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Government should be counter-cyclic to the Main Street marketplace

January 6, 2009

I was listening to NPR on WMUB this morning about the freshman Ohio senators starting their terms and how hard their jobs will be dealing with the State having a $1.9 billion budget deficit, GM, Delphi, DHL and other large companies pulling out of Ohio and various other things.
Many of the in-coming senators went [...]

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Google with a face

November 13, 2008

This, I just have to share!

Posted by email from rufus’s posterous

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Averaging averages

May 19, 2008

Spend a weekend watching the news on TV. I did and here is what I conclude.

News anchors are really, really stupid and shallow people.
No news we like means we’ll just make up news
There can only be 3-5 news stories on TV at any one time, REGARDLESS of how many news channels you have in your [...]

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Appeasing the under-educated white guy

May 18, 2008

Since Hillary’s win in North Carolina last Tuesday, the “news cycle” has been all about how Barack Obama is going to get the “under-educated, white man” vote. After watching news story after news story on this, a very large question suddenly dawned on me:
When did this country get to the point where the under-educated, white [...]

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Party? What party?

May 5, 2008

I was settling in and almost asleep when some idiot on CNN was railing on and on about how this Clinton/Obama race is tearing the party apart, that it is bad for the Democrats, that they need to heal together to win the election in November. And, then as I hit that level of rage [...]

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Anna Nichole Smith Confusion

February 9, 2007

I am confused. Is ANS a national hero? Has she solved world peace or bombed a sovereign nation? Has she cured cancer? What has this woman done except posed in Playboy, married a billionaire, made a reality show on E! and flashed everyone in Australia? Given the INCREDIBLE amount of coverage on ALL the networks, [...]

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