Since Sgt Grumbles and shared his more finalised version of the ‘Best Albums of 2009′ I figured it was as good a time as any to revisit my list. I would have simply updated the original post, but there have been some significant changes to my ‘Best Albums of 2009 (thus far)‘ list due to [...]
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Best Albums of 2009 Revisited
Posted in Culture, Music & Film, tagged Album, Andrew Bird, Animal Collective, Atlas Sound, Axe to Fall, Best Albums, Best of 2009, Born Again Revisited, Buddy Holly, Camera Obscura, Cass McCombs, Catacombs, Chris Cohen, Converge, Cryptacise, Cursive, Curtains, Domestica, Dragonslayer, Elvis Costello, Girls, Grizzly Bear, Happy Hollow, Hellhole Ratrace, I'm Swollen, Jane Doe, Logos, Mama, Merriweather Post Pavilion, My Maudlin Career, Mythomania, NME, Noble Beast, Pet Sounds, Pitchfork, Rip it Off, Stereogum, Sunset Rubdown, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, These Four Walls, Times New Viking, Two Weeks, update, Veckatimest, We Were Promised Jetpacks, While You Wait for the Others on November 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Street Sweeping Woes
Posted in Culture, Miscellany, tagged Press-Telegram, Soldiers honored on November 18, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Occasionally this CAI writer will chime in to his local paper to respond to an editorial or another writer. Here is the latest exchange.
Press-Telegram Letters to the editor (11/13/09):
Honored by street sweepers
On Veterans Day, when the U.S. Post Office is closed, when the banks are closed to salute our military brethren, when schools are closed [...]
Fair Trade… For Our Conscience Or Their Benefit?
Posted in Belief, Culture, Economics, tagged Cardus, coffee, fair trade, Hernando de Soto, Robert Joustra on November 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Have you ever talked with people about fair trade, the idea of branding certain commodities that have passed muster as delivering a fair and decent price to its third-world producers? I have, and they are usually boisterously supportive of it, or at least passively not opposed to it on the grounds of why not? I [...]
A year after the election…
Posted in Culture, Politics, tagged approval, Esquire, Gallup, John Richardson, Obama, poll, President, year on November 4, 2009 | 6 Comments »
It was one year ago today that Barack Obama won the election for the office of the President of the United States. When he took office in January of this year, President Obama held a nearly 70% approval rating according to the Gallup poll. As we can observe from the chart below, that approval has [...]
Three Strikes
Posted in Belief, Culture, tagged forgiveness, Ina Jaffe, mercy, NPR, Three Strikes Law on October 29, 2009 | 5 Comments »
UPDATE: Parts two and three of the series. Treads similar ground but definitely worth a listen, just about 5 minutes each.
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While the title may lead you to believe this is a baseball post, it is not. I will leave those inane ramblings about “the nations pastime” to Elijah.
Instead. this post is to direct your attention [...]
Daniel Smith
Posted in Art, Culture, Music & Film, Religion, tagged a Family Movie, Bob Dylan, Daniel Smith, Danielson, Elliott Smith, heroes, Jesus Christ, John Gardner, New Jersey on October 29, 2009 | 3 Comments »
In my lifetime I have been blessed with the opportunity to know or at least to be exposed to various people that have a magic in them that necessitate a portion of my devotion – my heroes. Among them are people like my father, who taught me the meaning of selflessness, hard work, and patience, [...]
My Secret Love Affair with Capitalism
Posted in Culture, Economics, Sports, tagged A-Rod, Alex Rodriguez, America, baseball, beef, capitalism, consumer, ethics, MLB, steroids, United States, Walmart, Yankees on October 16, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I’ve hinted at this in an earlier post, but I’ve never made the explicit jump into economics. Whether a particular American likes it or not, America is primarily possesses a maket-based economy. The consumer plays a vital role in the market-based economy. For example, in such a way as to keep a business “ethical,” the [...]
The Fun Theory
Posted in Culture, International, Miscellany, Technology, tagged fun, piano stairs, Rolig Hets Teorin, The Fun Theory, Volkswagon on October 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Because everyone and their mother seems to be writing about the President Obama-Nobel Peace Prize “scandal,” I thought I’d post something more creative today. Of course, this isn’t my creativity, but the creativity of a Swedish initiative funded by Volkswagon called “Rolig Hets Teorin,” or “The Fun Theory.” Their main goal is to demonstrate that [...]
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