Understanding the Liberal/Progressive Lexicon: Part II –Joe Bakanovic, July , 2012 This is Part II of a series on the importance of role language plays in Progressive thinking and methodology. It is part of a larger series I am starting tracing the history of the American Progressive movement in general. You can find Part…
It has been a mentally twisted Saturday. I could take a Rorschach Test and see unicorns in every inkblot. Hey, I could be on Obama’s economic policy team! Saw this and for some reason, it made me think of the late, great Warren Zevon. GORILLA IN PRAGUE ZOO ACCIDENTALLY HANGS HIMSELF PRAGUE (AP) — A gorilla has…
Fantastic story and fantastic page on FaceBook – The Blacksphere – go check them out. Every now and then, in the middle of the constant barrage of crap that’s just pissing us all off these days, we come across a story, a feat, an event that just makes us stop in our tracks. This was…
Here are two stories: Jim Walton to Step Down as Chief of CNN Time Warner said on Friday that Jim Walton, the embattled president of CNN Worldwide, would hand the news giant over to a new chief at the end of the year. Breaking: CNN’s Jim Walton Resigns “CNN needs new thinking,” Walton wrote…
Understanding the Liberal/Progressive Lexicon: Part I –Joe Bakanovic, July , 2012 As entertaining as it may be, I feel like it’s time to leave the partisan wrestling match behind for a little while and do some real work on helping others understand what is happening in our society today; why it is happening; and…
Here’s the Story: ‘How Many Murdered Children Does It Take’: Democratic Candidate Uses Aurora Shooting to Fundraise And now, there’s Dill using a national tragedy as a fundraising gimmick. US News and World Report reports: Whispers was forwarded a strongly-worded E-mail Thursday fromCynthia Dill, the notoriously outspoken Democratic candidate in Maine’s Senate race to replace…
Three steps: Run. Hide. Fight. Be quiet and calm citizen – as you live in fear – but be assured the authorities are protecting you. Just know that by the time you get to step 3, you are probably mortally wounded or dead anyway – but don’t worry, after 15 years of appeals are exhausted, your killer…
The US is blamed for triggering the global downturn due to the mortgage bubble. What will happen when China’s bubble, estimated to be larger than that of the US, bursts? I saw empty cities when I worked in China from 2003 to 2007 and even I’m shocked by this: A large part of China’s “prosperity”…
Mitt Romney was treated to this in The Sun: Mitt the Twit Wannabe US President Romney in Games insult, but David Cameron insists: We’ll show you WANNABE president Mitt Romney infuriated Prime Minister David Cameron yesterday by making a string of embarrassing blunders. The US election hopeful, on a visit to London, questioned whether the…
Sherlyn Chopra isn’t a well known name in America but this Bollywood star will soon be – she is set to become the first Indian to grace the pages of that American icon, Playboy. From the Daily Mail: Sherlyn Chopra, 28, will star in the magazine’s November issue after she wrote to Playboy asking to…
