Increasingly, we’re realizing that helping women is the best first step in an array of issues. Data and experience demonstrate that dollars and effort invested in women return more good to the community than delivering to the state or to men. Women tend to reinvest in their families and communities before themselves and policy and [...]
Women and the world’s issues 07.06.08
Happy National Corvette Day! (Also, millions will to starve to death) 06.30.08
Happy National Corvette Day!
From your USA Automotive Industry!
P.S. We are in shambles.
Why? Inability to see predict change? Inability to adjust to current change? Reliance on subservient and dedicated servants in Legislatures across the West?
With rumours of Chrysler’s imminent bankruptcy, GM worth what it was worth in 1955, crumbling domestic infrastructure, peak, and systemic [...]
CBC’s Search Engine is awesome; therefore, cancelled 06.24.08
From Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing:
Last year, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation created a new radio show, Search Engine, to chronicle the shifts being wrought upon global culture and politics as a consequence of technology. It was smart, funny, broke important stories, changed Canadian politics, won awards, and was a global success.
So the CBC cancelled it.
A [...]
Obama vs. the Internet vs. FISA 06.21.08
As you may be aware, House Democrats have been shockingly kind to the White House. The just passed FISA-”compromise” bill, which is nothing but a compromise of the rule of law and extremist corporatism, is another damning example.
Obama has come out in support of the FISA bill, which grants retroactivity immunity to telcos, grants [...]
Recent Kunstler on Suburan Demise and Decentralized Rise 05.05.08
Jim Kunstler in Business Week:
The suburbs were largely products of industrialism. We had a huge supply of oil and cheap undeveloped land, and we decided to become a happy, motoring utopia. It had many practical benefits. The trouble is after a while it became a cartoon of country living …
Cheap oil is what made suburbia [...]
Ten things that won’t change no matter who’s President 02.13.08
Foreign Policy magazine, the Maxim or US Weekly of international affairs writing, offers the following ten things that won’t change no matter who’s President.
America’s relationship with China
The partisan divide
Dependence on foreign oil
The decline in manufacturing jobs
The flow of illegal drugs
Military spending
The influence of lobbyists
U.S. support for Israel
Ethanol subsidies
The primary system
A pretty reasonable if over-simplified list. [...]
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