The Great Mail Fraud

In case you haven’t heard the Postmaster General has requested congress to lift the requirement to deliver mail six days a week.  The USPS is not an efficient machine, in fact it bleeds money, $2.8 billion loss last year and a projected $6 billion loss this year.  So they have decided that if they eliminate [...]

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TED’s In Town

TED is holding their first conference in Long Beach next month after 20 years in Monterey, CA.  I was introduced to TED years ago when I ran across Bjørn Lomborg’s presentation at a conference.  It is an incredible organization designed to bring together innovative thinkers and doers to present their ideas on Technology, Entertainment, and [...]

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Economic?? Stimulus

Drudge has a flash about the stimulus bill going through congress right now… the bill that is supposed to stimulate the economy and help us through this recession… the bill that is near $900 billion in spending.  Drudge’s flash points out one area of the bill that stipulates that:
not less than $335,000,000 shall be used [...]

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How To Waste An Entire Day

Go to the website passiveaggressivenotes.com.  Start reading… and if you are like me, you will find it hard to stop reading the notes.

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White House Techmonology

I found this to be a very interesting article from the Washington Post.  It seems the technology is severely limited in the White House.  I’ve read reports of this before where people from the private sector are shocked at what is available to use when they become employed in government, but this will be an [...]

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Hollywood & Obama

Andrew Breitbart started a conservative blog called Big Hollywood just a short while back, and I have enjoyed reading it as a former member of that secret cabal of conservatives working in entertainment.  It is filled with people talking about the struggles of that double-life in Hollywood, but also as a sort of news post [...]

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Change

The “historic” nature of this inauguration was not the thing I am most stoked about…but it’s something signficant fo sho.

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To Sir, With Hope

Unfortunately I haven’t been able to watch any of the inauguration ceremony… so hopefully I can catch some good clips tonight.  I must say that I am very hopeful (to borrow a phrase) for Obama’s presidency.  Not because I agree with his philosophy or his political leanings… but because, what is the alternative?  I know [...]

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Body Image

There is an ever-growing concern among American parents, sociologists, and educators regarding the way that dolls (like Barbie) negatively impact the way that young girls perceive their own bodies.  I found this report fascinating:

PS. I apologize for the Michael Bannon’s closing remarks.

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The current Israel-Gaza conflict

I’m surprised that our blog hasn’t featured much (if any) discussion regarding the current troubles in Gaza (though we are being assured of a ceasefire by Israeli leadership).  I have rather strong views in opposition to the many of the actions of Israel (both presently and in the past), but I understand that as [...]

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