One of the coolest things about Ben Franklin was how he floated on his back while flying a kite and let the wind take him ( Read more... )

Finally got around to assembling a video for a song I made about three years ago. This is now dedicated to Bob Dylan, cause the Chinese government forced him to stop touring there.

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It's fine with me if Jesus was really just walking on ice, cause walking on ice isn't easy. Beliefs are easy.

The NY Times is no longer taking comments about their article concerning AIG bonuses. I went to the trouble of actually signing in after about five years and came to find out I can't comment anyways. I guess they don't want the comment total to reflect people's true anger when it goes over 1000 entries of pissed offness ( Read more... )

I can't help it, but Martin Feldstein was compensated over a quarter of a million for sitting on the board of AIG in 2007. See Forbes profiles. I hope Obama kicks him off his economic board. This man needs to explain himself. Shame on you Marty! All your advertised "brilliance" in the economic sphere and you can't say anything about AIG? Why don't ( Read more... )

Curious minds are driven towards knowledge in the current crisis. This led me to the public library where I picked up some books about the fed, banking, and economic history. I was especially struck by the book: Fat Years and Lean Years by Bernard Nossiter. It is a concise history of economic policy by American presidents since the Great Depression ( Read more... )

It might be helpful in the present crisis to view capitalism like a game. This is not meant to minimize the suffering of those who are being affected the worst, so the nature of the game is indeed serious. But there is "cheating" in the present state of capitalism in the form of subsidies and bail outs. Of course this has been going on long before ( Read more... )

Amazing times we are living in. So suddenly many of those in congress understood the intricacies of the economy? This is giving socialism a bad name. It isn't socialism or what most people call socialism that is really a dictatorship. That 700 was socialism for the rich and corporations that were leveraged to the hilt. How can they say that when ( Read more... )

So I was looking at the label of my tequila bottle and it said: "Fundada" in a certain year. That is probably my favorite Spanish word at this moment, because it simultaneously reminds me of drinking and art movements ( Read more... )