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Archive for November, 2012
November 11th, 2012 - 5:38 am § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Mitt lost because he was not very good as a Mormon
Mormonism Cost Romney the Election (But It’s Not What You Think) By Kathryn Lofton All political candidates must prove that they’re just like us, yet this requires some demystification: you cannot just tell us that you’re like us, you must also explain how the strangest part of you makes sens[...]
Why do we still have a university press in an internet age?
The Gamble The answer may come from Princeton. The Princeton University Press cannot give away the ending of its forthcoming book, The Gamble,on the 2012 presidential election. But it does plan to give away the beginning. Read more[...]
November 10th, 2012 - 12:09 am § in Misc.
The AVE Challenge: Whatsit?
a. last space shuttle b. my insulin injection c. Obama’s pen signing last year’s debt extension d. painting detail from last work by Degas e. tattoo needle[...]
November 9th, 2012 - 8:51 pm § in Misc.
Guitar Plays The Man
I shot this last June in Tacoma. I was ar a concert by the Isley brothers … now very old men trying to capture their youth , Suddenly something happened, I swear Ernie Isley’s guitar was playing him. (c) SM Schwartz 2012[...]
November 9th, 2012 - 7:36 pm § in Misc.
Washington Housing Market on the Rebound
Home sales, median prices up in Washington; affordability slips Washington state’s housing market continued to improve during the third quarter of 2012 as median selling prices and the number of homes sold both increased, according to the Runstad Center for Real Estate Studies at the University of[...]
November 9th, 2012 - 12:18 pm § in Misc.
Why Romney Would Have Benn a Disaster for the Economy
Successful countries combine “social responsibility with personal freedom”. Mitt Romney’s view that “Corporations are Poeple Too” fails the test of real data. The world’s most successful countries are social democracies. THE PROSPERITY INDEX The Prosperity Index[...]
November 9th, 2012 - 7:49 am § in Misc.
California Spends More on Prisons Than On Higher Education!
The study, entitled Winners and Losers: Corrections and Higher Education in California, looked at the state’s general fund expenditures on corrections and higher education from the period between 1981 and 2011. Since 1980, higher education spending has decreased by 13 percent in inflation adju[...]
November 9th, 2012 - 7:02 am § in Misc.
Finale. or is it?
John Boehner: ‘We don’t have a tea party caucus to speak of’ TEA PARTY PATRIOTS: Mitt Romney was a ‘weak’ candidate, not a ‘fighter like Ronald Reagan’ CATO INSTITUTE: Tea party is misunderstood as a religious movement[...]