From Curmudgeon Eclectica
There are ever fewer reasons not to characterize right wing conservatism as a subclinical form of antisocial personality disorder characterized by a marked lack of empathy. Conservatism is a disease and a parasite on the body politic.
Did Derivatives Drive the Meltdown?
But explanations of our current predicament that focus on “feckless bankers, financial deregulation, crony capitalism, and the like” overlook our far more fundamental problem, our increasingly unequal distribution of income “across individuals and social classes.”
Why do the Beltway Boys have a weekly television show when they clearly lack a coherent world view?
Because “Big Media” is able to “define the sphere of legitimate debate”
The bulls eye above represents:
1.) The sphere of legitimate debate is the one journalists recognize as real, normal, everyday terrain
2. ) The sphere of consensus is the “motherhood and apple pie” of politics, the things on which everyone is thought to agree
3.) In the sphere of deviance we find “political actors and views which journalists and the political mainstream of society reject as unworthy of being heard.
The article from PressThink - Audience Atomization Overcome: Why the Internet Weakens the Authority of the Press
Found at Prairie Weather
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The Most Beautiful Equation in the World
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Explanation (if you need one) is at The Math Less Traveled
From L’Hôte: what if the choice is unions or goverment?
Chaos Theory Simplified – “an extremely elegant example of a chaotic system” From Scientific American
I’ve had these snowshoes about 35 years now. They were made by Walter E. York of The Caratunk Snowshoe Company in Caratunk Maine. Mr. York made them up until the 1980s. The style is called modified bear paw. There are light weight and durable and certainly better looking then modern styles.
Here is a close-up of the harness
Fellow New Englander Chris Hedges writes The Best and Brightest have led American off a Cliff. From the article:
The people I loved most, my working-class family in Maine, did not go to college. They were plumbers, post office clerks and mill workers. Most of the men were military veterans. They lived frugal and hard lives.
From Interfluidty – Expenditure vs investment — thinking clearly
