Friday, February 27, 2009

Everything Old is Newt Again

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He's back. Three months after the election, the Republican Party is still in shock. Not only from its losses, but from the state of irr...
Thursday, February 26, 2009

The Icing on the Cupcake

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The Atlantic parses cupcakes.  Does this mean the craze is passe?

Geography really is Destiny

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How will different parts of the county survive in the current economic crises?  Will cities and suburbs have to reinvent themselves and how ...
Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Teach the Children

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The President has said that when kids, especially inner city kids, drop out of school they are not only letting themselves down, but they ar...

Jeffrey Sachs and the global challenge

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Jeffrey Sachs believes that the global economic crises give us a unique windows of opportunity to take on economic development, poverty, an...
Friday, February 20, 2009

The Credit Crisis made simple!

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A brilliant piece of work by Jonathan Jarvis with the "the goal of giving form to a complex situation like the credit crisis is to quic...
Thursday, February 19, 2009

Five to Ten more years in Iraq

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The war in Iraq went on longer than WWII before we began to even understand how to fix it. Thomas Rick's books FIASCO details our invasi...

Raw Politics

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Obama Sushi
Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Dubai - Not so good

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From Smashing Telly Short of opening a Radio Shack in an Amish town, Dubai is the world’s worst business idea, and there isn’t even any oil....
Sunday, February 15, 2009

Recession R & R

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If people are eating out less, shopping less, and overall spending less, what are they doing for fun? Will Saletan in Slate maybe on to som...
Thursday, February 12, 2009

Bankers as Celebrities

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Listening to the bankers before congress yesterday was both impressive and instructive.   You realize these are very smart, well paid guy, d...

Roosevelt had it right

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Is it just our short attention span, our partisanship, or have we simply become less wise over 77 years?  Roosevelt had it right.  Can you i...
Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Oh Canada

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Fareed Zakaria has a great column in Newsweek about why Canada is the only industrialized nation in the world that is thriving. They may...

Architect of our dreams

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Architecture is much more visible today than a generation ago. Celebrity architects have lead to buildings that get a lot more public atten...
Tuesday, February 10, 2009

So Damn Much Money

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Much of the breakdown of our political system can be laid at the foot of lobbyists.  It's an idea our founding father understood, but th...
Sunday, February 8, 2009

Be Afraid

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If this doesn't focus the mind on the need for a large stimulus package, I don't know what will. Krugman says that 800 Billion is n...
Friday, February 6, 2009

Urban schools can work!

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Fareed Zakaria notes in his terrific book, “The Post-American World,” the problem with American education is not the good schools. White sub...

Like making sausage

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Joe Klein , seems to be the only one who understands that creating legislation does not have the elegance of a campaign.  Since we now have ...
Wednesday, February 4, 2009

SNARK is spreading....

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Sophomoric humor, bitterness, trash talk, and a weakening public discourse are all symbols of our culture today.  How did we get here and wh...
Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Newt Gingrich's picture of our future

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Periods of gloom interrupted by moments of sheer disaster.