The buyers of useless things are wiser than is commonly supposed, they by little dreams. they become children in the act of acquition. When people with money succumb to the charms of those useless little objects, they possess them with the joy of a child gathering sea shells on the beach… Read full post »

Children know that the doll isn;t real, but they treat it as if it were, to the point of crying with grief when it breaks. The art of Children is in non-realization. How blessed is that dedluded age, when life is negated by the absence of sex, and reality is negated… Read full post »

HAVE A GREAT DAY LADIES,  GOD KNOWS MOTHERS DESERVE IT

 SINCERELY, JOHN DIGASBARRO :) Read full post »

Commerical broadcasting, in fact, offers a model case of market failure in both theory and practice, although you will rarely see this point discussed in the mainstream media. But broadcasting has important public goods properties, with a potentially important yield of positive externalities; and neg… Read full post »

The United Sates has had a large negative impact on human rights in the Third World and should be regarded as a primary source of human right violations, rather than as a world leader devoted to their elimination. this is  an incomprehensible idea for mostt people and vitual  a contrad… Read full post »

Normalization of the unthinkable comes easily when money, status, power, and jobs are at stake. Companies and wokers can always be found to manufacture poison gases, napalm, or instrment of torture, and intellectuals will be dredged up tto justifytheir production and use. The rationlizations are hoar… Read full post »

My dreaming of you will be my strength, and when my sentences tell you Beauty, they will melodies of form, curves of stanzas, and the sudden splendours of immortal verses.

Let us create, O Mine Alone, an art like no other, founded on the wonder of you existing and on my… Read full post »

There's a childish instict in humanity that makes the proudest among us, if he's a man and not crazy, long--Blesed Father--for the paternal hand that would guide us, in whatever shape or form as long as it guides as, through the world's mystery and confusion, Each of us is a speck… Read full post »

It is said that tedium is a disease of the idle, or that it attaks only those who have nothing to do. But this aiment of the soul is in fact more subtle; it atacks people who are predisposed to it. and tose who work or who preten they work whch… Read full post »

The feeling that hurt most, the emotions the sting most, are those that are absurd; the longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what coud have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world's existenc… Read full post »

During Vietnam Bush fled to the Texas air National Guard, Cheney, when asked why he avoided service in Vietman, replied, ?I had other priorities," Well, so  did 12 million of us sixty years ago. Priorities that 290,000 were never able to fulfill.

So who is to blame? Us? Them? Well, we… Read full post »

Serious establishment types worry about the Fragmentation of Power. "Our political system has become dominated by special interests" said one to the Times, stars falling fromits eyes like crocodile tears. After all, our political system is--and was--the invention of those special interests. The… Read full post »

It is a commonplace that half of those qualified to vote for president do not vote; also that half the adult population never read a newspaper. No bad thing, all in all, assuming that they could read a newspaper, which is moot as our public schools are among the worst in… Read full post »

The False Statement Statute, Title 18: Section1001 provides a penalty of up to five years in prison, a fine, or both to:

Whoever, in any manner within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of Government of the united States, knowingly and willfully 1. falsifies, conceals,… Read full post »

As the financial elite like to put it--The poor are honest, the meaning is clear enough, the poor pay their debts as a matter of honor, even at great personal sacrifice and what today's neoliberal Chicago School language would call unecommon behavior. Unlike, Donaldd Trump, they are less likely to wa… Read full post »

The problem for today's financial elites is that it is not possible to inflate another bubble from today's debt levels, widespread negative equity, and still-high real estate, stock and bond prices. No amount of new capital will induce banks to provide credit to ro real estate already over-mortagaed… Read full post »

 I dislike  Ann Coulter. When she talks she thinks she knows everthing...a sure sign of an ignorant person. Her voice is like a blow horn in my ear. I find her to be totally abnoxious. Her opinions are based on shaky facts and her mannerisms are funny...She seems a bit neurotic… Read full post »

Look at the autommobile companies. Thery are now going into decline, maybe terminal decline, in the United States. They knew about wat was happening decades ago and did not prepare for it because they are interested in short term profit and market share.  They knew that huge, over pwered heavy v… Read full post »

The Federal Reserve is formally owned by the commercial banks who hold the stock in the system--not by the citizens of the United States. The seven members of the Fed's board of governors are appointed by the president and are subject to confirmation by Congress. The power over money creation is… Read full post »

In the private sector, Since Ronald Regan, the government has made it explicit that employers can use illegal measures to undermine union organizing, and it is done constantly. There have seen other changes in the international economy that affect unionization. Can this be reversed? It certainly can.… Read full post »

If only we stopped wasting it on the U.S. military.  On Sept 24, right in the middle of the fight over billions of taxpayer dollars slated to bail ou Wall Street, The House of Representatives passed 612 billion dollars on defense authorization bill for 2009 without a murmur of public protest… Read full post »

You must trying to make the Republican party happy by working in a non-partisan mode.  They will not agree with you.  Do what you need to do with or without Republican support. Read full post »

Life, liberty, and the pusuit of happines are, or should be, the fruits of democracy. But the political democracy defined by the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution hzx not been achieved because economic democracy has not been achieved. The attainment of real economic democracy is the ne… Read full post »

You know I really enjoy writing. I find it introspective. A time to be alone with my thoughts. A time to express my feeling on paper or a computer. I find it clears my mind and helps me focus. I'm  thinking about writing a poem but I don't know what.  Maybe… Read full post »

A strong economy must be bulit on a solid foundation of steadily rising wages. If  wages do not keep pace with procuction, the only way the economy can grow is through the expansion of debt, which has lead to disaster in the United States.

This whole mess could have been… Read full post »