Archive for November, 2011

It’s Economics, Not a Morality Play

Filed under: Economy — by Will Kirkland 11/29/2011 @ 4:09:52 PM
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Joe Nocera seconds Paul Krugman’s earlier plea to distinguish between economic policies that will save all parties and an application of personal morality that will ruin all.

 
Can’t the Germans see, … [Keep reading >>]

Bizarre ™(NG) Newt Gingrich News

Filed under: Politics | Republicans — by Will Kirkland 11/29/2011 @ 12:03:27 PM
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The bizarre™(NG) Newt Gingrich is making appearances in various media forums these days.  A front page piece in the New York Times today points out that  his “approach to history … [Keep reading >>]

Covering Newt

Filed under: Politics | Republicans — by Will Kirkland 11/25/2011 @ 6:05:48 PM
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Just a reminder now that the “bizarre” Newt seems to be crawling up the backsides of the “corrupt” Rick Perry and the “disgraceful”  rest in their quest to pour concrete … [Keep reading >>]

It’s A Food Product, Essentially — FOX News

Filed under: FrontPage — by RobE 11/23/2011 @ 4:30:53 PM
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Scientific American sets those groping in the dark towards an exit of actual knowledge.
Last night on Fox News, anchor Megyn Kelly joined Bill O’Reilly to assess just how much the … [Keep reading >>]

The Alabama Gift That Just Keeps Taking

Filed under: Migration — by Will Kirkland 11/22/2011 @ 8:18:28 AM
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I don’t know if the editorial board of the NY Times has ever tracked an event and written about it about over time as it is doing in the case … [Keep reading >>]

Wall Street Journal Whispers Climate Change

Filed under: Climate Change | Environment — by Will Kirkland 11/19/2011 @ 9:52:54 AM
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The weekend edition, November 19-20 of the Wall Strret Journal, on page A11, bottom, very bottom gives 3 short columns to the newest IPCC report:

UN Seens Links to Extreme weather
—Climate change is leading … [Keep reading >>]

The Arch of Triumph: Love in Paris, 1938 — A Short Take

Filed under: Movies | War — by Will Kirkland 11/18/2011 @ 9:55:27 AM
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Ingrid Bergman looks her fabled, youthful best and Charles Boyer dark and dashing as her handsome, older lover in The Arch of Triumph a forgotten minor gem of WW II … [Keep reading >>]

In the United States: A State of Exception

Filed under: 9/11/2001 | Civil Liberties — by Will Kirkland 11/16/2011 @ 2:33:07 PM
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Mark Danner, in another of his many important articles, brings attention back to the horrific results of the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York and Washington D.C.  Horrific of course … [Keep reading >>]

The Forests, They Are a Changin’

Filed under: Climate Change | Environment — by Will Kirkland 11/16/2011 @ 7:38:03 AM
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A new study by forest researchers suggests some types of trees will lose ground to other species as climate change raises temperatures and tweaks precipitation patterns.
The study predicts “large scale disturbances” … [Keep reading >>]

A Board Game: “Jews Out” — from 1938 Germany

Filed under: War — by Will Kirkland 11/15/2011 @ 1:07:27 PM
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Looking back at horrible events in history too often become a kind of horror-porn — explicit images, intended to claw at our deepest emotions but without much reason to go … [Keep reading >>]

Iran Blast and Death of Head of Missile Program Attributed to Mossad

Filed under: Middle East | Terrorism — by Will Kirkland 11/15/2011 @ 12:45:01 PM
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Iran is insisting that the enormous blast at a military base which killed  Gen. Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam, founder of the Iranian missile program, along with 16 others, was an accident, occurring during a … [Keep reading >>]

The Torture Candidates

Filed under: Republicans | Torture — by Will Kirkland 11/15/2011 @ 12:22:07 PM
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The signs of intelligent life in the Republican universe are not overwhelming.  At the recent debate several proudly stood up for torture, one would neither stand up nor condemn.  Two … [Keep reading >>]

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