I Decided. Have You?

After thinking about it a great deal I’ve decided who will get my vote on “Super Tuesday”. Barack Obama. I don’t appreciate the direction that the Clinton campaign has taken lately and as much as parts of what John Edwards says appeal to me I don’t consider his campaign to have a realistic chance at [...]

Health Care Needs More

I like the essence of Senator Obama’s health care ideas but I think we just need to go farther. Comparisons to the system in Canada and Great Britain are always made by conservatives but they ignore other countries that have more government involvement than we do, including single payer systems that work much better than [...]

Too Simple To Be True

David Brooks writes of the recent problems in the financial sector of which the subprime mortgage mess is only one part. His column says that there are two narratives and only two narratives used to explain it. The Greed Narrative or the Ecology Narrative. He closes with this (emphasis mine).
The lesson of the Ecology Narrative is [...]

Pogo and The Street

Do you think that any of the hotshots on Wall Street are familiar with Pogo? Maybe you remember the famous saying and maybe you don’t but Wall Street seems to be the latest capitalists to have become capitalism’s greatest enemies. I rarely agree with anything Robert J. Samuelson has to say but this column of [...]

Plan B is the Better Option Sometimes

Time Magazine reports on Lester Brown’s Plan B, an ambitious set of actions to be taken to attempt to control global warming. There’s lots to it and it would cost $190 billion a year. That amount is what would be spent globally, not just by the U.S. Sounds like a huge amount of money, doesn’t [...]