Stellar stuff. Kinda makes that History of Art class, of so many moons ago, superfluous. Thanks Prof WD! As time flows on, gravity affects the body not the soul. Spiritual synaptic interface is elevated. Luvya; gone.

I’m with you TD, but you know the Tea Party is saying the same thing. So I’m having difficulty resolving the definitions of capitulation with that of compromise; and suppose its a question of degree and how far the center flag moves in the political tug-of-war. The next six weeks should have plenty of discussion [...]

Hellofa post Dave. If we could get your essay inscribed in titanium and placed on, say the Washington Monument; maybe in 10K years, if there are any left to read, someone in an insulated space suit might therefore find evidence that some of the planet’s population had broken free of this higher form of addiction. [...]

Absent no, but distracted. Nothing but letting my Poly-Sci run wild in trying to get rid of Allen West,… success. Been more or less lurking, not commenting during my check-ins, still leashed to FDL but watching the BS of other blogs. “Time in your head” Aaah the nuanced thoughts of WD,.. that would be interesting, [...]

The national average is 4% for next year.

http://csbj.com/2012/11/09/health-insurance-rate-increases-at-10-year-low/

Something is disconnected.

Wonderful allegorical layering of our deepest dysfunctional state of affairs. If only there were an easy way, to a simple grasp of the shadows of the cognitive cave that the Vultures keep us trapped within. Alas, as Econo.@27 demonstrates, and Plato lamented, intellectual discernment is granted to too few, the shadow will always be real [...]

Good post Cass. Another bread and election circus on shit that doesn’t matter in the long run. When, if ever, we can afford to educate humans beyond the domain of the political psychology of ‘Sheeple,’ there might be a chance to save some of the habitable land of our spaceship for the last vestiges of [...]

If sufficient public support builds for a consumer boycott, even 10% of sales, it would change everything. Walmart’s 36 hour weeks steals the deserved benefits from labor. They should have earned 90% of their unemployment at least. 80 hr months should be the threshold to stop this theft of labor. The requirement of a 40 [...]

If Jesus has any intent to save this planet, he’d better start planning on his return visit bc it looks like we’ve fucked this one up beyond our ability to redeem ourselves. Its a bitch when making a capitalistic wage-slave living today, kills your chances of having great grand-children. Or if we do, they won’t [...]

Great post and thread going cmaukonen. Your assessment is probably dead on scary accurate. When Paulson showed up with a one page robbery note that America must save the world’s financial malfeasance and that we had no choice but to cash his unlimited blank check, we were screwed. This ongoing extortion racket, to just keep [...]

Excellent post Watt4Bob. The exchanges need to incrementalize the post times into these bids, which are indeed bets on market movement. Not unlike wagering on a horserace. Common folk’s wagers are locked in at the start of a race. These HFT’s get to wait until the last 100 yards to make their bet on which [...]

Thanks AitchD. I didn’t know that LBJ was quite such an exceptionalist; Tonkin Gulf’s continuation of Manifest Destiny aside.

Top shelf Wendy, as usual. We’ve generally forgiven the Jews for a long ago crucifixion. Perhaps the Holocaust was so horrible that we can’t bring ourselves to transcend its horror in order to question the immunity of political prosecution or even criticism that we have subsequently bestowed on Israel. AIPAC influence not withstanding, Israel has [...]

I think at least 90% of Americans who vote do so out of fear.

Agree, your probably even low on your assessment, as fear (subset of pain avoidance) is a key evolutionary drive mechanism. Heck, we’re probably even genetically prone to phobia. Its a shame we now vote to avoid evil, rather than to elect [...]

Thanks for bringing Bing over, I now have a better grasp of the French folks perspective of the EU turmoil. Seems more encouraging than what I hear from Deutschland. “Austeritarian” is a more politically palatable description than “trickle down” or the “crumbs off our table” or the “fickle middle-finger of fate” economy. The EU and [...]

That many pieces may take awhile to put back together.

There are plenty of off the shelf RC airplanes that can carry a pound of C4 explosive. Flown through a window, it could take out a fair sized room. Launch distance of a couple miles is easy. There is a smaller one that flies in excess of 120 mph; it would be hard to shoot [...]

Very interesting post and thread mfi. Scary stuff. We don’t yet know if this was a remote controlled drone, or a fire and forget GPS controlled, preprogramed ipad equipped drone, much like our cruise missiles. May never know. I limited understanding is that real time video quality, sensors and weapons control data volume are the [...]

Thanks for your poignant memorial to the economic congruency that once sustained our community values. The recycled economic fertilizer of neighborhoods. Depressed wages have pushed families into the insular presumed cost savings of Warped-reality Mart. Save a dollar today, lose your community tomorrow. We didn’t understand the nature of the corporate poisoning of our local [...]