November, 2008 archive
Bushonomics: Take Stuff Away from Students Dept. 0
My daughter worked here. Now it might go dark.
Looking for ways to save money in a tight economy, the district is giving closer scrutiny to WMPH, a 100-watt radio station at the school that first went on the air in 1969.
I guess WMPH can’t expect a blank check from Uncle Sugar. It needs maybe a few hundred bucks.
But it’s in a school. Not in a mega-bank. And nobody there wears a three-piece suit or has a private jet.
Definitely not bailout material.
Pitch a Show 3
Who wants to help me flesh out this idea for a quiz show:
H/T Karen for the inspiration. If we go national, she gets credit for creating the show.
Drinking Liberally 0
Tuesday, venue on the sidebar. That’s over there——————>
Having heard nothing from FL, I am assuming that we shall be giving the Plough and Stars one more chance.
In any event, wherever it is, I’ll be there, if the creeks don’t rise.
Stray Thought 0
Am I the only person expecting a wave of retirements from the Supremes subsequent to January 20, 2009?
I’m certain that some of the reality-based justices have been just hanging on waiting for sanity to return to the United States of America.
Up against the Wall Street; Assume the Position 0
Robert Reich on the CitiBank thingee:
(snip)
Meanwhile, more than a million workers in the automobile industry, along with six million homeowners in danger of losing their homes, and a millions of Americans who depend on small businesses and retailers for paychecks, are getting nothing at all.
A song, just as much for these times as for those:
Bonddad Looks at the Bottom Line 0
Conclusion: We’re not there yet.
Petitioning the Lord with Prayer 0
Down the hall and to the Left, at Brendan’s.
Resumes 0
This gnashing of teeth on the part of some folks because some of Mr. Obama’s choices worked in the Clinton administration is foolish and stupid.
Not too many persons from the Carter administration are still around. And, frankly, they didn’t do a very good job of administering stuff.
Addendum, Several Podcasts Later:
As I just heard someone say on Marconi’s Magic Box, “Change doesn’t require new faces. It requires doing new things.”
Socialists 0
The Republicans want to buy another bank.
No lick-spittle running dog capitalists here folks.
Move along now. Nothing to see.
(I think it’s called fee enterprise, folks. We pay the fee. They get the enterprise.)
Afterthought:
However necessary this sort of stuff may be in the big picture, it is truly galling to see incompetence, venality, and unconscionable greed excused and rewarded.
Truth and Reconciliation 0
Balloon Juice:
Truth.
No reconciliation.
Meaning 0
‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone,’ it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.’
(Quotation from Through the Looking Glass.)
“Want Fries with That?” 4
Fear of loss is one reason my cell phone pretty much never leaves my person when I’m awake, but, I must say, nothing in my phone is very interesting:
Phillip Sherman says he accidentally left his phone, with the photos, at a McDonald’s in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
He says staff promised to secure the phone until he could retrieve it.
What Is Patriotism? 0
I don’t often visit the Great Orange Satan. I find that it, like New York, is so big as to be overwhelming.
But, this morning, I stumbled across a marvelous meditation on what constitutes American patriotism.
Not the “my-country-right-or-wrong and to-hell-with-you” jingoism of the xenophobes, bigots, and warmongers, but rather the patriotism of those who love the United States and what it can someday be.
Here’s a nugget. I would urge you to read the whole thing:
Oh, My Goodness 0
I just heard punditress on NPR say of Mr. Obama, “We don’t know what his priorities will be.”
All I can say in reaction is where the hell has she been the last two years?
Apparently, not paying attention is a requisite for getting a gig on the radio.
Furrfu!
