Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Saturday night distinguished lecture, documentary & interview series, here is Matthieu Ricard, previously a molecular geneticist as the Pasteur Institute, and now a Buddhist monk, presenting his talk: Habits of Happiness (2004, 20:55).
Last week, Dan Gilbert rounded out our very hasty walk, over the last two months, from the cosmos to atoms to the value of predictive pattern matching, consciousness, and happiness. In tonight's show Mattieu continues our look into what new science and technology are telling us about ourselves, and how that relates to ancient versions of said understanding, once at a mystical level, now moving toward an epistemological level. Mattieu's combination of Buddhist monk plus scientist I find interesting, much as in the way I find Lee Kwan Yew's combination of Oxford economist and Confucian interesting.
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
They don't make atheists like they used to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe5kVw9JsYI&feature=channel
From Mark Steyn:
'A question for Michael Ignatieff, MP, Leader of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition:
'When your senior advisor writes to the Canada Israel Committee to get two bloggers with whom he has a strange obsession bounced from a visit to Israel and threatens to frost out the CIC's access to the Liberal Party if he they don't do his bidding and to "contact friends in Israel to warn them about these two women and to suggest they not be permitted entry", is he strongarming a Jewish advocacy group and pressuring the immigration authorities of a foreign state on behalf of himself or on behalf of the Liberal Party of Canada?...'
http://www.steynonline.com/content/view/1825/128/
Canwest has gotten a partial reprive until March 11th from its creditors: "Debt deadline extended for Canwest."
All do respect to Mr. Harvey, now we know the rest of the story thanks to Daniel Ryan.
Can we not start an HRC lawsuit against Catsella for telling bald faced lies? Oh wait.HRC's are lieberal.Nevermind.
I swear.If PMSH doesn't rein theses jackasses in soon,I'm voting commie next time.At least they can use my guns.
Vit
Zen Budism and science as a symbiosis is an intriguing combination.
I offer this:
Einstein had said:
Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world. He then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. He makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life in order to find in this way the peace and serenity which he cannot find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience. The supreme task is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction. There is no logical path to these laws; only intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of experience, can reach them ...
Syncro
Agreed, Syncro, or as Einstein also said, "Any man who
can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not
giving the kiss the attention it deserves".
Science, Philosophy and Common Sense....the man was a triple threat and apparently no stranger to danger.
Syncro
P.s. I am enjoying the saturday night lecture series, although I'm still catching up what with life interfering in my blogging reality.
That said, I'm pretty sure I'll get square before the wall of ice water hits.
An excellent column on a WSJ interview with Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123578347494598289.html
I grow more proud of him every day.
(via national newswatch)
Thanks, bluetech.
Newspapers
By David warren
Like so many who arrived in this "profession" of newspapering -- whether accidentally or on purpose -- I suffered from an early and irrational attraction to newspapers as physical objects. From about the age of six or seven, when the newspapers at hand happened to be the Pakistan Times and various Urdu-language journals seen at streetside kiosks in Lahore, I wanted to touch them, and turn the pages, and see the pictures, and read whatever I could. More at:
http://www.davidwarrenonline.com/
The United Arab Emigrates are all in a rage about an Israeli cartoon on youtube Ahmed and Salin
Romantic revelations of an ink stained wretch aside...the vast majority of classically trained journalists have resorted to op/ed effluvia rather than reporting the facts.
For this...and this alone they will perish.
Syncro
Largs
Shades of Khadr.
Syncro
Largs: Funny. Israeli South Park?
Interesting video. He begins with "So, I guess this is as a result of globalization that you can see a Buddhist monk in Montreal."
He knows better. The Liú Sòng Dynasty had a particularly protectionist trade policy at the time the "blue eyed barbarian" Bodhidharma travelled to China to introduce Buddhism.
Two millenia before David Ricardo first elucidated comparative advantage, Buddhist monks were spreading the dhamma far and wide, eventually even penetrating notoriously xenophobic Japan. When King Trisong Detsen made Buddhism the state religion of Tibet in the 8th century he invited Indian scholars to Tibet to propagate the dhamma - long before the globe was even considered to be a globe.
Incidentally, Zen Buddhism developed as a reaction to what we would call today xenophobia. In India, Buddhist monks were forbidden to eat food that they didn't beg for (an ingenious check on the power of the clergy). That simply wasn't going to play in China - imagine a bunch of hippy Indians running around late antiquity China with beggar bowls. They had to work for their rice, and so the Zen tradition was born.
The first Buddhist temple in Canada was built in 1905, and Buddhists have been in Canada, as is well known, since the 19th century, where many were hired to build the railroad. Meaning that Buddhism was first introduced to Canada not as a result of globalization, but as a direct result of a nationalist trade policy.
It might further be argued that it is due to conservatism that he made his way to Montreal. Buddhist monks are traditionally forbidden from marrying. During the Tokugawa shogunate monks were encouraged by the state to marry in a deliberate effort to weaken Buddhism. Ask a married guy how his wife feels about him spending a week, alone, in Montreal :-)
The opening quote obviously rubbed me the wrong way. A transnational progressivist suggesting that prior to teh awesomeness of transnational progressivism Canada was a dull, dimwitted, ignorant, racist backwater, wholly devoid of people with strange, strange names, and we are just sooooooo fortunate to have such enlightened transnational progressivists grace us with their presence, all thanks to globalization. Blech.
Loved the movie Taken despite the many improbabilities (including Albanians some of whom speak French speaking English to Liam Neeson impersonating a French police inspector sans accent).The ex-Cia agent pulls out all the stops to get back his daughter who has been kidnapped by 'white slavers'.
I loved the line that was cut off when Neeson shoots dead one of the Arab customers: "Let's nego(tiate)". Also another protests that selling his daughter was nothing personal, only business and Neeson replys that for him it was only personal and shoots him.
largs - LMAO!! Its a must-see.
Algorithm discovered: if you have no data, mann-ufacture data.
"expectation maximization (EM)" = The end justifies the means.
"One of the more difficult concepts is RegEM, an algorithm developed by Tapio Schneider in 2001. It’s a form of expectation maximization (EM) which is a common and well understood method for infilling missing data."
"Steig’s office has so far deferred (several requests) to provide the complete data sets needed to replicate and test his paper,"
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"Steig’s Antarctic Heartburn
Foreword by Anthony Watts: This article, written by the two Jeffs (Jeff C and Jeff Id) is one of the more technically complex essays ever presented on WUWT. It has been several days in the making. One of the goals I have with WUWT is to make sometimes difficult to understand science understandable to a wider audience. In this case the statistical analysis is rather difficult for the layman to comprehend, but I asked for (and got) an essay that was explained in terms I think many can grasp and understand. That being said, it is a long article, and you may have to read it more than once to fully grasp what has been presented here. Steve McIntyre of Climate Audit laid much of the ground work for this essay, and from his work as well as this essay, it is becoming clearer that Steig et al (see “Warming of the Antarctic ice-sheet surface since the 1957 International Geophysical Year”, Nature, Jan 22, 2009) isn’t holding up well to rigorous tests as demonstrated by McItyre as well as in the essay below. Unfortunately, Steig’s office has so far deferred (several requests) to provide the complete data sets needed to replicate and test his paper, and has left on a trip to Antarctica and the remaining data is not “expected” to be available until his return."
http://tinyurl.com/bepex2 (wattsup)
"But if she got that worked up over a few people calling Obama’s socialist policies by name, imagine what she will say about the title of this column?"
"Which brings us to this point: This week President Obama exercised for the first time a policy decision that shares a trait held in common with Adolf Hitler.".
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"Obama as Hitler
This week in a bold move the President broke a barrier that his supporters should be quite concerned about. For in doing so he has broken a barrier that should always be seen as sacred. However, this will likely be marginalized by the leftist media that offers it’s blind support regardless of any mastery of facts.
Case and point... Rachel Maddow.
She is MSNBC's less funny and perhaps more butch version of Keith Olbermann. And on this past Friday night she did an entire "bit" on anyone who would compare Obama's policies to socialism as "not very serious people.""
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2196618/posts
Cross post from another--and wrong--thread:
I heard Iggy on the CBC—I listen to the choral music!—and he made my skin crawl. What a charlatan—and absolutely full of himself.
He’s cottoned on to the deficit and is, disingenuously, up in arms that the CPC has now left the country with a—gasp!—deficit after the goody two shoes Liberals left a hefty surplus.
A short list of cavils: I know that the Liberals padded the surplus by various sleights of hand. I know that we’re caught in the Freddie/Fannie mess (and having a Marxist POTUS next door, who’s spending like he’s just won the lottery—and Iggy’s making nice with HIM!). I know that the Liberals OWE the Canadian taxpayers $40 million. And I also know that our present deficit would look like loose change, compared to the profligacy we’d have seen from the Coalition. Of course, Iggy conveniently overlooks these anomalies.
He also says he WILL NOT be treated by the CPC the way Dion was—so stop being a duplicitous idiot—and that he’s going to prepare a report card on the CPC. What an insufferable prig! And he sounds it. I just hope the Canadian public has the sense—that’s a tall order—to discern this.
Changing the subject: I was sickened by the lack of due diligence re the couple from Quebec lost while skiing. A whole chain of people ignored the obvious cry for help—the stakes being life or death. Get ready, folks. IMO, the entitled, me-me-me attitude, the lack of curiosity and accountability, as well as the passivity being instilled in Canadians have everything to do with this tragedy.
The Second Commandment, “Love thy neighbour as thyself”, translated into “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” is as dead as the dodo in the West. (There are exceptions, but they’re just that—exceptions.) I remember a time when things were different—before we turned our backs on God, with the resulting atomization of the individual that our technology and the “rights” industry has spawned.
Full circle: a central theme of Iggy’s estimable uncle, the philosopher and pro-life advocate, George Grant, was the—deleterious—effect of technology on our sense of connectedness to one another and, as a result, our ethics. Is it any wonder, in a society where the abortion “right” has become sacrosanct and where individual whims trump the good of the community as a whole, that life is cheap?
It seems that Marie-Josee Fortin was a double victim of our Brave New World: not only did the community ignore the clear calls for help from her husband, it seems that the couple, in true, do-my-own-thing mode, were skiing in an out-of-bounds area. Kyrie eleison.
Marie-Josee, RIP.
"Joe The Plumber: Obama Policies Lead To Socialism
He speaks with CNSNews.com"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2196654/posts
No more posts re Dinosaur MSM, eh? Solly ... Can't resist posting this. It's a case study of irony.
MSM is like a staggering sotted drunk/drug addict, collapsing/imploding, as did the Soviet Union, under the weight of its internal contradictions.
""Most of the wounds are self-inflicted," says Phil Bronstein, editor at large" = suicide.
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"Under Weight of Its Mistakes, Newspaper Industry Staggers
Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper recalls getting "a feeling in the pit of my stomach" when he learned that the Rocky Mountain News was shutting down. "Even when they were uncovering corruption in the city, even when they were embarrassing us or causing us discomfort, they were making the city better," he says. "It's a huge loss."
The grim echoes of the nearly 150-year-old paper's demise Friday could be heard in newsrooms and communities across the country. Although the Denver Post will still cover Hickenlooper's region, some cities -- most notably San Francisco -- are facing the prospect of life without a major newspaper. Others, from Philadelphia to Chicago to Minneapolis, have watched their papers slide into bankruptcy, while still others are being served by dailies with newsrooms that have shriveled by half.
Why a once-profitable industry suddenly seems as outmoded as America's automakers is a tale that involves arrogance, mistakes, eroding trust and the rise of a digital world in which newspapers feel compelled to give away their content.
"Most of the wounds are self-inflicted," says Phil Bronstein, editor at large of the San Francisco Chronicle, which Hearst Corp. has threatened to close unless major cost savings are achieved or a buyer is found. Rather than engage the audience, he says, "the public was seen as kind of messy and icky and not something you needed to get involved with."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2196652/posts
(ScrOll dOwn fOr the MSM's pOster bOy.)
I see where Palestinian militants have lobbed some 110 rockets into Israel since the latter pulled out of Gaza. Where are Sid Ryan and his CUPE useful idiots when you need a good demonstration against terrorist agression? Where is Jack Layton and Jimmy Carter?
Israel is not going to tolerate this for long. There will be another showdown in Gaza and this time I fear it will be a "fight to the finish".
Israel should have taken the "fight to the finish" a long time ago.
"Prodigal son (How the son of a Hamas leader converted to Christianity)
CALIFORNIA - A moment before beginning his dinner, Masab, son of West Bank Hamas leader Sheikh Hassan Yousef, glances at the friend who has accompanied him to the restaurant where we met. They whisper a few words and then say grace, thanking God and Jesus for putting food on their plates.
It takes a few seconds to digest this sight: The son of a Hamas MP who is also the most popular figure in that extremist Islamic organization in the West Bank, a young man who assisted his father for years in his political activities, has become a rank-and-file Christian. A few seconds later, he is savoring his meal, explaining that he hasn't been eating much recently because of financial problems. During the past week he has been living with the friend, a Christian, of course, whom he met at church. "Without him," he says, "I would have become homeless."
The younger Yousef is well aware of the implications of this interview, and how it will likely offend his family, as well as of the slim chance that he will be able to return to Ramallah one day. But apparently he is on a crusade of his own. "I know that I'm endangering my life and am even liable to lose my father, but I hope that he'll understand this and that God will give him and my family the patience and willingness to open their eyes to Jesus and to Christianity. Maybe one day I'll be able to return to Palestine and to Ramallah together with Jesus, in the Kingdom of God."
"Here's how he converted :
It began about eight years ago. I was in Jerusalem and ..."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2196715/posts
Margolis eats O-shreddies for breakfast.
Develops ODS=BDS.
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"Keep your word about withdrawing from Iraq. Enough with the Bush doubletalk."
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"U.S. influence in Iraq far from over"
http://tinyurl.com/bn6xh9
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article5821963.ece
Obama buries Reaganomics under $3.6 trillion mountain
The president has killed off the idea of small government with a vast schedule of tax and spend to combat recession
Reich told The Sunday Times: “It is the boldest budget we have seen since the Reagan administration, and drives a nail in the coffin of Reaganomics. We can basically say goodbye to the philosophy espoused by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher.”
Obama’s $3.6 trillion budget proposal includes $770 billion in tax cuts over 10 years for the “middle class”, America’s term for everyone from the moderately well-off to the working poor; $150 billion for funding “green” energy sources, and $634 billion towards the introduction of universal healthcare.
The numbers are almost beyond the power of imagination, but it is clear somebody will have to pick up the bill. A hefty $1 trillion or so will come from new taxes on the rich, paid for by families earning over $250,000 a year, increases in capital gains tax and limits on America’s generous tax deductions, including those for charitable contributions.
An extra $80 billion a year is predicted to come from auctioning off carbon permits under yet-to-be determined cap-and-trade legislation — if and when it actually happens.
None of this will be nearly enough to cover the gaping hole in America’s public finances. Even if the economy recovers at a clip over the next 10 years, America will still be running a deficit of 3% of GDP by 2019. The president’s daughters Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7, along with other members of their generation, are likely to emerge into adulthood saddled with debt.
The politics of “tax and spend” — or rather taxing the rich to spend on everyone else — is not only back in vogue, but has become an essential component of America’s economic recovery plan. Obama has seized on the “once in a generation” crisis to fulfil his campaign pledges on cutting taxes for lower wage earners, expanding education and health, and greening the economy with scant regard for the ballooning deficit — the largest, relative to the size of government, since the second world war.
Reagan once said: “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help’.” Obama has made just such a promise to restore America’s fortunes, and the rest of the world, including Britain, can only pray that it works.
“So the revolution has come,” one US commentator noted. “Now, will it bring a new égalité? Or will we simply lose our heads?”
Cheers
Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
Frankenstein Battalion
2nd Squadron: Ulanen-(Lancers) Regiment Großherzog Friedrich von
Baden(Rheinisches) Nr.7(Saarbrucken)
Knecht Rupprecht Division
Hans Corps
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group "True North"
(PDF warning) Julian D. Alford and Scott A. Cuomo, Operational Design for ISAF in Afghanistan: A Primer
Afghanistan is at a tipping point, and the next 12 to 18 months will prove decisive in determining the country’s future....
Counterinsurgency operations in Afghanistan have to involve a great deal more than fighting insurgents. They must also include combating terrorists, criminals, warlords, and drug lords; mitigating sectarian and inter- and intratribal conflict; and curtailing government corruption while building governmental capacity and setting the conditions for reconstruction and development...
(PDF warning) James G. Lacey and David L. Asher, Finance and Power
A critical challenge for the new administration will be to reassert American leadership in the international economy and rebuild America’s financial health. Economic strength has underpinned the national power and influence of every state in history. Economic strength, in turn, is driven by a strong financial system capable of raising large amounts of capital and efficiently deploying it. No nation has long maintained its strategic or military dominance after it has ceased to be the world’s foremost financial center. If a nation allows its financial system to weaken, it undermines its economic strength, and by extension its ability to project its power and influence into the larger world...
Read all about the "cocky insouciance"* and "Eric".
Beware of the cat-scratch itch.
Be sure to have a barfpail/baggy near your terminal.
STOPIGGYBarf from the TORedStar.
*http://tinyurl.com/ah9dmr
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"The Ignatieffs read to each other from a new edition of War and Peace over Christmas, when she was having problems with her eyes.
And she's crazy about cats, Burmese cats. Mimi, a four-month-old sable fuzz ball with amber eyes and cocky insouciance (named for Zsohar's first adored Burmese), will soon take up residence at Stornoway. As will Mimi's as-yet-unborn male sibling, Eric (after the first Eric the cat in London)."
http://tinyurl.com/ah9dmr
Francis Slakey and Ben Tannenbaum, What About The Nukes?
The United States’ thousands of nuclear warheads have the explosive equivalent of over 1 gigaton of TNT. It’s an amount of energy that could literally move mountains, reroute rivers, alter climate, and result in the deaths of hundreds of millions or even billions of people, through fire, radiation, and starvation.
Like everything else on Earth, those warheads are getting older. But unlike anything else on Earth, that mere aging may have profound consequences for the national security of the United States...
Hans Rupprecht at March 1, 2009 12:44 PM
After reading your linked article earlier today, it suddenly hit me that Obama is engaging in the Mother of all Cloward-Piven strategies.
It's seems a bit extreme to suggest that he is delibertately trying to destroy the American economy, but I think it is no exaggeration to suggest that he is. Everything about Obama's biography points to his white hot hatred of America.
The Liberal Party is campaigning, now, for a possible June election. They are using their outlets, the Toronto Star and the CBC...unpaid by the Liberal Party, and paid for by the taxpayer.
They are presenting Ignatieff as 'friendly, kind, etc etc. Now, at present, they can only appeal to the Liberal base, which are the elite class - the government paid professions of: academia, civil service, health care etc..in the cities.
How will they appeal to the mainstream Canadians?
Socialism is a debaucher of children, a pedophile.
STOPIGGY.
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"Ignatieff says Liberals committed to national daycare
Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff stopped at a Halifax daycare centre to underscore his party's commitment to a national early learning and child care strategy" (nnw)
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"Chavez touts socialism to Venezuela kids - USATODAY.com
Hugo Chavez on Sunday urged kids to embrace socialism, raising the ire of educators and parents who turned back the Venezuelan president's earlier proposal ...
www.usatoday.com/news/topstories/2008-07-20-2695240317_x.htm"
Reading 'War and Peace' to each other at Christmas time,the common touch, I'm sure that will resonate with the Ontario autoworkers. After reading the article,BTW they did not publish my comment,I realized how far removed Iggy is from us regular folk who might occasionally wear a python boot...He is an intellectual snob,dual citizen who has spent most of his adult life outside of Canada. His wife and most trusted advisor is a landed immigrant and socialite,who has spent about 4 years in Canada,which is a year more than Mikey's political career. This is the liberal dream team,good luck selling that to Joe six-pack...On the bright side,cbc may be able to turn this into a TV series.Cast McCallum as Mr. Haney,Dion as Eb,add a few others,Lizzie would make a great county agent,and presto,a Canadian remake of Green Acres.
AssPress musters 7 hacks for this essay.
There is discord in the Garden of O. Hope has been evicted by her little sister, Fear. Hope has been scapegoated; cast out into the wilderness.
Is ODS really BDS? Is BDS really ODS?
"Some Obama supporters are nervous.".
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"Associated Press writers Devlin Barrett, Matt Apuzzo, Phil Elliott, Matt Daly, Dina Cappiello and Lauren Neergaard contributed to this report."
"Amidst a sea of change, plenty more of the same
By NANCY BENAC - Associated Press Writer"
http://tinyurl.com/azxw7v
I see where the Road To Dhamma went into the ditch on the first turn. Matthieu said Monterey, not Montreal. Always looking for trouble, always finding it. No wonder you're not happy. Oh well, thanks for playing, anyway ;-)
Non-profit newspapers/radio/tv/MSM of yesterday and today:
Pravda, Xinhua Daily, Volkischer Beobachter, NYSlimes, Rocky Mountain News, BBC, and Canada's CBC, etc.
"Welcome to the macropocalypse."
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"Idea of non-profit newspapers floated
Radical move could save industry and its vital role in a democracy
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — As sharp revenue reductions put the future of many U.S. newspapers in doubt, one idea gaining attention is the conversion of newspapers into tax-exempt non-profits supported by large endowments.
Although viewed by many as a long shot at best, such a radical change could be a saviour for the industry and its vital role in a democracy.
That's why the endowment model is drawing renewed attention as newspapers impose massive layoffs, scale back home delivery and make other drastic cuts to counter plunging advertising revenue amid a recession that has compounded struggles from the migration of readers to the Internet.
David Swensen, who managed one of the world's largest endowments as chief investment officer at Yale University, said endowments ``would enhance newspapers' autonomy while shielding them from the economic forces that are now tearing them down.''
``By endowing our most valued sources of news we would free them from the strictures of an obsolete business model and offer them a permanent place in society, like that of America's colleges and universities,'' he wrote in a recent opinion piece in the New York Times.
But first, the idea must overcome skepticism from the very newspapers that stand to benefit. Critics say endowments also could beholden newspapers to their large donors, and giving newspapers tax-exempt status could restrict them from endorsing candidates and running editorials on pending legislation. "
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/9010918.html
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"When Business Is Funded by Government
The Gotham Gal opened the NY Times (NYT) this morning and she says to me, "Didn't we just put money into Citibank (C)?". The we being all of us taxpayers here in the US.
I said, "Yes, a couple times I think". And then she got upset. Because there at the bottom of the NY Times is a big advertisement for Citibank (see the photo above).
She went on. "We are paying for that ad. In a newspaper that less and less people read every day. No wonder they are in trouble".
There's something poetic, ironic, and iconic about that ad at the bottom of the NY Times today. It sums up so much of what we are all seeing and feeling these days.
Old school companies sticking to old school approaches that don't work anymore. All the while, new companies with new approaches are succeeding and even thriving. Welcome to the macropocalypse.
But there's a bigger issue here. Bob Lefsetz talked about it in his post last night about Sheryl Crow and Maureen Dowd."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2196844/posts
And to go along with the non-profit newspapers we would of course give them a new language to use - Newspeak.
Panoramic shots of the Hadron Collider. Kinda neat but I had trouble wiring my home entertainment.
http://petermccready.com/portfolio/08082001.html
From the linked page, Cloward-Piven strategy: Strategy for forcing political change through orchestrated crisis
First proposed in 1966 and named after Columbia University sociologists Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, the “Cloward-Piven Strategy” seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.
Isn't this the leftie equivalent of Naomi Klein's alleged "Shock Doctrine"?