Gods of the yo-yo
Bob Morris @ May 28th 2008 20:14 - Category: Unfiled ;
Interview with yo-yo champion David Capurro.
Archive for May 28th, 2008
Does the Left not like winning?
Bob Morris @ May 28th 2008 16:19 - Category: Unfiled Tags: gay marriage;
Sometimes it seems that way. American Leftist has a thoughtful essay on same sex marriage, but ends up thinking that the stance taken a hard left SF gay group, (oddly named Gay Shame) that opposes all marriage because it reinforces the capitalist class system, may have merit.
Can’t we just celebrate the same sex marriage ruling by the California Supreme Court without mucking it up with fringe rants that’ll alienate most people rather than attract them to the cause?
Especially when they can’t even get their facts right. Quoting from GayShame.
Because of marriage’s ability to discipline class structures it is now, and always has been a primary structure of a capitalist economy.
Given the marriage has been around for millenia, it predates any capitalist society, and thus makes their argument seem absurd. Like the Babylonians didn’t pass down property and wealth via marriage. Or that this wouldn’t happen in a Marxist society. After all, they have private property too. It’s just the means of production that are owned by the State. (Or rather that’s how Marx envisioned it, the practice of course was somewhat different.)
American Left ends by referring to Marcuse, saying gay marriage might be a trick of the ruling class, a deliberate increase in individual rights so as enforce more collective repression.
Sheesh. We just got a big fat victory handed to us. Why does the Left too often seem to insist on making everything dire and gloomy?
Dell Hell
Bob Morris @ May 28th 2008 12:26 - Category: Unfiled ;
Court finds Dell guilty of “fraud, false advertising, deceptive business practices and abusive debt collection practices.”
Working class whites do support Obama
Bob Morris @ May 28th 2008 10:17 - Category: Unfiled ;
Email from a 62 yo white from Virginia to Joe Bageant, author of Deer Hunting With Jesus, Dispatches from America’s Class War.
Here’s what I think. Senator Obama will win a lot of votes in Virginia, maybe not take the state but make it close. My kids range in age from 32 to 38. Among them there are two mixed marriages and one lesbian couple. Most of the kids in their age range will look at their kids and vote for the future.
Joe agrees, and replies
Racism may be a wedge issue in some places, such as West Virginia, and it sure as hell will be used. At any rate, I’ve seen as much racism in Los Angeles as in my hometown in the Blue Ridge mountains. And maybe one of the best kept secrets in America is just how many rednecks have mixed race children or nephews and nieces, etc. I have two myself. A couple of generations have come along since the Sixties. But pundits and media sanctioned authorities, no few of them black, still dine out on broad Sixties era generalizations.
Proof again, if it still be needed, that the American public is way ahead of its supposed leaders and the media, and certainly way ahead of a clueless chattering class that never actually talks to anyone but itself.
Foreclosures hit the military
Bob Morris @ May 28th 2008 06:11 - Category: Anti-war, Credit crisis Tags: foreclosure;
Foreclosures within 10 miles of military facilities in the US are four times higher than than in other areas.
“Think about how much stress comes with a foreclosure, and then imagine you’re walking the same tightrope while being employed in Baghdad,” said Paul Rieckhoff, 33, the head of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America and a former 1st lieutenant with the Army’s 3rd Infantry Division.
Bobby had an eagle and a flag tattooed on his arm
Red white and blue to the bone when he landed in Kandahar
Left behind a pretty young wife and a baby girl
A stack of overdue bills and went off to save the world
Been a year now and he’s still there
Chasin’ ghosts in the thin dry air
Meanwhile back at home the finance company took his car
Just another poor boy off to fight a rich man’s war
Tip: The Blue Voice
Why oil prices keep rising
Bob Morris @ May 28th 2008 02:03 - Category: Renewable energy Tags: oil prices;
The problem is two-fold. Supply is not rising as prices increase because there is no excess supply. But more importantly, demand across the world is increasing fast.
In the next 17 years, plans are to move 300 million Chinese from farms to cities that have yet to be built. They will want roads, cars, buildings and streetlights. The equivalent of five New Yorks, and some 50,000 skyscrapers, are on drawing boards. Already, some 174 subway systems are under construction and a power plant is completed every month. China already has 200 cities bigger than Dallas.
China is hardly the only emerging country to be modernizing fast, just the biggest. The US (and the world) needs the equivalent of a Marshall Plan for clean energy and transportation, with any promising new technologies being shared by all. Let’s take a tip from the open source movement, and apply those principles to cleantech. Anyone can use the technologies for free with the proviso that whatever enhancements they develop are then fed back into the system for the use and benefit of all.
George Soros says the price rise is fueled by speculation, that it is indeed a bubble, but it won’t burst until the US and Britain are in recession and demand drops. Other investors and speculators say we could see $200 a barrel oil. And they could all be correct, we could see a huge price acceleration, then a crash.
Proof that cell phones are evil
Bob Morris @ May 28th 2008 00:42 - Category: Unfiled ;
