This post is the outcome of an impromptu decision to do some online coursework. The assignment is the final project for Dale Carrico’s course Thinking What We Are Doing. The reading list for the course is here. The instructions for this assignment are here. constraints restraints tactics 25. commons The public, and the need to…

At least twice during Thom Hartmann’s show today, the a few seconds of the theme music, if you will, of the Workers’ Independent News (WIN) broadcasts were clearly audible at various points of the broadcast. If I were paranoid I’d say the traffic managers at Clear Channel station WDTW were deliberately allowing these snippets of…

“In a Grand Rapids Press interview Betsy DeVos said, ‘We just viewed this as a really powerful way to leverage creative talents for the benefit and enjoyment of all of us.’ Do we as artists want a future where we are looked at as primarily entrepreneurs? A world where creativity becomes something more valuable when…

“When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: ‘Whose?’”—Don Marquis, quoted by Jack Saturday “Remember kids, you can’t have crucifixion without fiction!”—CultOfDusty “If we can’t make a dime on the street, will Big Brother leave us alone if we just putz putz around in our own backyard? Not so…

Big Phone and Big Cable know that about 1% of the people out there, like you and me, are in the bottom percentile among movie/TV viewers. For this segment, so much for their so-called Triple Play. The introduction of VoIP makes it so internet access is equivalent to home phone plus internet access. Now all…

I’ve long been an advocate of replacing the word ‘immigration’ with ‘migration’ in popular discourse, and the blog entry US Emigration Rates… at Blended Purple illustrates one example of why; namely the ‘brain drain’ factor. Nobody thought Ireland would go from emigration central to immigration central. It’s hardly inconceivable that the United States can’t flip…

Sometimes I wonder whether I should be using and promoting ClustrMaps, given that about 90% of their ad sponsorship is from far-right websites, but it’s pretty useful for something free-as-in-beer. The following ClustrMaps ad grabbed my attention: Unsustainable Pensions Many government pensions are out of control. Learn more & take action! www.TheFreeEnterpriseNation.org I couldn’t help…

The trouble with the idea of “free markets,” including the idea of free markets, is that the market finds a price for everything, including people. The trouble with the idea of “self ownership” is that it sets a precedent for the self as ownable. Particularly, if property rights include the right of transfer, and self…

The following is my comment on Best and Worst Jobs for Aspergers Adults at My Asptergers Child. As has become habitual for me, it resulted in a Google     Error   Request-URI Too Large The requested URL /comment.g… is too large to process. ===========8

“Who would have thought that it would be easier to produce by toil and skill all the most necessary or desirable commodities than it is to find consumers for them?”—Winston Churchill, quoted by Jack Saturday “When you vote for a centre-right candidate to keep a right-wing candidate from getting in, you help move the centre…