Monthly Archives: March 2009

Ageism Richard Wolff Style

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From an otherwise OK Richardl Wolff Vanity Fair piece on Rush Limbaugh, the following paragraph: It is, rather, a crueler demographic point. The dirty little secret of conservative talk radio is that the average age of listeners is 67 and … Continue reading →

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Huffington Post Buries Another

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BURIED POST

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Is Ousting Bank Heads Next?

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President Obama is trying to dismantle faux capitalism and restore something like the inventive society that folk like Thorstein Veblen wanted to see, a society of productive, engineer-respecting non-conspicuous consumers. Remember that. These are not takeovers. They are makeovers. Huzzah! … Continue reading →

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Famine is the result of many burdens

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The TAO TE-CHING of Lao-Tse based on the translation of James Legge. Adapted and Abridged Chapter 75 Famine is the result of many burdens Imposed by those who rule Excessive acts of governing induce Excessive difficulty People make light of … Continue reading →

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Obama’s Ingenuity Card

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Barack Obama put all the pieces of the new economy together two years ago but it is/was obviously a mite too radical to get the John McCain’s of the world aboard. He knew, for example, that, by making a contemporary … Continue reading →

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