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My patience with Cheney is at an end. Jon Stewart once again caps the sentiment nicely.
Visiting Family But No Family Visiting
Don’t know why children aren’t allowed to visit sick adults. It bothers me that a dear aunt couldn’t see and touch her greatnephew. What’s the health risk to a 11 month old or to her?
Mobile Blogging from here.
Testing Blog IT
You should see this on Facebook and Twitter and my blog.
My Pastor with the Mayor
Left to right, Msgr. John McIntryre, Mayor Michael Nutter, Father Chris Walsh, Father Kevin Gallagher, Msgr. Thomas Flanigan and Auxiliary Bishop Joseph P. McFadden enjoy the parade
(Via The Catholic Standard and Times.)
My pastor, Fr. Walsh, getting his Irish on with the cap and sash!
The Death Penalty – Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Death Penalty – Ta-Nehisi Coates:
” This is all a long way of saying that some conservatives don’t hate big government, they simply want big government to work strictly for them.”
(Via Ta-Nehisi Coates.)
A better way to say it might be, “Big Government to conservatives is any part of government that doesn’t work strictly for them.” How else do you justify a yearly, as in ongoing, DoD budget of $800B while decrying a temporary stimulus package of the same size? Utter discredit.
iLojack
iPhone 3.0 to offer MobileMe users “Find My iPhone†feature — RoughlyDrafted Magazine:
“When activated, the phone opens an alert that says, ‘this enables the ’Find my iPhone‘ service on your MobileMe account at me.com.’ It would appear that the service obtains the iPhone’s location and makes it available to the MobileMe user on request if the unit is lost or stolen.”
(Via RoughlyDrafted Magazine.)
Awesome sauce.
Even if I Stutter, I Will Still Come Off
King Asiatic Nobody’s Equal.
The Crisis of Credit Visualized
The Crisis of Credit Visualized on Vimeo:
The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.The Short and Simple Story of the Credit Crisis.
Crisisofcredit.com
The goal of giving form to a complex situation like the credit crisis is to quickly supply the essence of the situation to those unfamiliar and uninitiated. This project was completed as part of my thesis work in the Media Design Program, a graduate studio at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.
For more on my broader thesis work exploring the use of new media to make sense of a increasingly complex world, visit jonathanjarvis.com.
Support the project and buy a T-Shirt! cafepress.com/crisisofcredit
© Copyright 2009 Jonathan Jarvis
(Via Vimeo.)
Credit crisis in short animated film. Lays it all out quite nicely.
The Forgetful Man
“Shlaes’s actual critique of the New Deal [in The Forgotten Man] is not easy to pin down. Defining what she believes depends on whether you are reading the book itself or her incessant stream of spin-off journalism. In one article she adopted the classic right-wing line taken up by Andrew Mellon, Hoover’s treasury secretary: ‘Mellon–unlike the Roosevelt administration–understood that American growth would return if you left the economy alone to right itself.’ This is the conclusion that most excites Shlaes’s conservative admirers. And in keeping with this argument, Shlaes, a committed supply-sider, scolds Roosevelt for raising taxes on the rich, which discouraged them from taking risks. She fails to explain how the economy managed to recover after the outbreak of World War II, which saw even higher taxes on the rich, or in the postwar period, when they remained high. [emphasis mine]
Moreover, the classic right-wing critique fails to explain how the economy recovered at all. In one of his columns touting Shlaes, George Will observed that ‘the war, not the New Deal, defeated the Depression.’ Why, though, did the war defeat the Depression? Because it entailed a massive expansion of government spending. The Republicans who have been endlessly making the anti-stimulus case seem not to realize that, if you believe that the war ended the Depression, then you are a Keynesian.
(Via The New Republic.)
Once again conservative ideology reveals it’s soft-think. It can’t handle even simple facts. If facts are about reality, I’d be all too happy to forget conservatism.
Road to the Riches
Highway robbery? Texas police seize black motorists’ cash, cars — chicagotribune.com:
“TENAHA, Texas— You can drive into this dusty fleck of a town near the Texas-Louisiana border if you’re African-American, but you might not be able to drive out of it—at least not with your car, your cash, your jewelry or other valuables.
That’s because the police here allegedly have found a way to strip motorists, many of them black, of their property without ever charging them with a crime. Instead they offer out-of-towners a grim choice: voluntarily sign over your belongings to the town, or face felony charges of money laundering or other serious crimes.”
(Via Chicago Tribure.)
Institutional racism at it’s startingly most blatant. This in the age of Obama is a good cautionary tale. You are responsible for Change, for Hope, not the President.