Those who criticized and ridiculed the Occupy Movement as something disorganized, unfocused and undisciplined are already getting a good dose of evidence to make them want to retract that statement through their help for the displaced by Super Storm Sandy and other charitable works. The cynics, however, might learn soon not to underestimate the power of the people through their latest venture. It goes without saying, I think, that there’s no revenge or getting back at the powers that be motive behind such projects—getting even is hardly hopeful or affirming and I think such objectives pull down the whole enterprise to the same sort of thinking, characterized by greed and insecurity, that got all of us in this mess to begin with.
Friday 9 November 2012
snowball
catagories: America, economic policy, labour
Wednesday 7 November 2012
forward
catagories: America, economic policy, environment, foreign policy, revolution
Tuesday 6 November 2012
ojos bien cerrados or pay no attention to that man behind the curtain
There a perfect cover for the meeting of finance ministers and reserve bank chiefs of the G20 nations going on in Mexico. One wonders about the timing of such things and though the meeting seems kind of formal and anodyne, one still cannot quite shake the feeling that important decisions are being vetted—the kind that governments cannot rely on democracy and openness to choose wisely. There is no rudeness, nor strategic advantage, I think, in not waiting for the outcome of the US elections, even though neither of these events went unplanned or were scheduled in a vacuum.
catagories: ๐, America, economic policy, Europe, foreign policy
Monday 5 November 2012
syncretism or give me that old time religion
Though my vote would be for the “black Muslim,” it’s remarkable, I think, that politeness and discretion and tolerance flag in such an asymmetrical fashion. One’s personal beliefs and convictions are important indicators of official deportment and ought to be afforded with respect, regardless of pedigree. Such a big schism erupted over the Kennedy presidency, the one and only Catholic office-holder (though there is an unlikely union between the challengers, and we will see what happens with that), and there’s this strange cauldron of questions and assumptions about the incumbent that’s bewitching to a large part of the voting-public—and though maybe assumptions and prejudice are already cemented in regards to the challenger candidate’s affiliation and confession, that there’s little talk of it is still rather incredulous.
catagories: America, foreign policy, lifestyle, religion
Friday 26 October 2012
gestalt
catagories: America, economic policy, foreign policy, graphic design
Wednesday 10 October 2012
swimlanes
catagories: America, graphic design, language, philosophy, technology and innovation
Thursday 20 September 2012
polity
catagories: America, foreign policy, labour
Thursday 6 September 2012
doctor pangloss, I presume
The ever engrossing and a sure bet for a good take-away to ruminate on, Boing Boing, recently presented two brief and chilling tracts about the echo chamber of communication and some dismal reflections on the realities draped by economic cheerleading. Boy, this was some bleak stuff, presented in a way that was hard to refute or not be disheartened.
catagories: America, economic policy, labour, networking and blogging, philosophy, revolution
Saturday 11 August 2012
eurotrashing or the columbian union
catagories: ๐ช๐บ, America, foreign policy, graphic design, transportation
Tuesday 17 July 2012
don’t let it rest on the president’s desk
catagories: America, graphic design
Friday 6 July 2012
instructions to applicant
Thursday 14 June 2012
as seen on tv
catagories: America, graphic design, health and medicine, lifestyle
Thursday 7 June 2012
overseas telegram
Here’s a bit of typically nannying that strikes me like those Friday afternoon conscientious bureaucrat emergencies that necessarily wait until just before quitting-time and the weekend because to be unburdened and shared freely because it took the problem-holder all week to perfect it:
Wednesday 30 May 2012
bootstrap or birthright
Wednesday 23 May 2012
chinese fire-drill
Cornered with prospects of more market bubbles (a dot-com bust redux of 1999 and 2008 after a less than stellar performance of a networking platform that’s only, but, not merely, the sum of its user-generated antics), aspersions are quick to be cast out, like so many throwing-stars and there are the usual targets, scapegoats.
catagories: America, economic policy, labour
Monday 21 May 2012
sock puppet or propagaะda
catagories: ๐ง , America, foreign policy, language
Thursday 17 May 2012
serfdom or golden thread
catagories: America, economic policy, foreign policy, labour, lifestyle, networking and blogging
Monday 7 May 2012
ways and means or checks and balances
catagories: America, foreign policy
Wednesday 18 April 2012
three-letter initialism
catagories: America, economic policy, foreign policy, transportation, travel