8.31.2005

let me throw a stone

As deep as I hate stealing, what is the big deal with "looting"....People lost everything. Better think as what can be done to relieve those left exposed to the calamity. Someone needs to answer for this mismanagement.

in

8.30.2005

Selective targeting

I've seen it inspecting after Georges in the Dominican Republic.
The poorer the people the more likely to be ravaged by hurricanes.
in

8.25.2005

numa pompilius, tulius hostilius ...

I know all 12 caesars,even remembered four of the seven hills of Rome, three of the seven kings. Lucius Tarquinius Priscus For some reason this does not improve my crossword puzzle game...in

8.22.2005

Babel's tower or the bubble

Something that gets bigger and bigger up to the moment it bursts. Market bubble.

It might be that with the death of manufacturing and with cheap available [borrowed] money the American economy can live only out of bubbles.
What will be the next bubble? The innovators can invent only new bubbles.
How is this compatible with the immediate availability of information? Are people getting exciting over [bubbling over?] nothing, or knowingly trying to exploit schemes bordering on irrationality just to make a fast buck. Hoping they will not be caught the last ones holding the Joker.
At the same time there is another meaning germane to market bubble. Living in a bubble -like not aware of what the reality is. Like in Bush lives in a bubble- isolated [by a rubble wall?]
Etymology - Babel's tower was something raising higher and higher till Euler rules of stability took it down..
..In

8.21.2005

nonsense - free to post though

When politics cannot really affect your day to day - you might be living in a free place. When your individual actions can impact political decisions or discourse you live in a democracy.

bad habit

in
Politics is just a show. Something my one hundred year old aunt can still follow and be interested in.
As she is falling apart my aunt keeps current with world events...Just a bad habit

8.14.2005

almost kept me awake

I watch C-Span at night when I cannot sleep. The other night Hendrik Hertzberg of the New Yorker on our constitutional system - produced to protect the interests of slave owner states. Too much power to geography not to individual voters. Voters cannot chose specific political programs and change the government when those do not work. Malls in Ky, malls in Pa - Wal-mart everywhere.
This type of constitution never workewd when implemented in other places.

in
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8.11.2005

False science for a dubious culture

Krugman is close to being right. He forgets though the damage done by multiculturalism. Brooks does not forget this, but confuses unequal cultures with unequal prosperity.

in

finally, economic triumph

Today in the mail a brochure from the Graduate Center. The most expensive tuition is for athe course -Marx's Das Kapital


in

8.10.2005

keeping cool

Dry and pleasant air. Sunset over the Hudson. Sailboats passing by. The Hayden from my ipod overpowered by the noise coming from the police chopper protecting the peace.

in

8.09.2005

slobbery

Milk?
No
Sugar?
No
Napkins?
No, I have too many papers on my desk already...

8.08.2005

empty, tanks

Saturday, nine o'clock, coming back from LI to New York. Suddenly realized I was alone on the road. Panicked - where were the people? Something awful happened? Well, only the cars were missing...

8.01.2005

dog issues

if you want me to open up, to discuss my life...My dog hates me. Started to hate me several weeks ago. There are few things more depressing in then to be hated by your own dog. Against dog nature...