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glossolalique wrote a new diary post: CPI Unchained: A Cruel Hoax
It’s a hoax because it gives the impression that Competent People are on top of the problem and dealing with it. It’s cruel because it is just one more step away from sane, humanistic policy into a morass of corporatism. “Consumer Price Index” – sounds like it’s all about us, doesn’t it? But no; consumers [...]
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glossolalique commented on the diary post A Bad Idea Is a Bad Idea, No Matter Who Proposes It by dakine01.
Chained CPI is not “a reasonable way to construct a price index,” as Dean Baker says. It is wholly unreasonable. As I pointed out weeks ago, steak-eaters can switch to hamburger, as the tiresome example goes, but what do rice-and-bean-eaters switch to? Dirt? There’s this almost universal assumption among the punditry that all Americans are [...]
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glossolalique wrote a new diary post: Balance of Powers
Human beings are given protection under the Constitution because we are weak, and the State is strong. If freedom is the heart, balance of powers is the bone of our Constitution. We cannot, as individuals, simultaneously attend a board meeting in Ireland, run a dragline in Ontario, build a pipeline in Alaska, run a string [...]
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glossolalique wrote a new diary post: Definitions
“Schadenfreudian Slip” – Inadvertent irony entering into statements of condolence or sympathy meant to be sincere, but corrupted by an unconscious wish to see another come to harm, and the pleasure occasioned thereby. An imperfect, but famous example of this occurred during the battle for the nomination to the candidacy for the presidency between Barack [...]
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glossolalique commented on the diary post Change Your Mind, Your Mass Will Follow by glossolalique.
Linguistics is only an aspect of my hope for human transubstantiation. Genetic/ Structural Neurology is the key, and your appropriate reference to music seems to be in agreement with that. I may blog on my 20-year adventure with Looney Tunes, which installed itself in my brain to such a degree that it became a mantra, [...]
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glossolalique commented on the diary post Definitions by glossolalique.
Hey! That was four sentences!
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glossolalique commented on the diary post That’s Funny, by glossolalique.
you got a rough job, dakine.
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glossolalique commented on the diary post Definitions by glossolalique.
Tell it to Ambrose Bierce.
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glossolalique commented on the diary post Definitions by glossolalique.
OK, I get the 100-word minimum, and I don’t often cruise the diaries, but when I do, thesis, analysis and summary aren’t always present. So cruise on, copper.
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glossolalique wrote a new diary post: Change Your Mind, Your Mass Will Follow
Enjoy your godlessness! Practice new-found freedoms, find out for yourself just how meaningless life really is, learn to love the absence of obligation to think deep thoughts, not that you ever did, though adding God to the stew did seem to add some dimension, some heft to the flat, banal, daily grind… it didn’t of [...]
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glossolalique commented on the diary post U.S. Coast Guard Investigation on Shell Alaska Drilling Rig Turned Over to U.S. Department of Justice by EdwardTeller.
Oh, yeah, almost forgot, you’re a treasure Mr. Teller. I got so sick of listening to the Ph.D.’s in Los Alamos, “Take it from me, I’m a rocket scientist. There is no global warming.” My neighbors!!! I’m so glad to be outta there, though the physical location was exquisite.
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glossolalique commented on the diary post U.S. Coast Guard Investigation on Shell Alaska Drilling Rig Turned Over to U.S. Department of Justice by EdwardTeller.
All thoughts of safety are illusion. Forget about growing your own tomatoes – we are in a synergistically progressive cascade of catastrophe. More CO2 means lower pH rain which, falling on limestone, releases more carbon, et c. et c. Meanwhile, the mechanism of “free” markets insures that extraction exceeds sustainability as long as humans remain [...]
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glossolalique commented on the diary post Afghanistan vaults past US on civil liberties and human rights! It comes to this! by Rex.
whew! you are sooooooooo whistling in the dark…
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glossolalique commented on the diary post Afghanistan vaults past US on civil liberties and human rights! It comes to this! by Rex.
you can only shame the decent, but in a world where the fundamental expectation of sanity has been shredded, what does that even mean? Someone must reestablish order, remind the insane and shameless that actions have consequences, such as pain, loss, and grief we have been smugly inflicting on the world without recognition of the [...]
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glossolalique commented on the diary post Laura Bush Gets Marriage Equality Ad Dropped Completely by Teddy Partridge.
That reminds me, call the nursery, order a laurel tree.
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glossolalique wrote a new diary post: It Ends When You Do
I don’t think we were ever meant to get this far…
if there’s such a thing as “meant”, that is…
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glossolalique wrote a new diary post: Definitions
Parabox, n: a container lacking an interior.* to put things into it is to miss it entirely. In other words, if you’re in a parabox, try as you might, you can’t get in.
*if we accept “container” metaphorically, the mind.
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glossolalique wrote a new diary post: That’s Funny,
There’s no Mystery today.
Go, hang out the sign,
Won’t You?
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glossolalique wrote a new diary post: Follow The Money
Relief for New Jersey’s storm victims has been slow in coming. Why? Republicans are just dying to spend on giveaways for the rich, and of course on defense. What do they have against poor Governor Christie? I put my ear to the ground and the dog whistles say, “Paaaaay-baaack!” Payback? For what? [...]
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glossolalique wrote a new diary post: Goddammit!
Amy Goodman is on the radio, “…young woman succumbed to wounds she suffered during the hours-long attack.” God Damn! It’s been two weeks! Will a day ever pass that some reference to this atrocity won’t rip my heart out yet again? Yesterday it was her last words, “I’m sorry, mommy.” I sat in the car [...]
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