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NovemberNov 1 Saturday 08
The Opportunity
There's an opportunity right now, and I fear I will let the opportunity completely pass it by.
2 billion people in the world live on less than $2 per day. 1.8 million children die each year because they don't have clean drinking water.
And I sit at a fancy dinner with …
OctoberOct 10 Friday 08
95 years in the making
"I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men We …
OctoberOct 7 Tuesday 08
Well crap.
Apparently all my comments are lost, and that trusty backup that I made? I can't find it. Bloody fantastic.
SeptemberSep 22 Monday 08
The push to "other-ize" Obama
From the NY Times:
"Just imagine for a moment if it were the black candidate in this election, rather than the white candidate, who was born in Central America, was an indifferent churchgoer, had graduated near the bottom of his university class, had dumped his first …
SeptemberSep 20 Saturday 08
10 things I do to manage my time more effectively
While I have a considerable freedom in working remotely, I realized that I don't take nearly as much advantage of that gift as I should. Specifically, even though I'm able to get a considerable amount of work done in a brief period of time (since I don't have nearly as …
SeptemberSep 18 Thursday 08
GasPedal Scholarships
Andy and the guys at GasPedal are offering scholarships for their next Word of Mouth Marketing Crash Course. If you know folks at a charitable organization, or know an independent blogger who isn't employed by another company that could benefit from learning more about …
The House of Cards
It breaks my heart that people laughed so much at him during the debates and campaigning.
Putting a sweater on someone with a cold can help. Putting a sweater on someone with leprosy...not so much. We want people to solve our economic problems, but aren't willing to …
The Former Publisher of the National Review on Obama
Wick Allison, formerly of the uber-conservative National Review, says:
"Barack Obama is not my ideal candidate for president. (In fact, I made the maximum donation to John McCain during the primaries, when there was still hope he might come to his senses.) But I now see …
SeptemberSep 16 Tuesday 08
Even Richard Cohen Sees It
Cohen, long one of McCain's admirers, says:
"What impressed me most about McCain was the effect he had on his audiences, particularly young people. When he talked about service to a cause greater than oneself, he struck a chord. He expressed his message in words, but he …
SeptemberSep 15 Monday 08
Making America Stupid
From Freidman:
Sorry, but there is no sustainable political/military power without economic power, and talking about one without the other is nonsense. Unless we make America the country most able to innovate, compete and win in the age of globalization, our leverage in …
Conservative Republicans...For Obama
From We Are Out Here (on the admittedly very left-leaning Daily Kos):
"We are out here - the Republicans or ex-Republicans who will no longer tolerate the racist, despicable slime machine that the right wing and the John McCain-Sarah Palin campaign has become. I know, …
SeptemberSep 10 Wednesday 08
Lipstick on a pig
I'm amazed that McCain has a 4 point lead right now. Utterly amazed. I don't agree with Obama on a lot of issues - many people don't. But the man refuses to treat us like idiots. He's taking a risk that people will actually realize that the political "debate" we tend to …