Health Insurance Misdirection:
Making yachts 100% tax-deductible won’t give everyone a yacht.
Month: January 2007
links for 2007-01-24
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been there, done that. it knows all the conversions/measuring systems you’re likely to use, a well.
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if I claim your words are an opinion, does that mean they *can’t* express a fact? are we really to the point where there are no facts, just opinions of varying levels of adoption?
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Interesting to see this in perspective. These cowboys actually though they were James Bond, Pat Garrett, and who knows who else all rolled into one . . . . sad, really
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On expecting this president to lead: “If he does, we will join him. If he does not, we will be showing him the way.” If you didn’t see it on the goggle box, watch it online. A powerful, measured performance.
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Media mogul Josh Marshall invited people to record their own response to the president’s address. See for yourself how they did.
links for 2007-01-23
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as a rule of thumb, right-leaning researchers look for facts to prove their points while left-leaners take the facts and see what they prove: a not so subtle difference.
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take a look at the image and see what you make of it.
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seems like an obvious answer (yes!) but the linked study demonstrates that there is some scientific truth, not just anecdotal belief, to it.
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You know, I don’t know that I have heard all of them, at least not all the way through. But, yeah, there’s some stinkers on here.
nice work if you can get it
Usually, this would just get bookmarked but the quoted passage was too good to pass up:
In the 1,403 days since the Iraq War started, Bush and the Republicans have controlled both the White House and Congress for 1,386 of them. Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats have now controlled Congress – but not the White House – for precisely 17 days (12, if you count actual business hours).
Yet in a stunning offensive, [wealthy conservative author Dinesh] D’Souza would have us believe, the “Pelosi left” and its al Qaeda allies already have the war on terror trapped in a friggin’ pincer movement. Why, in just those famous first ‘Hundred Hours’ alone, Iraq went from peaceful, democratic land of collegial debate over theological nuances to murderous and chaotic hellhole!
Folks, this is your 2007 Hoover Institution Rishwain Fellow. Wingnut welfare, indeed.
I’m inclined to say he doesn’t need the money but it beats working.
Atlanta: poster child for bad living
Why is Atlanta so often used an example of sprawl and poor urban design? And what a poor comparison: Atlanta vs Vancouver . . . .
Global Warming Trend
Professor Brad Delong points out what the climate change ignoramuses don’t understand: plant and animal life will migrate with the temperature changes, as best they can. Imagine the American grainbelt migrating to central Canada. I guess I expect farmers to be more active on this, but perhaps that’s a testament to the imbalance of big agribusiness concerns vs small family farms.
portfolio workshop
I am doing a portfolio workshop under the auspices of the f295 group and was selected as part of the first group to compose an artist’s statement. Quite an exercise, but well worth doing. If you don’t examine what you do, how do you know if you’re doing anything at all? Not to say that everything should be goal-oriented but what is a means of expression if you have nothing to express?
Anyway, take a look and see what’s happening if you’re interested: there are some other good folks there and more to come over the next few weeks.
links for 2007-01-22
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“It’s like allowing a meteorologist to go on-air and say that hurricanes rotate clockwise and tsunamis are caused by the weather. It’s not a political statement…it’s just an incorrect statement.”
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Roxanne asks: “In the meantime, tell me why you are.” So go fill her in.
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If this is half as good as his London series, it will be amazing.
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I had a college roommate who was given a fresh-killed duck: creepiest damn thing I’ve seen in a fridge. Had to make him eat it, too.
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“The engine that drives the radical Christian Right in the United States, the most dangerous mass movement in American history, is not religiosity, but despair.”
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I don’t know much (anything?) about programming but “the results look like a Soviet tractor built on a Monday” doesn’t require a lot of coding smarts to understand.
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I just like the cool camera icon they chose . . .
the controversial Typewriter Eraser
Much news about this piece of art: there is a sign prohibiting photographs of it but it’s unenforceable in any practical way. The whole park is off-limits to *commercial* photography, understandably.
But if I had to pick one iconic image to represent the park, this one would be it, if for no other reason than to tweak the artist and the owner (Paul Allen, believe it or not).
“Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.†– A.A.
You need to read the linked post/description to make any sense of this.
“Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.” – A.A.
Originally uploaded by Mr. Gillette & His Image-Making Apparatus.
Walter Benjamin has covered this already.
But what kind of education can you get from such a limited perspective? No need to use a darkroom? How can you make clear how an artform came to it’s current manifestation without understanding history?
And I want a wall like that guy . . .