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Bowling Alone for Columbine
The world hasn’t ended yet, it just sometimes feels like it has. In reading about the terrible massacre in Newtown Connecticut, and the responses to it by various political actors, it struck me that the gun culture in this country … Continue reading
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Tagged Bowling Alone, General Electric, Going Postal, Jack Welch, Mark Ames, Newtown, NRA
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Too Big to Jail
I swear to God, if anyone tells me that we are a “country of laws,” I’m going to punch them in the face! Glen Greenwald has more on our two tiered system of justice. Much more. Yves Smith at Naked … Continue reading
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Tagged Glenn Greenwald, Naked Capitalism, Tim Geithner, Too Big to Jail, Yves Smith
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Neo-feudalism
I have two friends. Let’s call them Dick and Jane. Dick and Jane graduated from an elite liberal arts college where they met and married. They both went on to get advanced degrees: Jane, a masters in language and Dick … Continue reading
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Tagged neo-consrvatism, neo-feudalism, neo-liberalism, Paul Krugman
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The Problem with Full-Employment
Today is a national day of action sponsored by AFSCME to tell Congress to support jobs not cuts to social programs. I called my Senators and Representatives, but it got me to thinking. In the wake of a financial crash that … Continue reading
Things that make me want to guzzle anti-freeze
Taking Charles Pierces signature phrase out for a test drive. Lately, the so-called “financial cliff” reporting makes me too want to guzzle anti-freeze. The dominant narrative every day about the scary, scary “financial cliff” drives home the fact that we … Continue reading
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Tagged austerity, Charles Pierce, fiat currency, financial cliff, shock doctrine, starve the beast
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Bad Bet
Today on the Washington Post web site Ezra Klein interviews Chrystia Freeland, author of The Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else. During the interview Chrystia makes an amazing claim about the super … Continue reading
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Tagged Bain Capital, Chrystia Freeland, Mitt Romney, Szra Klein
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Winter Blogger
I’m back! Having two professions is nice in that I get to do something different every fall and every spring. Working as an irrigation contractor allows me to pay the bills. Instructing skiing allows me time to blog. Easing back … Continue reading
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Fairy Tales
What if the whole Protestant work ethic is a crock of shit? According to Wikipedia, the Protestant work ethic a set of values based on hard work and diligence. “It is also a belief in the moral benefit of work and … Continue reading
State Sponsored Terrorism
To anyone knowledgeable of the history of America’s covert operations, this latest expose from Seymour Hersh should come as no surprise. It turns out that the US has been secretly training terrorists, to attack countries we oppose. From 2005 to 2007, … Continue reading
Spy’n in Zion
Not dead yet. Been really busy with work, so sporadic posting. There’s an interesting story relating to the ongoing deep security state happening in my own backyard. It seems that the National Security Agency is building a huge facility at Camp … Continue reading
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