A Creeping Concern
31 January 2010As I have watched the first year of the current administration unfold, I have increasingly wondered if all of this, at a thirty thousand foot level, is a result of a simple GOP plan first outed long ago, and spoken of frequently during the Bush Era. Called “starve the beast,” it is a much-discussed strategy [...]
Elucidations on Bush / Cheney Misdirection
12 July 2009The following was written in reply to Richard, under the heading below on the Most Invisible Ex President. It had enough content to merit, I think, putting it up top as a post of its own. You can follow Richard’s questions and comments in his entry at the end of the other posting.
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Hi Richard,
Here are [...]
The Good News, and the Bad News
16 June 2009The good news is so obvious that half of the stories in the media are completely missing the point:
We have likely avoided global economic oblivion. The Republicans, who are largely at fault for this horrible experience, have been incessantly whining about spending, self-dealing, and anything else their focus groups can come up with: how truly [...]
A Few Good Rules
21 January 2009After a year or more of running this blog without rules, we seemed to have recently crossed the Rubicon: in moving from our internal member conversations to a more open, perhaps wild frontier on the Net, the dialogue has gone from that of mutual respect and intellectual exchange to anonymous insult and emotional attack.
So, as [...]
The Bush Team: Time for Jail?
18 January 2009I won’t waste any time on debating whether the President, VP Cheney, Defense Chief Rumsfeld, “Scooter,” or any of another five to ten (mostly Neocon) officials in the Bush administration are guilty of crimes. They are.
Rather, I think it is more interesting to continue the very serious conversation about which exact crimes they have committed, [...]
It Isn’t What We Are Learning – It’s Who Is Learning
4 January 2009There is a lot of important conversation going on currently about what we have all learned about regulation in the financial industry, and what happens with a lack of it, what we could have done differently, why we (and the regulators) ignored often-prescient warnings, and so on.
This all presupposes that learning is, in some way, [...]
A Few Last Desperate Consistently Self-Oriented Moves
5 December 2008Many people have been forced into having their own verbal and intellectual lenses for explaining the behaviors of George Bush.
He can’t just be insane, so — what is it? What explains his behavior?
Today, as Congress fished around for money to save the U.S. auto companies, in a pickle because they had not invested earlier in [...]
President Abbas
29 April 2008A funny thing happened on the way to George Bush bringing democracy to the Middle East: Palestine had a real election. In that election, which unlike Bush’s own national election in the U.S., actually passed muster with the world’s election watchdog, the Carter Foundation, the current “president of Palestine” lost.
How could that be? Just yesterday, [...]