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Category Archives: Blog
What “Occupy Wall Street” means to me – and probably to you.
So there’s a lot of yammering out there about OWS, and what it means, or doesn’t mean, and even some opinions that OWS protestors are less grateful than a panhandler, and perhaps more immoral, too, since they are capable, presumably, … Continue reading
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I’m not saying he’s a despot, but perhaps there are common personality traits…
Observed: No comment required, really.
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Might could dust off this little gem of Molly Ivins’:
The single most common misconception about [the Texas governor] is that he has been running a large state for the past six years. Texas has what is known in political science circles as “the weak-governor system.” You may think this … Continue reading
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Treasuries: Here we go again?
Via “The Marketplace Morning Report:” JEREMY HOBSON: Global stock markets are still excited about what the Federal Reserve said yesterday afternoon. That interest rates for banks that borrow from the Fed will remain near zero percent for the next two … Continue reading
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WWJRS?
Pretty sure if John Rawls asserts a good economy should benefit this at the bottom at least as much as those at the top (latest booms haven’t), then he would also assert that working our way out of a downturn … Continue reading
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On the debt ceiling
Via NPR: Raising the debt ceiling “simply authorizes Treasury to pay the bills Congress chose to incur when it passed years worth of spending increases and tax cuts that are now law.” So Congress voted for programs and tax cuts … Continue reading
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Endings and beginnings
Today is our last full day in the house on Marblehead. I’ve lived in that home longer than any other. Tomorrow begins our new adventure. Thursday we alight in our new home. I just finished my first trilogy in years. … Continue reading
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Corporate Power
I don’t know how people can hear stories like This American Life’s Game Changer: PROLOGUE. Host Ira Glass tells the stories of two professors, each making a calculation that no one had made before. One gets acclaim. One ends up … Continue reading
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Random Observations:
Being on FBbatical leaves me more time for reading. Actual reading. Like, “His Majesty’s Dragon,” and “The Jade Throne.” I’m also enjoying reading “The Hobbit” to Emma. I think she’s enjoying it too. Finally: Affogato. That is all. No – … Continue reading
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Ecstatic
Absolutely ecstatic to find out that our possible new home will be in Mike McCaul’s district. I thought I was leaving good old CD10 behind. Also – absolutely chicken shit of the GOP to stop at just five districts in … Continue reading
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