economy | economy
Jan.27.2012
We're in serious trouble here in the United States--EXTREMELY serious trouble. I hear Obama this, George W that, and "for the last three years" daily when I tune into one of the "Who said something stupid today" news shows on Fox, CNN, and MSNBC (CSPAN not so much).
I've re-released my...
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Jan.12.2012
This commentary is rated MA for mature audiences. It contains some foul language, although honestly, only so much as is needed to get the damned point across. Parental discretion is advised…
Attention to all self-proclaimed liberals and progressives.
I would like to properly introduce you to a...
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Jan.09.2012
This happens close to home (well ... a comfortable hour's walk) in downtown Halifax. It is not a startling piece of news in today's economic climate. However, it is a bookstore which I use and where (indeed) I can find my own books. This is an interesting and informative article. The videos give an...
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Jan.07.2012
According to a recent Gallup poll the most important problems in the world were: the economy, primarily unemployment, followed by dissatisfaction with government, healthcare, family decline, illegal aliens, education, fear of war, poverty, Social Security, welfare, terrorism and a host of others....
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Dec.26.2011
Another person out there trying again, of measurably more fame and public impact than me, is Stephen Glass.
Glass was a journalist who made many things up. He wrote for the The New Republic but was also published in numerous other magazines, like Rolling Stone Magazine, back in the late 90s...
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Dec.21.2011
End of the year magazine issues tend to be retrospectives, or the content seems more strained than usual. The January 2012 issue of Harper's Magazine seem to fall in line with the latter. However, there's one curious juxtaposition:
A piece of first person reportage by Cecelia Balli, "Calderon's...
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Dec.19.2011
So a NY Times article on texting mentions that people in hospitals are texting. Not patients awaiting a procedure but doctors, nurses, and patients while doing a procedure.
I don't understand the texting fad. Is it a fad or is it here to stay? While with my neice in September, a 30-year old...
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Nov.07.2011
Have you been spending time in an Occupy encampment lately? It’s getting chilly out there. I’m making a big pot of stuffed cabbage, more or less my grandmother’s recipe. Come on over for a bowlful. It’ll warm you right up. Let’s schmooze a bit while it’s cooking.
Class warfare: the locution of...
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Oct.26.2011
I took part in an arts conference on Monday (more about that in my next blog). In a discussion I moderated on art and civic engagement, speakers had a lot to say about pursuing social change by engaging people in community life and democratic discourse via music, media, dance, drama, and other...
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Oct.19.2011
The Occupy Wall Street Protest is a flash-mob that camps out. It’s as if the neighbours come round for a cup of coffee and end up sleeping over.
The Occupy demonstrations are flash-mobs inspired by fear, and fear is not short-lived, fear is stubborn.
It’s actually rather odd that, in order to...
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