tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post6348051221209999778..comments2024-01-02T22:01:12.976+00:00Comments on Avedon's Sideshow: A scandal every minuteAvedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04702100335744054401noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-90924474209451809472013-02-26T04:24:17.769+00:002013-02-26T04:24:17.769+00:00Here's another great link: Alan Blinder on the...Here's another great link: <a href="http://www.booktv.org/Watch/14246/quotAfter+the+Music+Stopped+The+Financial+Crisis+the+Response+and+the+Work+Aheadquot.aspx" rel="nofollow">Alan Blinder</a> on the financial crisis. The Q&A is especially good, especially a challenge by a foreigner, probably a Brit, on the way in which the crisis could have been avoided. Charleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04761044906837521471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-49366295090025362102013-02-25T13:34:44.969+00:002013-02-25T13:34:44.969+00:00The wonderfully elastic English language.<a href="http://welcomebacktopottersville.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-wonderfully-elastic-english-language.html" rel="nofollow">The wonderfully elastic English language</a>.jurassicporkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01673461210301442978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-71893732436191571522013-02-25T08:06:34.221+00:002013-02-25T08:06:34.221+00:00A little more detail: Australopithecus afarensis,...A little more detail: Australopithecus afarensis, popularly known as Lucy.<br /><br /><i>Au. afarensis had mainly a plant-based diet, including leaves, fruit, seeds, roots, nuts, and insects… and probably the occasional small vertebrates, like lizards.</i><br />ksixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15406854618914127269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-70823671439707165862013-02-25T05:08:16.086+00:002013-02-25T05:08:16.086+00:00I tried to send this comment to the author of the ...I tried to send this comment to the author of the USA Today article about the Pew Poll:<br /><br />"I am really curious as to why and by who the four issues chosen were selected as opposed to other obvious possibilities such as jobs/the economy and Social-Security/Medicare. The four chosen all have their place, but considering the amount of media and pundit attention given to each, it almost comes across as a push poll for focusing on the deficit."<br /><br />I say "tried" because I hit the send button twice but could detect no sign that anything happened.Lotushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16774266443353774752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-43575689296270229672013-02-25T02:39:52.733+00:002013-02-25T02:39:52.733+00:00Anyone caught this film based on Chris Hedge's...Anyone caught this film based on Chris Hedge's Death of the Liberal Class?<br /><br />http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/watch_obey_film_based_on_chris_hedges_death_of_the_liberal_class_20130221/<br /><br />Per Ian's post, this is something Paul Craig Roberts wrote last year:<br /><br />The answer is that Washington’s empire extracts resources from the American people for the benefit of the few powerful interest groups that rule America … The US Constitution has been extracted in the interests of the Security State, and Americans’ incomes have been redirected to the pockets of the 1 percent. ...<br /><br />In the New Empire success at war no longer matters. The extraction takes place by being at war. Huge sums of American taxpayers’ money have flowed into the American armaments industries and huge amounts of power into Homeland Security. The American empire works by stripping Americans of wealth and liberty.This is why the wars cannot end, or if one does end another starts … This truth doesn’t mean that the objects of American military aggression have escaped without cost. Large numbers of Muslims have been bombed and murdered and their economies and infrastructure ruined, but not in order to extract resources from them.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-5565080515305108622013-02-25T01:51:40.744+00:002013-02-25T01:51:40.744+00:00FAIR on The NYT's Problem With Leftist Preside...<i>FAIR on The NYT's Problem With Leftist Presidents</i><br /><br />Great link.<br />~ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©https://www.blogger.com/profile/06252371815131259831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-87692227362061556792013-02-24T19:31:33.804+00:002013-02-24T19:31:33.804+00:00Here's one everyone should love: My strange gr...Here's one everyone should love: <a href="http://vimeo.com/57395065" rel="nofollow">My strange grandfather</a>Charleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04761044906837521471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-28603657386377002702013-02-24T18:43:07.770+00:002013-02-24T18:43:07.770+00:00It isn't necessarily the strong who survive.
...It isn't necessarily the strong who survive.<br /><br />Think afrensis. A.afrensis, omnivore.<br /><br />No fear...Ten Bearshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06594307610015584119noreply@blogger.com