NOVEMBER 2, 2009 11:30PM

Lieberstrami

My cohort, Deb,  over at Turn Left wrote this about Joe Lieberman:
 
 
Not to be outdone, I wrote this:
 

Until not long ago, as I watched the Lieberman antics, I was locked into the pseudo-Christian dil

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OCTOBER 5, 2009 9:45AM

Relative Vaues

Yesterday, on ABC's "This Week", hosted by George Stepenopulence, the first guest was the venerable, beady- eyed, ex fed-chairholder/warmer, Alan Greenspan. (NOTE: he is not in anyway green, but has spanned much too much time in the pubic domain). Each time George pressed Mr. Not-Green-Spanned-to… Read full post »
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SEPTEMBER 29, 2009 9:50AM

Not News

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2009 2:22PM

Some Wisdom From Bageant

Nice to know I am not alone in my musings. Noam Chomsky has been telling us, for years, that we have a one party system, called the "corporatocracy" and nobody listens. If , like myself and many others I know, are on SS, SSDI and/or Medicare, this should… Read full post »
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SEPTEMBER 18, 2009 10:28AM

Got up on the left side of the bed

Deb Dellapiana wrote an opinion piece at a blog site we shrae (sort of) this morning( you can read it here: http://turn-left.hypocrisy.com/2009/09/18/the-bait-and-switch-presidency/#comment-455), and I had to say a few words (Oh no! Not again!). Here goes:
 

You have correctly identified the

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2009 11:26AM

Proselytizing By Accident

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-09-05/inside-sarahs-church/?cid=bsa:mostpopular1

 

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2009 9:46PM

Responding to a Naderite

Thanks, Clint. While the "right" may be the worst abusers in this category, methinks the left is often just as guilty.  And I think the "langage as symbols" you are referring to is really more a matter as "language as a weapon"...however...
 
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SEPTEMBER 1, 2009 9:11AM

Send more!

Yesterday I blogged the report (from Politico), that the famed conservative columnist and pundit George Will had said that it is time to pull troops back from a seemingly un-winnable situation in Afghani-whats-its-place. The narrative noted that this surprising recommendation… Read full post »
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AUGUST 10, 2009 10:32AM

Observations

Several months ago, when the oil companies, the Wall St. oil speculators and the gasoline distributors drove the pump price of gasoline up to $4.00/gal. or more, and then, when the economy tanked, and they wisely ( and cleverly) and magically managed to drop it down to about… Read full post »
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AUGUST 7, 2009 9:26AM

Cash For Clunkers

This program spends a small amount of taxpayer money (relative to the size of bail-out packages) on a paliative program which puts perfectly serviceable used cars, that "regular"people could buy and drive,  into junk heaps, money in the pockets of new car dealers ( who are too many… Read full post »
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JULY 30, 2009 11:18PM

Potpourri...Say what?

While waiting to watch The Daily Show yesterday, I watched this  clip on The Comedy Channel:

A youngish, neatly dressed woman appears on stage and announces that she has “Roving Kidney Disease”. Since she does not know what it is, or what to do about it, she has asked her… Read full post »

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JULY 29, 2009 4:41PM

RushBeckDobbsLimbaughism

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JULY 26, 2009 10:06AM

The Old New is the New Old.

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JULY 4, 2009 5:11PM

Curious

This past week, my friend and co-conspirator in writing about political and cultural issues, Deb, put up a new post on a web site that she and I a few others contribute to. She was motivated, in this instance,  by the dismissal of Lt. Dan Choi, for openly defying the terms… Read full post »

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JULY 3, 2009 9:34PM

July Fourth Special

Here are some holiday suggestions for ways to utilize the summer’s  unfolding events and  organize your priorities, so far. As you set off your firecrackers and bottle rockets, and 500 G military artillery shells (like we do here in Texas), and grill your steaks and hot dogs, and munc… Read full post »

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JUNE 23, 2009 5:01PM

Follow up

A few days ago I wrote a blog entry called "Inharmonious". In it, I sent along some remarks from Mssrs. Krugman and Reich about the shortcomings of  Obama's response to the financial debacle we have on-going. I said that I wondered what Galbraith and Grieder might have to… Read full post »
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JUNE 23, 2009 9:55AM

Reverse Psychosis

A few months ago, a new feature,  “Schott’s Vocabulary”, appeared as daily insertion on the Op-Ed page of the NYT.  You can also access it directly on the web , here: http://www.benschott.com/.  As a “word guy”, I have been getting  a lot of enjoyment… Read full post »

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JUNE 20, 2009 8:04AM

Acronymns

Due in large part (I understand) to the nearly illiterate communications skills of Paris Hilton (someone called her "Perez" Hilton in an email to me the other day...as in Simon Perez? Scarey), many young people, on the MySpace, Facebook and Twitter sites call many people their "BFF"s. This… Read full post »
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JUNE 19, 2009 10:01AM

Inharmonious

Both Paul Krugman (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/19/opinion/19krugman.html?_r=1&th&emc=th)

this morning in the NYT, and Robert Reich (http://robertreich.blogspot.com/)

in his blog posted on 6/18, indicate that they are not happy with the compromise and short-sighted nature of Obama’s… Read full post »

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JUNE 11, 2009 1:24PM

The Man Who Isn't Here

There may well be some terrible and urgent truth to the saying, “The more things change, the more they stay the same”.  The word ‘change” stings harshly this morning. The President is not here: he is in France, or Cairo or Buchenwald or Canton or Green Bay. Or on a date… Read full post »

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JUNE 9, 2009 8:56AM

Nobody Likes the Truth

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090608_hold_your_applause/

 

Many people do not like Mr. Hedges, because of his stance on religion, but when he tells the truth and explains ugliness and indefensible cruelty for what it is, you must give him some space. I concur with this, almost without… Read full post »

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JUNE 8, 2009 2:06PM

A Metaphor?

Air France flight 447 is a metapohor for the U.S. economy. It has crashed in a huge sea of debt and we have sent out an armada of financial rescue vehicles. Sadly, Capt. Geithner and First Officer Summers are in charge, and all they have managed to do… Read full post »

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JUNE 6, 2009 4:25PM

The New American Mythology: Boy. Are We In Trouble

The citizens of the United States, in this, the first part of the 21rst century, are living in a land of make-believe. We are making our way through every day, pretending to have our lives dependent upon, and grounded in, two myth-guided (sorry), retrograde and faulty suppositions. The first one revo… Read full post »

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MAY 31, 2009 3:07PM

No Longer News or General

I just heard another story on NPR about the “death of newspapers”.  This particular story was about the small publications and electronic postings and blogs that have rushed in to fill the “void” created when the Seattle Intelligencer folded recently. (Note to NPR: There… Read full post »

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MAY 28, 2009 9:30AM

This Horse Is Not Dead Yet

I have been chided and excoriated lately for chiming in  and attempting to further the notion of many cultural observers that there is a rising tide of "anti-intellectualism" in our society.
 
Anyone who doubts this reality should listen carefully to the tidal wave of r… Read full post »
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