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An Alarming New Stimulant, Sold Legally in Many States
New stimulant drugs that people are calling “bath salts” are alarming doctors, who say they have unusually dangerous and long-lasting effects.To read the article it is the kids that are getting into trouble. The vulnerable boomers are all dead. -
The Clash of Generations
In America and in Greece, the baby boomers may not be up to fixing the problem they have caused.I blame the Xers. They put the shrub in. He bought the problems. -
Egyptian Military Moves to Cement Muscular Role in Government
Ground rules for drafting a constitution are raising fears of a broad mandate to intercede in politics.This is not new or unexpected by me. -
Law School Economics - Job Market Weakens, Tuition Rises
Despite fewer high-paying jobs, students continue to pour into law school. And the schools keep charging higher tuition and admitting more students.The Law is one place where the fight for faith might matter.There is lots of work if income is not required. The public defender's office always needs help.Talmudic debate is supposed to be great training. -
Scotland Yard and Murdoch Empire Intertwined in Hacking Case
Testimony and new evidence indicate that Scotland Yard and News International became so intertwined that they wound up sharing the goal of containing the phone-hacking investigation.The collapse continues. I hope the end result will be very different from the last fifty years. -
How the Bursting of the Consumer Bubble Continues to Hold the Economy Back
We are living through a tremendous bust. It isn’t simply a housing bust. It’s a fizzling of the great consumer bubble that was decades in the making.This article misstates the cause and the effect.It does not recognise the "vicious spiral" nature of the problem.We can have recovery tomorrow if we are willing to buy it.Lord Keynes got it right.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_economics -
Egypt’s Entrepreneurs Look Beyond the Revolution
Egypt’s revolution has sent the economy into a tailspin, but an emerging class of young entrepreneurs hopes to make the country a technology hot spot.Everybody needs money as income.The serial destruction of the library at Alexandria stays in my mind. -
E-Book Revolution Upends Columbia Publishing Course
A six-week, $6,990 crash course in a fast-changing publishing industry at Columbia attracts more eager applicants than it can accommodate.English Majors need income too. Art is not enough.Art and design are easily confused. Fashion further confuses the impression. -
Our Broken Escalator
The best antipoverty investment in the world — from New York to Nigeria — is education. So why do we keep cutting it?Education very well may have hit the same problem as established religion.A belated recognition that there is a large group who cannot distinguish fact, proven or less than proven, from Revealed Truth.Arguments about the age of the earth, evolution, climate change, what constitutes money and the existence of God have become matters of doctrine and thus not part of the public school curriculum. -
In Millburn, N.J., a Revolt Against Charter Schools
Charters, normally thought of as a way to help poor areas, are being proposed in places that have good schools.This is not a fight about educationbut rather what the state should pay for.Religious education is every child's and parent's right.The state is forbidden to pay for it.This Charter Education is a class of religious education.There must be no state funds devoted to it.
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Michele Bachmann Rose Swiftly Fighting Same-Sex Marriage
Mrs. Bachmann’s career in Minnesota offers a look at her ability to seize an issue and use it to circumvent the party establishment.Incomprehensible to me. Let them love. Marriage is a civil matter. A sane court will find a ban on same sex marriage unconstitutional. -
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Next, the Skull and Crossbones
“Next, the Skull and Crossbones - http://nyti.ms/cKJSki”Not strong enough.I already put the skull and cross bones on the sugar jar.My sister nearly emptied it in a week with the label in place.The two of them emptied the freezer of Lindt chocolate rabbits.They left the peeps. I will have to put in a supply of Cadbury Creme Eggs next spring If I can. Vengeance will be mine.
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Shadow Cities, a New iPhone Video Game - Review
Shadow Cities is another take-over-the-world game, but this time it’s not a fantasy realm: You fight for your own town or one elsewhere, using a smartphone and GPS.If you want to take over a town just do it. Don't bother with the game. -
Death and Budgets
Much of the budget mess may stem from a deep cultural antipathy toward recognizing our own mortality.David Brooks found what I think is an interesting point and built a false argument under it.Life extension is not much desired by most of the very elderly.Their children and grandchildren like their status as irresponsible.That the working poor die about 65 and the health wealthy (2%?)go on for another thirty years does not enter calculations. -
Why Is America So Religious?#comments#comments#comments
When people outside USA look at, listen to you- we are very amused with the stupidity of the right wing ignorant superstitious religious fundamentalists. We would would laugh out loud at them if they weren't so scary.The most powerful country in the world is run by god botheres who hate women, minorities, sex, poverty, ill health and the rest of the world USA produces more scientific papers in pretty much all areas of research than any other country but this is done by a small minority of people. The rest are ignorant and happy to be so. Why do they think there is any god interested in their brief insignificant lives? If Jesus and God are so wonderful and caring why are so many living in poverty? Why does the USA have a political party who couldn't give a toss about anyone but the rich.Why are women punished in the form of laws against their reproductive rights. Why do we all needs guns? the country and its religiosity makes it like Pakistan. I could go on but it makes me so angry. The USA is spending a fortune on war not peace, not health, not equality and ridiculous women like Michelle Bachmann are even considered for the presidency
Fighting words.I am not willing to debate with people who would prefer to see me dead. There are some facts not subject to debate.Religion was not established because the founders could find no consensus as to sect.Our nation has a missionary tradition starting with the first European settlements.Firm faith persists even to martyrdom.Revolutionary socialism has been seen as a competing faith from its invention.Socialism, specifically Marxism, is seen as a threat to existing institutions of religion and business and government.A major successful effort to enforce religion was begun in the early Fifties by the Rand corporation and the D.o.D. in the name of anticommunism.No effort has been made to counter that establishment. -
Getting to Crazy
Commentators seem shocked at Republican unreasonableness as a debt default looms, but it is the end result of a process that has lasted decades.Paul Krugman has been paying attention. The Nobel Committee agrees. -
David Sacks of Yammer on Fostering Dissent - Corner Office
David Sacks, the founder and chief of Yammer, says the democratic nature of a start-up should include ample room for employees to debate the direction and operation of the company.Horizontal dissent. Vertical consensus. All starts are individual efforts. There are no starts by committee. -
Freshman House Republicans Worried About Debt, And Not Re-Election
The battle over raising the federal debt limit is different this time because a new class of lawmakers has fiscal policy in its sight."... some freshmen in both chambers say they worry more about changing the ways of Washington than about getting re-elected." dumb"I came down here to get our fiscal house in order and take care of the threat to national security that we see in the federal debt." Not time.“I don’t believe, if we fail to raise the debt ceiling, that we will default.” Representative Jeff Landry, a freshman Republican.There is no mention in this recitation of the necessity of further revenue to place the treasury in a position to pay down debt. -
How Teenagers Handle the Web’s Instant Fame
Online fame is becoming just another aspect of teenage life for a generation raised on reality television and a perpetual flurry of status updates.Hollywood Squares. These kids want to play. -
The Journal Becomes Fox-ified
The Wall Street Journal interview with Rupert Murdoch might as well have been dictated by the News Corporation public relations department.I have spent the last hour and a half trying to compose a short paragraph on design, art, reputation, fashion, news, punditry, economics, engineering and catastrophic failure. It is becoming a philosophic treatise and a project for another day.Joe Nocero has burst the bubble of his reputation. His byline shines with the slime of the ruins. An apology will not suffice. He must rebuild under another identity or leave his profession entirely.
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