He'd sign Paul Ryan's Medicare decimation, according to ABC News.
He now joins Trump and Gingrich as stumblers out of the gate. This virtually dooms his prospects for getting voted for by actual people with hands.
I'm not sure what the Republicans get out of this besides a grand flame-out show of ideology. Doesn't large pharma, at least, love the program, especially without any negotiations allowed on price? What fictitious, invisible people benefit? Who is lobbying for it?
The near-universal doubling down on this strategy actually baffles me. It doesn't seem to poll well even among the base.
26 May 2011
Computer error releases 450 violent offenders in California?
Computer error?
Reading down, it doesn't look like the "computer" had the full information on them to begin with. Tinfoil hats will assume this is a big hit-back against the Supreme Court ruling. Not ready to go there, but it makes you wonder what could be going on... ahem.
Reading down, it doesn't look like the "computer" had the full information on them to begin with. Tinfoil hats will assume this is a big hit-back against the Supreme Court ruling. Not ready to go there, but it makes you wonder what could be going on... ahem.
Mourning for demolition of history 35 Cooper Square
I was there yesterday. A rather somber gathering, and speakers vowing to preserve and landmark the rest of the Bowery, invoking its history.
Nice report here. Scroll down to see my hand holding an artwork sign showing the block before the bulldozers.
Sad we don't have a proper landmark review process in the city. I'm not for halting all development. In many cases, the historic sites can be integrated and repurposed. It's about keeping a sense of history and character, valuing what the past leaves us, not about stopping time.
We move toward a city that attracts people without keeping what attracted them here to begin with.
Nice report here. Scroll down to see my hand holding an artwork sign showing the block before the bulldozers.
Sad we don't have a proper landmark review process in the city. I'm not for halting all development. In many cases, the historic sites can be integrated and repurposed. It's about keeping a sense of history and character, valuing what the past leaves us, not about stopping time.
We move toward a city that attracts people without keeping what attracted them here to begin with.
25 May 2011
No end of the world in sight.
We all had a good laugh or twelve over the latest doomsday preacher last week. A fine May day failed to conjure much disaster beyond the usual volcano blast in Iceland.
And yet Hollywood recently birthed a movie about the other end of the world prediction, 2012, and all that. Why is that nonsense prognostication any different? Because it's based on the fact that the Maya counted. They counted obsessively. Therefore, based on the fact that they had a complicated calendar system, the world will therefore end when a cycle based on numbers ends?
Let's get this right. The Mayans were advanced, but no experts in plate tectonics. I suppose it's strangely comforting to have some final chapter for the messiness of human affairs. Of course, the earth will face fate in some billions of years, when the sun fails spectacularly, but don't expect me to stay up all night some winter eve in 2012. Fool me twice...
And yet Hollywood recently birthed a movie about the other end of the world prediction, 2012, and all that. Why is that nonsense prognostication any different? Because it's based on the fact that the Maya counted. They counted obsessively. Therefore, based on the fact that they had a complicated calendar system, the world will therefore end when a cycle based on numbers ends?
Let's get this right. The Mayans were advanced, but no experts in plate tectonics. I suppose it's strangely comforting to have some final chapter for the messiness of human affairs. Of course, the earth will face fate in some billions of years, when the sun fails spectacularly, but don't expect me to stay up all night some winter eve in 2012. Fool me twice...
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