Paul Ryan and Class Mobility in 21st Century America

Original TPM link. And there ya go.

Game Review ToDo

I mentioned in this post that this year was to be a bit more focused on gaming.    Below is my New Year’s Resolution Review List.  These are games that I’ve missed or not worked my way through and would like to give it a shot in 2011.  Many of these I came across in the [...]

Holy Crap! Videogames! (RPN in 2011)

My very, very, very bad there.   You see I, uh, well, there was this thing, and I got involved with it, and stuff happened afterward (largely having to do with the eight years previous), I lost things and sold things and moved and pawned things, and sold things, and moved and on and on and [...]

The Bible, as seen from space

More available here.

Nice Interview re: war/commodity culture/tebaggers w/Henry Rollins

I love this perspective. So when you visit the troops now, how do you rein in some of your strongly held beliefs about war? Oh, that’s easy. It’s just really not the place for that. Quite often in these places like Afghanistan and Iraq, it’s a very apolitical situation. The job that day is not [...]

Morality and the Health Care Debate

Last week, after it became apparent that the GOP campaign of disinformation regarding the health care legislation was working wonderfully [1] President Obama shifted gears a bit to talk about *why* this change is necessary. WASHINGTON — President Obama sought Wednesday to reframe the health care debate as “a core ethical and moral obligation,” imploring [...]

The World This Week, March 22, 2009

[videos forthcoming] US NEWS People thieving the electrons. Obama: Economy hurts.  Duh. Obama Budget Strategy raises questions. New home construction gets a lift (month-to-month). Small business help on the way. Fed prints money like mad. A couple economists agree that printing money is a good idea…today. China wants a new global currency standard. Palin to [...]

World This Week, Obama, Stewart, China, Russia, Cheney, Rush, Summers

Part 1: Part 2: Here’s the links for the video… Obama talkin’ to the CEO’s. Jon Stewart slamming Jim Cramer and CNBC. China on the offensive in the  Impeccable. China on that $1,000,000,000,000 note of ours. Russian bombers and new bases. World Bank on global economy shrinkage. Cheney being Cheney, which is to say, a [...]

Why I’m a Writer, Not a “Blogger”

So I finally finished reading Andrew Sullivan’s piece on “Why I Blog” (available here, as a four page blog post).  He hits the nail on the head on why I’m not a blogger with this paragraph (and a half). If all this sounds postmodern, that’s because it is. And blogging suffers from the same flaws [...]

The Economic Apocalypse (retro-look)

This line of thought began with this MetaFilter post linking to this FRONTLINE piece on what happened with the banking/ibanking sector last Fall. [BTW, the best animation explanation of the problems is here.] The FRONTLINE documentary does a great job at pointing out some of the players in the mix and the personal relationships that [...]

A Quick Note About the Stimulus Package

Been seeing and hearing a lot of lamentations lately about the stimulus package.  A lot of them seem to be nebulous complaints not focused on the actual legislation, but more of the ideological whining that plagues our Democracy. After actually looking at a nice, objective, analysis of what’s in the package (which you can read [...]

Every Day is a Gift (Even for Republicans)

I put together this little video the other day to try and make a point.   During the video I hold up a particular book that talks about, generally, some of the stuff I am gettting at in the video.  Here’s the vid… After I had created the video (which I recorded on Valentine’s Day) I [...]

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