Here’s mine. Hope and Change have been monopolized and bastardized, so I figured I’d take a different angle. Vote for me, and I promise you’ll have plenty of fodder for second guessing and criticism.
Author: Scott (Page 65 of 80)
Amazon has released June’s set of 50 albums for $5 each
But…
I’ve been listening to a lot of alt country (or as I call it, real country) lately…here’s some good stuff you can preview in the widget.
S.C. Supreme Court orders governor to apply for stimulus money.
The court voted 5-0, with Justice Costa Pleicones concurring in a separate opinion, that the General Assembly had the authority in passing the state budget to order Sanford to apply for the money.
Just for giggles, it would be interesting to see what would happen to him if he still refused. The worst case scenario is that he’d be an automatic front runner for the GOP nomination in 2012.
Yeah, that’s pretty bad, but still…
@svandyke pointed out this literal version of Total Eclipse of the Heart. It made me laugh. He also sent me the second video a while back of the misheard lyrics to Pearl Jam’s Yellow Ledbetter. Sorry I’m slipping and didn’t post it earlier.
You’re welcomed.
From No Silence Here.
Blogging is often cited in the obits of newspapers. Twittering is often cited in the obits of blogs. And now I’m hearing Facebook and MySpace cited as the killers of Twitter. Some soon-to-be freshmen in high school told me last week they’re not on blogs or Twitter. They’re strictly Facebook or MySpace.
And just wait for Wave to ramp up. I think it may eventually kill email, along with marginalizing all of these other communication tools. Ok, “kill” may be a strong word, but the future of communication definitely lies in a One-Stop-Shop, real time type of communication instead of these various distributed and semi-connected tools we’re using now.
In the future, every communication tool will be useful for 15 minutes.
From the Liberty Papers
Education is not one-size-fits-all. We need to stop pretending that we can make it so.
The same goes for healthcare.
It all boils down to choice, choice, choice. I wonder how many people would be mad if they all of a sudden only had one or two soft drinks to choose from. I bet we’d see some action on that issue!
Of course, there’s much more to the post, but that pretty much sums it up.
American capitalism gone with a whimper – Pravda.Ru.
First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas then the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their “right” to choke down a McDonalds burger or a BurgerKing burger than for their constitutional rights.
That truth. It do hurt.
Why am I just now seeing this? Who is responsible?
I’ve linked to this Seth Godin post about meeting efficiently before, but it was probably on Twitter. Here’s more than 140 characters worth…
I’ve noticed a typical script most meetings follow:
- Lots of time spent waiting on people to arrive
- Meeting then starts with people absent anyway
- Issues are identified and discussed relatively quickly by the folks who were on time
- Someone shows up late, and they inevitably want to rehash the issues that have been identified and discussed while they weren’t there.
- Issues beyond the scope of the meeting are raised, usually by one of the people who was late.
- At least one person feels the need to continue the meeting for the entirety of its scheduled time with “filler” material.
It all pays the same to me–just some things I’ve noticed over the last 15 years or so. What is strange is that this seems to be a relatively predictable situation, yet there haven’t been many attempts to correct it or make it more efficient.
Maybe if a fist fight or sumo wrestling match were scheduled to begin on time at the beginning and end of every meeting people would be anxious to get their on time and get the meeting over with as soon as possible?
I don’t know what the answer is, I’m just throwing ideas out there.
Head over to The Liberty Papers for a great explanation of inflation and what you may be able to do about it.
Quick synopsis:
- Higher prices are a result of inflation. The inflating occurs when the money is printed.
- Inflation has a trickle down effect…sort of like sewage. Those who are close to the money when it is printed, (for instance, people who get paid to build roads through the Stimulus plan) get to buy materials before prices rise, those who are further down the money food chain pay high prices.
- If you think you are poor and oppressed now, just wait.
The primary misconception of inflation is that it merely is the rise in prices. The news media encourages people to believe this, reporting the inflation rate in the same way it reports on changes in the weather, as if it is some natural phenomenon over which people have no control.
Definitely worth your time to read the entire article.
For Knoxville peeps, my friend Jen has a $50 gift certificate to the new Earth Fare store in Bearden to give away.
in celebration of the opening of their new Knoxville store on June 17th, Earth Fare gave me a $50.00 gift card to give away! Yeah, very cool. They just said, hey Jen – give this away for us.
All you have to do is leave a comment telling her why you’d like to win it.
I’m a little surprised this article on suburban survivalists doesn’t mention bullets at all.
“There’s so many people who are concerned about the economy that there’s a huge interest in preparedness, and it pretty much crosses all lines, social, economic, political and religious,” he said. “There’s a steep learning curve going on right now.”
It’s nice to have canned food and a generator, but veggies taste much better when they are a side item. If you are a serious suburban survivalist, it seems like you’d be stocking up on ammunition as well.
While you can still buy it.
Here’s a great post on How to Find Bugs in Giant Software Programs. Next week…how to find out how to use giant software programs.