Gunny responsed to a comment I made on The Daily Beast. I gave it some thought and want to respond to him here. This is what he said: .”….polarization weakens this country…” “I not sure that’s what’s going on – that is to say I don’t think the polarization is the cause of weakness- I [...]
Some rather unshocking articles in the Projo this morning (or the Urinal as my favorite local indie wags call it) RI Experiences Historic Decline in Population RI One of 2 States to Lose Population from 2011 – 2012 (The other is Vermont) Income is Leaving RI Faster Than the People Are Interesting to see if [...]
Not that it’ll do much good in the long run, but at least people are realising what a bunch of crooks these big corporations really are…Starbucks I imagine will quickly feel the pinch after calls for boycotts. There certainly isn’t much sympathy for any of them. And we have just heard that just as they [...]
There are some real reporters working for the HuffingtonPost site these days. Here is a link to a long, and very well written piece up today, Monday about the years-long chain of decisions by private developers, their customers, and local, state and federal officials, that set up the people of New York and New Jersey [...]
Okay, because I love gunnison (and most of the rest of you), if in a detached, wholesome, online kind of way, I actually subjected myself to an entire Thomas Friedman NYT piece for the first time in years—rather than just ramble on about polyamory or Guy Debord or whatever. Friedman starts: I JUST arrived in [...]
This is a real short clip, but really, watch Mitt’s face as Ryan talks about eliminating tax shelters available to the wealthy that are not available to everyone else. What we’re saying is, take away the tax shelters that are uniquely enjoyed by people in the top tax brackets so they can’t shelter as much [...]
One of Barack Obama’s college professors, one Roberto Unger, has made a smallish splash in the news recently by declaring his conviction that Obama’s defeat in November is essential. His reasoning is nothing like that of the GOP mouthpieces, if the word “reasoning” is applicable in a context like that, indeed it’s quite the reverse. [...]
… which is an old New Mexico dicho (saying) meaning, colloquially, “they’re crazy”. Literally it means “crickets in their heads”. So where in the hell is this going? Patience, grasshopper (also a grillo)—more will be revealed. We’ve talked Greece to death, really, but there are a few things that need to be said going forward. [...]
Over the years I’ve heard Americans discuss all kinds of things going on in all parts of the world—various parts of Asia, China certainly, Europe, Mexico, you name it. One place I don’t recall anyone talking about much, aside from avid anglers and hunters, is Canada. I must presume they know that a rather large [...]
Still busy with the tail end of brush clearing around here. The dry conditions have impelled many folks hereabouts to doing much the same thing, and I noticed yesterday the Highway Department (or some state agency) has put a number of those big flashing road signs at strategic points along the highway declaring “High Fire [...]