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A Glimmer of Hope?

by EmmaZahn 2/25/2013 - 8:44 pm

At first I was not going to open the e-mail I got from my brand new Congressman this morning because I expected it to be the same-old-same-old that I have received in the past from my Congress critters telling me what they think about the latest issues.  What a pleasant surprise it was instead to be asked what I think for a change -- and the choices were not phrased all that leading.  Here they are:

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Middle Town Middle Georgia 1947

by EmmaZahn 10/23/2012 - 6:23 pm

Not at all sleepy.  It's just brimming with post WW2 optimism.

 

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Adam Wheeler Went to Harvard |Jim Newell |The Baffler

by EmmaZahn 8/1/2012 - 2:51 pm

On December 23, 2011, the dons of Harvard University finally got to see Adam Wheeler sentenced to a year in prison. Wheeler, a twenty-five-year-old whom they admitted in 2007 on the strength of an academic record he’d fabricated out of thin air, had been caught again—and this was not something a young gentleman does to America’s most highly self-regarded institution of advanced credentialing.

...the rest of the story....

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Arrggghhh

by EmmaZahn 7/1/2012 - 5:38 pm

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The Spiders - a graphic novel-in-progress by Patrick Farley

by EmmaZahn 6/6/2012 - 12:40 pm

The Spiders @ electricsheepcomix.com 

 

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Who's watching what where

by EmmaZahn 5/29/2012 - 9:07 pm

How good are you at guessing what TV shows are popular where?  I was surprised by some of what AdAge's two new interactive maps revealed.

Top Network Shows by County Type

Top Cable TV Shows by County

Counties have been assigned descriptive demographic labels like Boom Town, Tractor Country, Moneyed Burbs, Minority Central, Evangelical Epicenters, Service Worker Centers, Immigration Nation, etc.  It's a marketing site. [Read more]

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The Ultimate Meaninglessness of Money

by EmmaZahn 11/21/2011 - 4:40 pm

If you haven't already seen today's xkcd cartoon, I hope you will take a few minutes to look at some interesting, some amusing and some appalling information about how much different things cost in 2011 dollars.  

If, like me, you think that dollars or whatever token form money takes represent human time and energy, then xkcd has seriously underestimated the total economic productivity of the human race so far at $2,396,500,000,000,000. [Read more]

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Appointment in Samarra?

by EmmaZahn 9/7/2011 - 9:45 pm

In attempting to avert catastrophic climate change and/or replace petroleum as our primary energy source, are we inadvertently hastening it? That is the question that came to mind after studying these images and their accompanying article, Geotimes - April 2008 - Desert Power: A Solar Renaissance: [Read more]

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Winning with Smack Talk

by EmmaZahn 8/8/2011 - 12:47 pm

Kevin Drum @ Mother Jones:

"I've been browsing through conservative websites tonight, and the amount of crowing over the 'Obama downgrade' is really pretty remarkable. S&P made it crystal clear that brinksmanship over the debt ceiling was the reason for the downgrade, and Republicans not only provoked the brinksmanship and bragged about it for months, but have since gleefully promised to repeat their performance at every opportunity. And yet they're now insisting that this is all Obama's fault. It's a display of chutzpah that's shameless even by their standards." [Read more]

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Pay Cut Disguised as Tax Cut

by EmmaZahn 6/16/2011 - 11:34 am

My reply to A Better Payroll Tax Cut | ThinkProgress

How can I convince you that what you are considering is in reality a general pay cut.

What is a payroll tax to employers is a form of compensation to employees. In the case of FICA it is deferred compensation in the form of a retirement annuity. Last year's cut letting employees take the compensation now rather deferring to retirement was one thing but now to even consider cutting the employer's portion without requiring that it be passed on to employees is effectively a cut in their pay and a windfall to the employers.

Of course owners and the self-employed will love the idea but don't progressives generally support labor? [Read more]

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