January 2010
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Word Of The Day: Solastalgia
- Daniel Smith, Is There an Ecological Unconscious?
“Solastalgia,” a combination of the Latin word solacium (comfort) and the Greek root –algia (pain), which he [Glenn Albrecht] defined as “the pain experienced when there is recognition that the place where one resides and that one loves is under immediate assault … a form of homesickness one gets when one is still at...
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i'm not insecure, i'm insecute.
(via bibliotheque)
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Gator Attacks Puzzle Experts
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British Left Waffles on Falklands
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Google Fans Phone Expectations by Scheduling Android Event
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McDonald’s Fries the Holy Grail for Potato Farmers
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MacArthur Flies Back to Front
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Violinist Linked to JAL Crash Blossoms
The Beijing Consensus
Thomas Freidman, Never Heard That Before
“Is the ‘Beijing Consensus’ replacing the ‘Washington Consensus?’ ” Washington Consensus is a term coined after the cold war for the free-market, pro-trade and globalization policies promoted by America. As Katrin Bennhold reported in The International Herald Tribune this week, developing countries everywhere are looking “for a recipe for faster growth...
GOP Can't Do Arithmetic
Frank Rich, The State of the Union Is Comatose
Crunching Congressional Budget Office numbers, David Leonhardt of The Times calculated that of the projected $2 trillion swing into the red between the Clinton surplus and 2012, some 33 percent could be attributed to Bush legislation and another 20 percent to Bush-initiated spending (Iraq, TARP) continued by Obama. Only 7 percent of the deficit...
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Volker Wants To Make Sure Nothing Is Too Big To...
Volker comments on President Obama’s recent proposals regarding bank reform:
- Paul Volker, How to Reform Our Financial System
The further proposal set out by the president recently to limit the proprietary activities of banks approaches the problem from a complementary direction. The point of departure is that adding further layers of risk to the inherent risks of essential commercial...
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Obama Has Lost The Left
The progressive end of the Democratic party is recoiling in disbelief as Obama advances a GOP-esque spending freeze on governement programs:
- Paul Krugman, Obama Liquidates Himself
A spending freeze? That’s the brilliant response of the Obama team to their first serious political setback?
It’s appalling on every level.
It’s bad economics, depressing demand when the economy is still suffering...
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Obama Has Lost Control OF His Narrative
- Richard Stevenson, The Muddled Selling of the President
Yes, he’s a liberal, except when he’s not. He’s antiwar, except for the one he’s escalating. He’s for bailouts, but wants to rein in the banks. He’s concentrating ever-more power in the West Wing, except when he’s being overly deferential to Congress. He’s cool, except when he’s fighting-hot.
In a world that presents so many fast-moving...
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“Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
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“The best that can be said for the economy was that by the fall of 2009 it seems...”
– ‘Freefall’ by Joseph Stiglitz
“Listen to the technology; find out what it’s telling you.”
– Carver Mead
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New Tactic: Fuedalism
In a new twist in the unrest in Afghanistan, the US is structuring relationships with tribal leaders and circumventing the government. Basically, a return to fuedalism.
A Look at America’s New Hope: The Afghan Tribes
Tribes have existed for millennia in the area that is present-day Afghanistan. They emerged over centuries in various sections of the country, taking form along extended kinship...
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Too Much Salt
- Ariel Kaminer, On New Yorkers’ Plates, a Pinch of Salt or a Pound?
The Food and Drug Administration recommends a maximum of 2,400 milligrams of sodium per day, 1,500 for people who have hypertension, are African-American (who are at higher risk of hypertension) or are beyond an unspecified middle age.
So how did New York’s favorite dishes fare? The yellow ribbons of pasta from the Standard...
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