Yep it’s a lie. After the summer of discontent, and the President’s speech last night (with its heckling) I’ve written up my thoughts on the current health care debate.
I wish we were talking about the issues that would actually solve the problem and stop all the lies. But then again, it’s not really about health care, right?
Agenda for America: After Quantanamo lets make Jet travel safe again.
The LAT reported that 208 passengers have been convicted of felony terrorist activity under the Patriot Act over the past few years, often for raising their voices to Flight Attendants.
I’m surprised the number isn’t in the thousands...
It’s human nature; we find the quickest way to apply a map to a simple fact and extrapolate from it grand conclusions. The biologists say it’s evolutionary. It’s hard wired in us, they say, and it’s part of what makes us greater than the apes.
“We are in an ontological pickle” a friend told me recently, and she was right.
To deal with this I suggest a “Rule of Three”, but be careful that you don't eat the pickle along the way...
Buzzing around the web has been the story that Google CEO Eric Schmidt called the internet a “Cesspool”. Cnet reported that “the Internet is a "cesspool" where false information thrives...Schmidt gave the magazine publishers hope for their future. Brands, he said, are the way to rise above the cesspool”
Really? Old media is the answer?
Looking to the mainstream media brands as a model of fair and accurate reporting is like looking for a pacifist at a prizefight. Here's why...
After having someone's phone number ported to our iPhone, and spending the night getting it fixed, we think about the homogeneity of the rebellious Apple store employee
A Post-postmodernist with Objectivist leanings, fighting to catch up with his art after serving time as a capitalist oppressor of the people.
Doug Barone retired from corporate life after 20 years in the finance industry and is fooling everyone into thinking he is a writer. Having been a corporate strategist, finance executive, and IT executive he has found almost nothing of use to him from those years except the zany people and crazy stories that no one in their right mind could ever dream up. He uses these real life experiences in his work and this separates him from other writers who never really worked a day in their lives either.
His work, his prose fiction, is focused on power, its entanglement with emotional fulfillment, the impact of institutional concentrations of authority, and our struggles in the space created between. It deals with the ontological-deontological tension of existence in a post-postmodern world, where ideas have re-emerged as vastly powerful things even in the simple acts of everyday life. Sometimes his work allows just a bit of the mystical to cross over into reality, breaking the barriers of perception, heightening a sense of the possible.
Since this is all antithetical to the held narrative of our time, he fully expects to be pilloried by the academic left as well as the religious right, and looks forward to every lashing.
Justus Rosenberg on rescuing victims of the Nazis
Justus Rosenberg was the youngest member of the team led by Varian Fry that rescued some of Europe's most famous artists, writers, and intellectuals who had taken refuge in France prior to the Nazi occupation. I studied linguistics under Dr. Rosenberg at The New School in the Fall of 2008. This video tell his story from the 1940's, and in the post I tell a little story shared between us that fall.