Well it is finally autumn down here in New Orleans. Unfortunately, my pumpkin rotted and I had to trash it. As the front sweeps away down here, the drama in the air is palpable. On most every front, there is a lot of heady shit going down. For instance, it appears that Halliburton was indeed [...]
Our media is so pervasive that sometimes I wonder what it would be like to go without it entirely. Even in remote Uzbekistan, I had shortwave radio and satellite TV. I am particularly interested in reading James Howard Kuntsler’s second book in the “World Made By Hand” series titled The Witch of Hebron. I long [...]
I watched a clip of Sarah Palin’s address to the tea partiers at Boston Common today and it just pushed me over the top. SP: Borrowing and spending and inventing these big new government programs with enormous price tags, it makes no sense. WD: $236B surplus in 2000… $600B deficit in 2008 SP: There is [...]
Very proud about this. A critical first step for not only future refinements of our healthcare system, but also a great achievement for the Obama administration.
The Supreme Court has just released a very important decision which regards corporate financing of political advertising. Below, I’m embedding and attaching a version of the decision which I have hilighted. Given that the actual document is very long, and would take a few hours to read, I have provided this hilighted version so that [...]
Autumn Update
Well it is finally autumn down here in New Orleans. Unfortunately, my pumpkin rotted and I had to trash it. As the front sweeps away down here, the drama in the air is palpable. On most every front, there is a lot of heady shit going down. For instance, it appears that Halliburton was indeed [...]