The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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"Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but, disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort." Marshall Mcluhan
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Now What ?

Sam Smith over at Progressive Review has some thoughts on what to do now. Give the whole thing a read. He has some good ideas.

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Prosperity American Style

pros·per·i·ty  –noun, plural -ties.
1. a successful, flourishing, or thriving condition, esp. in financial respects; good fortune.
2. prosperities, prosperous circumstances.

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The American Dream

The American Dream. Here is what Wikipedia says about it.

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Technology...miraculous, convenient and boring.

Yes boring....breath-takingly so. You really do not have to do anything to use it. You do not have to know anything to use it.  Your computer, iPod, car, television, radio/stereo, microwave, cell phone...you name it. You turn it on and it works and probably will for a very long time. After which you replace it. As the sticker says on the back, No user serviceable parts inside.

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What happened to us ?

When I was around 2 years old, according to my mother, my parents had just purchased a small house in Altoona Pa.  Shortly there after a tropical system came up the coast and was threatening Long Island NY where my grandparents had a large house boat.

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10 Questions for The Tea Party

Ralph Nader posses ten questions to the Tea Party people. I wonder just how many of them can truthfully answer them. Assuming of course they can read.

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Bad Medicine

Well this is interesting but not to surprising. According to this article from AFP, it seems that health care is the reason our longevity in this country is now well below the rest of the developed world.

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Which Side are You On ?

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson - Democratic Republican

 

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Why Public Education Sucks Even More Now

I remember the first day of Kindergarten. Playing with blocks and interacting, sometimes not so well, with the other kids. First grade, not so much but 3rd though 6th fairly well.  One of my sixth grade teachers would even take us out side in the afternoon some times to play touch football. All that is gone.

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Follow the money

We are all aware of the current situation concerning China's valuation of the Yan. Being accused of keeping the value low withe respect to the dollar and euro. But they are not the only players in this currency dispute by a long shot. Japan, which has been hit hard by the economic down turn, is also trying to devalue it's currency so as to increase exports.

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What Happened to the Protest Marchers ?

I can tell you. In a previous blog I pointed out how distracted and manipulated we have become by our current technology. Insted of being out in the streets showing how incensed we are with the current employment situation. The bank bailouts and the continued war in Afghanistan, we are sitting pounding out blogs and comments to blogs and playing video games and watching all sorts of diversions.

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The Truman Show...American Style

I was thinking of this when I read another blog concerning those build it/do it yourself for the well to do shows.

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This may seem like an odd blog for the current economic situation.....

But I think it may have some baring on it. Came across this article
in the Guardian and began to think about it some.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/aug/31/why-our-jobs-getting...

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