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Posted in Jes's Thoughts, Uncategorized on Feb 27th, 2009
Ever heard the phrase “the art of conversation.” To me, that seems like a title for a self-help book on having great interviews, something businessy and dull. Or maybe some ladies journal from the 17th century for “catching oneself a husband by improving one’s wit.” Regardless, the phrase doesn’t strike me as something necessarily positive [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 24th, 2009
The idea of keeping immigrants out of our country is starting to seem outdated. In many cases we need them more than they need us. Obviously you can’t let people cross borders all willy-nilly, but the immigration policy in the United States seems a hodgepodge. I say this not because I have studied our immigration [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 20th, 2009
Democracy requires a healthy news media to keep it in check. A healthy news media requires money to pay its top reporters to go investigate stories. The Internet is sucking money away from TV news organizations and traditional newspapers and news magazines.
Unfortunately the free news distributed on the Internet doesn’t make much revenue for any [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 18th, 2009
Someday, when almost everyone is connected to almost everyone else via the Internet, I would argue that humans will have evolved into a single collective organism for all practical purposes. It would be much like the way individual cells of your body are united as one human.
Sure, humans aren’t physically connected to each other, but [...]
Posted in Creative ramblings on Feb 10th, 2009
Our government is preparing to pass something called a stimulus package. According to the experts, this stimulus package won’t directly stimulate much of anything in the short term, when we need it. But with any luck it will bamboozle a hundred million morons into thinking their government did something useful, and that in turn will [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 8th, 2009
Isn’t it funny how we can forget about things like winter thawing into spring? This morning, I heard our noisy crow chorus joined by a few springy birds as I was sitting on my couch. Ice piles in our parking lot are melting, which means that I’ll be able to park on the street near [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 6th, 2009
Talkabout your favorable media coverage, check out this photo of Obama standing in front of, I assume, the Presidential Seal. It looks like he is glowing.
http://news.aol.com/?feature=329973
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