my father. Through my many years of work spent at his consumer bankruptcy firm, I gradually became familiar with the extremely sexy issues of debt and predatory lending. In all seriousness though I learned to see through one of the most malicious and false rumors circulated by the vile and ever- popular Hannity/ Limbaugh/ Savage/ right wing talk circuit about debtors and clients of bankruptcy: that they are lazy slackers, looking for ways to buck the system and avoid responsibility for the debt they had accumulated. What I learned in between dozens of mildly debaucherous coast to coast runs was that "more than 90% of the people who file for bankruptcy do so after a job loss, death, or medical emergency hampers their ability to stay current on all their expenses." (Thanks Professor Warren) This really is a big deal. |
| Interests | the cold war, the depression, anita carter and the carter family, elizabeth warren, nick cave, andrew j bacevich, public radio, vietnam, alan lomax, the new republic. |
| Favorite Music | right now: the weakerthans, nick cave, jawbreaker, the rod stewart ron wood mickey waller (jeff beck) band, johnny and the hurricanes, leonard cohen, the carter family, merle haggard, rancid, matt pond p.a, NOFX, the stanley brothers, hank williams, woody guthrie, the louvin brothers, blind willie johnson, ritchie valens, mazzy star, screeching weasel. |