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NPR: Another Hackle Management Crisis

By amike on Mon, 02/16/2009 - 2:00pm |
I hadn't planned to start the week with another rant about NPR...I really hadn't.  But now I'm sitting trying to think of another reason aside from inertia to renew my membership.  Divorcing myself from Public Radio will be painful to...
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What does Wall Street do?

By amike on Sat, 02/14/2009 - 11:54am |
Mainly, it lies there. a pile of asphalt showing its age. It runs from Broadway to South Street--a skinny little thing, hardly worth calling a thoroughfare. It has a church at one end, sort of--but it can't really claim it,...
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A Valentine's Day Card--no sloppy poetry, guaranteed

By amike on Fri, 02/13/2009 - 5:37pm |
At 9:00 sharp this morning my blood pressure returned to normal and my mood improved considerably.  My local NPR station's Valentine's Day Fund Drive was over.  It would be a year until I would be urged to send a significant...
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Poor, Poor, Rich Folks (Really)

By amike on Tue, 02/10/2009 - 6:03pm |
Reading TheraP's most interesting post, "how much is too much" the other day reminded me about something I've felt nearly all my life.  Rags to riches stories have never inspired me.  Sorry Horatio Alger, not a single one of your...
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Election Peripheral? So Moved.

By amike on Mon, 02/02/2009 - 8:19pm |
I'm having withdrawal pangs from Election Central, and for me, DC is no substitute.  I know that DC is where the action is.   After all, the village elders all over the media tell me so.  And I know it...
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Who is the brightest, most charismatic Progressive in Ohio 8?

By amike on Thu, 01/29/2009 - 10:11am |
One of the frustrating things about our federal system is when one's own state has a fine set of Senators and Congressmen one feels helpless in the face of bull-headed intransigence elected elsewhere.  I watched Minority Leader John Boehner, sourer...
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Reconstruct Education by De-constructing Schools

By amike on Wed, 01/21/2009 - 10:30pm |
Things move quickly at TPM Cafe.  A day or so I was reading a blog entry by cmaukonen entitled Some "Stringy" Money for Education.  As often happens, the post entered my subconscious and percolated there a  bit, until it bubbled...
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The Glory of the Cheap Seats.

By amike on Tue, 01/20/2009 - 12:39pm |
I'm sitting in my office at the university, listening to C-span and waiting for the powers that be here to rev up the Projection Screen down the hall.  In the meantime, I've been watching the scenes from the mall, and...
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Something to tickle your ear.

By amike on Mon, 01/19/2009 - 10:37pm |
This morning I snarked public radio.  I'd like to offer a very late listening tip from my local station, WGBH in Boston.  Eric Jackson always provides a musical tribute to Martin Luther King on his January 19th version of Eric...
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Three Cheers for Stodgy old C-Span

By amike on Mon, 01/19/2009 - 12:33pm |
It's been a long while since I ventured a post at TPM Cafe.  I suspect it was having to admit I didn't understand the new format for posting.  I've swallowed my pride and hope to have something moderatly useful to...

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