Category Archives: Economy

One Other Thing…

3/13/2009 – 2:54 pm

Like many others, I think the Jon Stewart-Jim Cramer colloquy on The Daily Show was a great, straightforward explication of some of the issues that have caused the recent financial havoc in the financial markets and more important, how the screaming heads on tee vee threw fuel (by which I mean, our retirement funds) on […]

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News to Me

3/5/2009 – 12:06 pm

All politics is local. So is news. The news need not be geographically local, but if the events have a direct effect on my life, then I consider them to be newsworthy. For months, we’ve read about the economic crisis and how Wall Street money masters screwed everything to a fair-thee-well, then took taxpayer money, […]

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The City Within

2/26/2009 – 2:47 pm

Before his execution, Socrates was visited in prison by his friend Crito, who told him the bribes for the guards were ready and Socrates could escape whenever he wished. Socrates refused to go. Crito, angered, argued Socrates would a) leave his children orphans and b) bring shame on his friends, because people would assume they […]

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Everything Converges

2/12/2009 – 1:52 pm

I’m in Rochester, New York, my hometown, today. I don’t get here much and it’s been a while since I last visited. I can still find my way around, more or less. I have the experience common to ghosts when I look for things where I expect them to be and see they’ve been replaced […]

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Does Not a Tibetan Bleed?

12/4/2008 – 12:26 pm

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has accomplished a difficult task since taking office 18 months ago: he’s made me miss Tony Blair. Mr. Blair was George W. Bush’s lapdog on foreign policy and when he left office, I thought anyone had to be better. Mr. Brown had a promising start, putting some distance between the […]

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What We are About to Receive

11/27/2008 – 11:22 am

Happy Thanksgiving. Today is the day for which gratitude was made. I don’t mean that in a traditional sense, in that the last Thursday of November has rolled around. I mean that in the sense that this day, the 27th of November 2008, is a day for which gratitude was made. There are several reasons […]

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Return to Normal

10/30/2008 – 11:52 am

It’s cold again. The furnace kicked on again this week, although we still wear sweaters in the house. The storm windows are up and the first snow storm of the year just missed us. The Adirondack Mountains to the west and the Green Mountains to the east both got hit Tuesday, but here the valley; […]

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