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A summer of extremes -- correction
Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:19:19 UT
Correction:
For whatever Merc-retro-mayhem reason, none of the links in today's post
worked. Please visit the Political Waves blog to activate them ... they were
excellent.
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Apologies,
Jude

A summer of extremes
Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:45:26 UT
Perhaps you share my concerns about the future of civil society.
Historically, the summer months create a rain barrel for people to yell
into, you can hear the echo everywhere today. During these hot and
hysterical months, folks who actually know how to communicate are shouted
down by people who know how to shout, but evidently don't know how to think

Plan B
Fri, 20 Aug 2010 20:19:38 UT
Mercury has gone retro with a clap of thunder and a screech of brakes ... at
least in my household. Can't get to my email and the links I needed for the
planned post -- so here's a down and dirty alternative, pointing your
attention to a couple of serious issues from the class and culture wars that

Summer numbers
Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:30:03 UT
Do you remember last summer and the advent of the Baggers? Bile and bilge
and 'populist anger' that tipped us over into the Dark Side of political and
social discourse. All year this has been with us, the sheer ignorance and
hysteria of the Glenn Beck stuff, the 'mean-girl' sophistry and back-biting

Good, Bad and Ugly -- today's version
Thu, 05 Aug 2010 17:41:16 UT
No, I wasn't kidnapped by aliens.
The thing about crisis is it works itself up for awhile before arriving,
taking on weight and potency, and then sits on your chest until you pay
attention. So goes my most recent adventure -- a little bout with what
seemed like allergy that turned into walking pneumonia complicated by

The peoples champion
Tue, 20 Jul 2010 05:14:05 UT
We have a new and complex set of financial rules in this country -- the
first stiffening of policy and prohibition since FDR -- and while they
aren't as profound as we wanted, they are still nothing to sneeze at. The
Achilles Heel is that the regulators MUST bare the weight of their
responsibility if this is to work -- no establishment shenanigans.

What's decent
Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:15:54 UT
Sorry for not showing up more regularly these last weeks, dearhearts -- I'm
under the weather, both literally and figuratively. But this too shall pass,
soon I hope. Thanks for your patience.
I once voted Libertarian in a fit of pique over the political infighting
that had turned me cold to the Democratic ticket. I chose them because I

4 July, 2010
Sun, 04 Jul 2010 22:28:09 UT
It's Independence Day ... and today I'm remembering, even in all this
political turmoil and national emergency, how hopeless I felt earlier in
this century. There are things to celebrate today and I'm grateful for them.
We're a nation in process -- and one that still has a long way to go to
achieve its balance. The 1,000th

Inching forward
Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:58:28 UT
The financial bill, today, but first -- *in memoriam*:
I can't help but wonder how many obit's have been rewritten and updated,
waiting in the can, for Bobby Byrd's passing. The longest-serving member of
Congress has passed at 92, the last of the great Senators from a century
gone by in which we actually listened to one another. Byrd was a *bona

War of the Words
Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:02:08 UT
First, a belated Happy Father's Day to you all and blessed Solstice as well.
I'd planned on putting something out this weekend, but electrical oddity had
me down, as well as some local TV channels stuck on Friday's offering. How
weird is that!
In these remarkable times, it's best to carefully study the words coming out

A rollercoaster week
Sat, 19 Jun 2010 04:41:13 UT
Well, what a week of hot air and ill wind. I had very modest expectations of
Obama's first Oval Office speech in over a year. The political climate and
the astrological projections [see the last piece] didn't give it much of a
chance as a game changer; but I thought he did what he needed to do. Gave

Notes on the ecowar
Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:31:33 UT
In my weekly piece*, I always go long -- then tighten up in order to meet
the word requirements and further, go through an editing process. That means
throwing out, often, important bits. The bit I had to throw out this week,
in order to shape the whole of the piece, was our stunning disconnect from

Front Row Seat
Wed, 09 Jun 2010 00:56:34 UT
First off, this is a Big Astro day, so do drop by PWaves to read Len's
nod<[link]>...
wise and welcome ... to the energies.
*Self actualization comes to pass. Our old paradigms are no longer able to
contain our reality. We’re becoming aware of how we live and the

Repentance now
Fri, 04 Jun 2010 19:55:14 UT
We seem to have ... to use a few country'ism's ... lost our rabbit-assed
mind, dumb as a box of rocks. We're defending Israel and blaming Obama and
his Liberal minions for the oil spill.
According to The Crazy (tm) ... as Josh Marshall calls the radical Right ...
the 19-year-old American citizen that was killed in the raid on the Mavi

"Israel ran into its own fist"
Tue, 01 Jun 2010 17:36:48 UT
Welcome to Uranus in Aries -- uncorked passions, conflict and militarism.
[[sigh]]
Today we'll look at Israel's botched attempt to stop the Flotilla which
peace activists have been planning for months now. It was designed to bring
needed relief supplies to Palestinians via the sea, like the one awhile back