We’re Not Worthy
I think we have reached the absolutely absurd end of austerity kneejerking: Eric Cantor has asserted that disaster relief for the thoroughly devastated town of Joplin should not be added to the...
View ArticleIn Denial? Out of Touch? What Do We Mean By Recession?
Reading this morning’s news coverage of yesterday’s significant losses at the stock market, I notice certain phrases keep popping up that seem to indicate a sense of denial or delusion about the actual...
View ArticleNo Tomorrow, No Dead End in Sight
People have always been saying America ain’t what it used to be, even though it never was, because it satisfies some mopey instinct we have to pine for a lost America rather than try to create a...
View ArticleFriedman Gets to Third Base
Sometimes Tom Friedman says something that sounds like the start of a good column. Well, almost the start — there were a couple of paragraphs of crappy writing to skim through before we get to it, but...
View ArticleTake a Stand for Lemonade Stands!
The other day I put a new post on my lemonade stand tumblr. Some average citizen has declared August 20th “Lemonade Stand Day” in protest against what he perceives as Big Brother oppressing little kids...
View ArticleLemonade Stand Activists Arrested
Another post at my Lemonade Stand Meme tumblr. I am all for citizens engaging in civil disobedience to gain notice for their causes and to protest injustice. But I fail to see why protesting against...
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Both of These Things Are Much Like the Other
Two images making the rounds this week have at least one thing in common. via MoveOn.org And from The Gothamist Here are two things I see: history and causality. The debt graph reaches beyond the last...
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Earth2 Eisenhower
Following President Obama’s state of the union address on Tuesday — or really, even as it was going on, via social media — conservatives and libertarians hauled out all of their tired old arguments...
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Realtor
Not a day goes by in Portland when I don’t hear someone (probably me) complaining about the rising cost of housing in Portland. The city is growing, and new home construction cannot keep apace with...
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Poverty
When my GF saw this, she said, “Wow, your brain weasels are worse than mine.” This year has been really rough financially for me. Despite a middle class income, I find it more and more difficult to...
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