Whitewash

  1. Robosigning 2.0: Coming to a Foreclosure Review Near You

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    I predicted based on the job ad qualifications that the foreclosure reviews would be nothing other than a whitewash. Last October, I wrote a post entitled "Robosigning 2.0" that discussed some job ads for outsourced OCC foreclosure reviews.

  2. Joint Review: Daughter of the Centaurs by Kate Klimo

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    To whitewash is to use a white representation for a character that is not white and it is a sickening form of discrimination that must end. Title: Daughter of the Centaurs Author: Kate Klimo Genre: Science Fiction, Post-Apocalyptic, Fantast, Young...

  3. Hemingway's Boat by Paul Hendrickson – review

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    There's something redemptive about such language; it restores what's best about the man without resorting to whitewash or soft soap. The result is both original and beautiful On 26 September 2001, an ageing male-to-female transsexual was arrested...

  4. The Bat Segundo Show: Thomas Frank

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    If you’re going to follow this ideology and this utopian vision that they have of what I call “market populism” — if you’re going to follow that all the way — and, of course, part of the idea of this is that you’re going to have to follow it all...

  1. Mark Twain gets birthday tribute from Google

    They take the bait and bribe him with their treasures to let them whitewash the fence for him, as "the retired artist sat on a barrel in the shade close by … literally rolling in wealth". Pictorial homage to Tom Sawyer graces search engine on the...

  2. Mark Twain celebrated in Google doodle

    The full-width illustration greeting web users logging on to the search engine portrays an episode in the novel in which the protagonist is made to whitewash a fence. Google Doodle pays tribute to Mark Twain by depicting scenes from The Adventures...

  3. Through a Glass Darkly

    Perhaps that was all true, but it read like a big whitewash of what was probably a normal human life that had become unendurable for some reason. From the sculpture gallery at Chatsworth Many bloggers (who I greatly admire) have explained that...