Personal Income Growth

Posted at September 21, 2007 10:36 AM in response to The Case of Colorado

What I noticed through the years was that the "experts" being consulted/cited with respect to various issues -- well, many of them didn't possess the qualifications to be consulted about the issues under consideration.

In one instance, an advertising exec seemed to be functioning as an oracle for environmental issues. Back in 2001, a search for one's curriculum vitae on the internet would still turn results. I can't remember his name, but apparently this ad exec wrote literature that was selected to be used in public school classrooms that refuted the scientific assertion of global warming. I saw nothing in his CV that made him a candidate for consultation regarding the environment.

The other "experts" being consulted to challenge global warming assertions similarly lacked appropriate backgrounds to be used as enviro-eco oracles.

Mixing and mis-matching skill sets to positions appears to be the method of choice by the Bush administration -- I won't call them "conservatives" because I no longer know what that term means.

Posted at September 21, 2007 10:24 AM in response to The Patterns Underlying Conservative Failures

I wonder what happens to currency when all the Grovers in the world get it all -- then there's like none left to run the systems that generate profits, like blood pooling in one foot. I don't see how currency means a damned thing if it's not circulating throughout the entire economic body.

Further, I believe it is humans that give value to currency, not the reverse. The world that the Grover-cons envision can't be fit for human beings.

Maybe they're aliens.

Posted at July 25, 2007 2:05 AM in response to Big Government Grover Norquist

My gut feeling is that Bush will be pardoning Osama bin Laden on his way out of office.

Posted at July 11, 2007 11:53 PM in response to Terrorist Crock of Crap, Part Deux

um....so was I.

Posted at June 16, 2007 5:24 PM in response to In Which I Finally Offer My Long-Gestating Opinion on the "Free Scooter Now" Campaign

Ah, geez, if I didn't understand the punch line, does that mean I lose my membership to the fever-swamp denizens club?

Guess my complimentary snark period is up.

Posted at June 15, 2007 7:11 AM in response to In Which I Finally Offer My Long-Gestating Opinion on the "Free Scooter Now" Campaign

If you are not the elephant, the scenery never changes.

In the long parade of the Washington, D.C. court of kings and entourage, the scribes and jesters do not lead. They follow.

Gloria Berger and her fellow scribes dutifully regurgitate according to the royal script.

Her output only serves to locate her position in this ridiculous constellation.

Filing Borger and friends under: Born under a foul sign.

Posted at June 2, 2007 1:35 PM in response to Gloria Borger

I'm no expert. But this is what I do know.
In 2000, Muslims I know drank the Bush kool-aid and turned out to vote for him thinking that he would be more balanced in his Middle East policies -- most notably with respect to the Israeli-Palestinian issues.

By 2004, they had no such confidence in Bush.

So, yeah, I can see why some might wish to step in and declare their support unnecessary. "We don't need them anyway" kinda message.

I'm all for these neo-cons drinking more of their own kool-aid. They're fooling no one but themselves.

Posted at June 1, 2007 2:56 PM in response to There Are Damn Few Muslims In this Country!

I have never quite understood the almost apologetic tone adopted by those purporting to stand up to the illegal acts of the Bush Administration. It goes on still.

My perception is that our democratic republic is on life support -- flat-lining even -- and politicians are standing around claiming that the patient has a low-grade temperature.

In 2001, an unusual email landed in my box addressed not to me, but to an FBI field agent.

I had no connection to either the sender or the addressee. Yet, there it was in my email box. I forwarded the email to the proper addressee from my box. And this "glitch" never happened again. In any other time line, I would have thought of it as a glitch. On that day, I suspected the glitch to be illegal surveillance.

So you see, the damage is already done. We now live in an environment of suspicion. And to further compound this insult, we're probably going to watch helplessly as those who broke the laws walk away without prosecution.

Posted at May 22, 2007 7:42 PM in response to Pulling the Plug on Warrantless Eavesdropping of Americans

When I see the personal fortunes being used to campaign to be Top Dawg(ette), and then look at how Al Gore is using his resources to get the important issues upfront, helping young people to empower themselves, leading by example -- that is inspiring for me.

Politicians talk. That's what they do. And it's important. But you cannot "walk" ideas forward on one leg. So honest movers and shakers must be part of the program. And that's how I see Al Gore -- the other leg that will help turn the political "talk" into "walk."

He was my hero in 2000 and every day since. Look what he's done out of office. It's impressive -- far more impressive than what the rich kid GeeDubya did with the title.

Posted at May 20, 2007 2:02 PM in response to Gore Running! (This Week's TIME Cover Story)