Month: December, 2007
31 December, 2007 (14:34) | Economics, Political, Sociology | 2 comments
[tag]Jim Kunstler[/tag] has a very succinct article today on the destruction of the [tag]US economy[/tag] in his [tag]Forecast for 2008[/tag] post. Here are a few choice quotes but do go read the whole thing. If you’re not mad and not scared you really should be.
The inertia holding everything together that I described in last year’s [...]
30 December, 2007 (13:26) | Personal | 2 comments
For all my online and offline friends. After serious & cautious consideration…..your contract of has been renewed for the 2008!
It was a very hard decision to make. So try not to screw it up!!!
My Wish for You in
May peace break into your house and may thieves come to steal your debts. May [...]
30 December, 2007 (09:58) | Business | No comments
Via Tom at comes this that is outrageous and probably . I doubt this will ever make it on to TV in North America
[tags]sexually explicit ads[/tags]
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29 December, 2007 (17:08) | Political, Sociology, War | 1 comment
Awesome video of ’s via Loren
In a weapons producing
In the fabled crucible of the free world
Camera crews search for clues amid the detritus
And entertainment shapes the land
The way the hammer shapes the hand
Gleaming faces in the checkout counter at the Church of Fame
The lucky winners cheer Casino Nation
All those not on TV only have [...]
28 December, 2007 (21:45) | Environment, Sociology | No comments
Via Yule comes this interesting article:
Sometime in 2008, if it hasn’t happened already, more than 50% of the will have left the country to live in the city. No more Homo sapiens instead Homo sapiens urbanis
Within ten years the world will have nearly 500 cities of more than 1m people. Most of the [...]
27 December, 2007 (16:20) | Miscellaneous | No comments
From the CBC Archives a tribute to Oscar Peterson
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27 December, 2007 (16:05) | Religion, Sociology | No comments
How very um…. of them.
and priests were sweeping up at the church following the of the Western churches earlier in the week.
Reports say some Orthodox faithful encroached on the Armenian section, prompting pitched battles with brooms.
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26 December, 2007 (13:39) | Technology | 1 comment
I can’t say I like very much about the royal family in England, great for tourism and all eh what! A bloody good show and all that rot but otherwise what real use are they? Having said that I’ve always liked Elizabeth. Thrown into it unexpectedly at an early age she rose to the occasion [...]
26 December, 2007 (13:07) | Political | No comments
Mike gets
“Who is your favorite author?” , 7, of West Des Moines asked Mr. Huckabee in one of those posing-like-a-shopping-mall-Santa moments.
Mr. Huckabee paused, then said his favorite author was Dr. Seuss.
In an interview afterward with the news media, Aleya said she was somewhat surprised. She thought the candidate would be reading at a [...]
26 December, 2007 (11:29) | Media, Sociology | No comments
via Shifting Baselines an old CBS Christmas Greetings commercial from 1966. I remember it well and it’s sad that what was once a joyous family festival has devolved into the mass commercialism we see today. As many pointed out in the post this commercial could never be shown today, it is the antithesis of what [...]
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