Talk to the hand

Obama gave a speech yesterday in Osawatomie, Kansas.  Kansas, if I recall correctly, was one of the birthplaces of the populist movement (Katiebird can fill us in).  So, the media was all aflutter yesterday that Obama was giving a populist speech.  It was even drawing comparisons between Obama and Roosevelt.  No, not Franklin D., *Teddy*. [...]

About those Republican candidates- Who gives a f&*#

The horse race coverage is in full stride now.  It’s been neck and neck for the last couple of months, along with a ridiculous number of debates.  First, one candidate is ahead, then another.  One opens a sizeable lead, only to fall back due to something he failed to keep hidden, or bad science. Let’s [...]

Monday: Research Professionals in NY, NJ, CT- pay attention

A lot of you are understandably upset that the world expects you to take a steep cut in pay and forego benefits because they don’t see how the chicken gets made, plus you belong to a reviled profession.  You’re only a step above health insurance claim processors and nuclear reactor specialists (there are family members [...]

Unappreciated Songwriters

We all have our favorites, those singer/songwriters who wrote great songs who just never hit the big time.  Til Tuesday’s Aimee Mann sorta did back in the 80′s with the hit Voices Carry.  And several of her songs percolated up and down the charts.  She also wrote many of the songs for the movie Magnolia. [...]

Tent Monsters in Melbourne

Damn, Aussies!  We have to top this: By the way, Conflucian Marsha found an article at WaPo that tends to confirm the January 17, 2012 Occupy Congress event: In the two weeks since the New York Police Department cleared New York’s Zuccotti Park of its camping protesters, the Occupy Wall Street movement has increasingly turned [...]

A simple experiment for climate change skeptics- slightly geeky

Digby linked to a post about climate change skeptics on the Republican side of the fence.  It seems that many right wing politicians were onboard with the idea that human activity was contributing to climate change but now, er, they’re not: In his first week of campaigning for president, Texas Gov. Rick Perry said that [...]

Hmmmm…

Just posted at NYCGA.net PS: OWS is looking for housing accommodations for occupiers.  If you have space and want to help, contact ows.housing@gmail.com. Also, OWS would like to help St. Paul’s and St. Andrew’s church pay their heating bills.  This church has been hosting dozens of occupiers a night since OWS was evicted from Zuccotti [...]

Saturday: Keep on the Sunny Side

“When righteousness withers away and evil rules the land, we come into being, age after age, and take visible shape, and move, a man among men, for the protection of good, thrusting back evil and setting virtue on her seat again.”  -The Bhagavad Gita recited by Phillip Glass, Lincoln Center, November 2011. Hi guys, it [...]

Friday afternoon anti-cat blogging.

Cats, one gigantic eye reddening, bronchial tube constricting antigen wrapped up in a deceptively cute fur hand warmer. And now this:

Soak the Rich

Taxin’s too good for them now. Check out The Daily Show for 12/1/2011 first segment on TARP. $16 Trillion, $7 Trillion, $23 Trillion, who knows? I can’t keep track of all of the zeros. You know what will really scare politicians and the public? When we start to use scientific notation. $7.0 x 10^12. $1.6 [...]