December 2011
17 posts
“It is a pity that Wall Street with its ability to control all the wealth of the...”
– - Sen. Harry S. Truman, delivered on the Senate floor, Dec. 1937
Yeah, Harry was a hipster…he was down with #OWS before it was cool.
The Political Notebook: Can we all stop acting... →
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I mean, really? Talking about the possible dangers of the political rise of the Muslim Brotherhood or the Salafists or the Ennahda Party (particularly when it comes to social freedoms) don’t have to involve saying things like “Are the sceptics who said that Arabs could not handle democracy—and…
Vanity Fair: Blackwater Has Third Identity Crisis... →
Security contractor Blackwater has not actually been named Blackwater for some time: in 2009, the company changed its name to Xe (pronounced “Oh, you mean Blackwater?”) in an effort to rehabilitate its atrocious public image. However, The Wall Street Journal reports, starting now Xe would…
Our world will be forever different →
This will change everything about our world, society, & culture. It is moving faster than Moore’s law and isn’t something from a sci-fi novel that will never really happen. It is happening and it isn’t something that is down the road…it is here now.
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The process is more and more closed every year →
“Far more defeating were the external expectations of a modern presidential campaign, by which his always fell short. Most early debates invited only candidates who had at least 2 percent support in five national polls, but sometimes Roemer wasn’t even included in five. Another debate required candidates to have raised $500,000 in the past 90 days, and he had managed only half of that. The...
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“It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do...”
– Tyler Durden
I Want My Grade Back or How I Learned to Stop... →
I failed a test on The Diary of Anne Frank in High School because I refused to acknowledge to that the “symbolism” was anything more than just a young girl putting her thoughts on paper…wish I had know about this back then.
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The First Post
Writing the first post on a new blog is tough. I mean really tough. What do I write about? Do I start out trying to be witty? Inspirational? Snarky? How much does the first post influence what is to come? How much does it set the tone?
I wish I knew. I’m sure if I poked around long enough on Google I could find some experts or professional bloggers that would espouse the importance of the...