April 2010
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“What we do not make conscious emerges later as fate.”
– Carl Jung
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via edviges.com
“Children need to learn the language of things before they learn the language of...”
– Freidrich Froebel
Rebekah Del Rio
via video.google.com Llorando ©1994
Written by Roy Orbison Spanish adaptation by Thania Sanz Performed by Rebekah Del Rio
Yo estaba bien por un tiempo volviendo a sonreír Luego anoche te vi tu mano me tocó y el saludo de tu voz Y hablé muy bien y tú sin saber que he estado llorando por tu amor llorando por tu amor Luego de tu adiós sentí todo mi dolor Sola y llorando, llorando,...
“Strong personalities distort the information field around them”
– David Brooks, NYTimes.com
Justice Paul Stevens
Justice Paul Stevens
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nytimes.com, Andrea Ventura
The End Of The Euro?
Paul Krugman, The Euro Trap
The fact is that three years ago none of the countries now in or near crisis [Greece, Portugal, Spain] seemed to be in deep fiscal trouble. Even Greece’s 2007 budget deficit was no higher, as a share of G.D.P., than the deficits the United States ran in the mid-1980s (morning in America!), while Spain actually ran a surplus. And all of the countries were...
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Homeward Bound - Ben...
NYC = Linguistic Honey Pot
Dying Languages, Found in New York - NYTimes.com
While there is no precise count, some experts believe New York is home to as many as 800 languages — far more than the 176 spoken by students in the city’s public schools or the 138 that residents of Queens, New York’s most diverse borough, listed on their 2000 census forms. “It is the capital of language density in the world,” said Daniel...
Moving Back
My experiment with Posterous has failed, mostly because the advertised ‘import from tumblr’ feature apparently doesn’t work.
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John McCain says Illegal Immigrants 'Intentionally...
O’REILLY: Now, next week, the governor is going to sign, we believe, a very stringent state law that gives the police in Arizona very, very broad authority to question people. And a lot of people say it’s going to be racial profiling. You’re going to look for Hispanics, question them, to see if they’re here legally or not. And it’s just not fair. And you say why?
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John McCain says Illegal Immigrants 'Intentionally...
O’REILLY: Now, next week, the governor is going to sign, we believe, a very stringent state law that gives the police in Arizona very, very broad authority to question people. And a lot of people say it’s going to be racial profiling. You’re going to look for Hispanics, question them, to see if they’re here legally or not. And it’s just not fair. And you say...
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Goldman Sachs Indicted
accuses Goldman of intentionally designing a financial product that would have a high chance of falling in value, at the request of a client, and lying about it to the customers who bought it. It says that Goldman allowed that client — John Paulson, a hedge fund manager — to pick bonds he wanted to bet against, and then packaged those bonds into a new investment.
Goldman ten sold this...
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Game Changer
It has always been difficult in America for the governing party to govern. Only twice in the past century — the New Deal era between 1933 and 1938 and the 89th Congress of Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society — did progressive Dem-ocrats have a large enough margin in Congress coupled with real presidential leadership to enact major reforms. The particulars were different then,...
Placeless
Anand Giridharadas, The Struggle of the Global Placeless
There is a modern myth that globalization is new. But the world has integrated before, disintegrated in war, and integrated fitfully again. Goods and people have swirled for a long time, and in the 17th, 18th or 19th century you might have found on any ship a crew and passengers made up of slaves, traders, cooks, officers, colonizers...
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Fleshmob Protests Full-Body Scanners
The argument surrounding full-body scanners has been taken to a more personal level in Germany - with a series of naked protests dubbed ‘fleshmobs’.
Groups of demonstrators have stripped off at airports in Berlin, Frankfurt and Dusseldorf in reaction to the news that officials are considering installing the scanners during the coming year.
A number of governments around the world...
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Placeless
Anand Giridharadas, The Struggle of the Global Placeless
There is a modern myth that globalization is new. But the world has integrated before, disintegrated in war, and integrated fitfully again. Goods and people have swirled for a long time, and in the 17th, 18th or 19th century you might have found on any ship a crew and passengers made up of slaves, traders, cooks, officers, colonizers and...
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No Non-Terrible Answers For Greece
Paul Krugman, Learning From Greece
Until recently, being a member of the euro zone seemed like a good thing for Greece, bringing with it cheap loans and large inflows of capital. But those capital inflows also led to inflation — and when the music stopped, Greece found itself with costs and prices way out of line with Europe’s big economies. Over time, Greek prices will have to come back down....
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Russia's Caucasian Mess
“It’s almost impossible to fight the insurgency as it is today,” said Mark Galeotti, a specialist in Russian security issues who leads New York University’s Center for Global Affairs. “Even when you’re talking to officers in the F.S.B., you get a constituency that says, ‘We’re going to be facing these kinds of attacks as long as you have miserably unhappy, desperate people in the North...
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At Last: Palestinians Turning To Non-Violent...
Something is stirring in the West Bank. With both diplomacy and armed struggle out of favor for having failed to end the Israeli occupation, the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority, joined by the business community, is trying to forge a third way: to rouse popular passions while avoiding violence. The idea, as Fatah struggles to revitalize its leadership, is to build a virtual state and body...
Animals Are People, Too
Even Among Animals: Leaders, Followers and Schmoozers
via nytimes.com
Animals have distinct personalities, they are relatively stable, and they play as large a role in their lives as they do in ours.
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The Upside Of Airline Baggage Fees: Less Lost...
The decrease in the number of bags checked last year, which the report also attributed to a drop in the number of people flying, resulted in a 24 percent decrease in the number of bags mishandled worldwide — both damaged and lost. That, in turn, saved the United States airline industry $94 million, according to SITA’s figures.
via nytimes.com, Christine Negroni, Less Baggage Big Savings to...
“The opposite of talking is not listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.”
– Fran Leibowitz
Here Lies Love
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Today the Here Lies Love package comes out - multiple formats and lots of stuff to absorb. There are download versions and CDs, and the top of the line is a 120-page book with 2 CDs and a DVD of 6 videos. That can be ordered on line as well. In case you don’t know about this project, it’s a series of 22 very danceable songs about Imelda Marcos, the former first lady of the...
Factory Food
No country has embraced the movement toward commercialized, prepackaged food as much as the United States.
Americans eat 31 percent more packaged food than fresh food, and they consume more packaged food per person than their counterparts in nearly all other countries. A sizable part of the American diet is ready-to-eat meals, like frozen pizzas and microwave dinners, and sweet or salty...
The Real Answer Is Less, Not Green
Devin Leonard, ‘Green Gone Wrong’: Can Capitalism Save the Planet?
Now, along comes Heather Rogers, who warns about the dangers of buying into this mind-set with “Green Gone Wrong: How Our Economy Is Undermining the Environmental Revolution” (Scribner, 272 pages, $26). She says green capitalism is actually undermining ecological progress.
Ms. Rogers is a muckraking investigative reporter...
Look To The Start-Ups
Between 1980 and 2005, virtually all net new jobs created in the U.S. were created by firms that were 5 years old or less. That is about 40 million jobs. That means the established firms created no new net jobs during that period.
via nytimes.com, Thomas Friedman quoting Robert Litan
