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Friday, February 24, 2012. Fridays are wonderful days. First of all Fridays are the portal of the week-end; we can look forward to be freed of the constraints of daily drudgery and wallow in the mundane details of a different kind. At least we do not have to think of setting the alarm clock unless we want to get to the gym early. Today is Friday and I had a different kind of pleasure: reading columns by David Brooks. And by Paul Krugman. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Because I am an English Major.
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Listen up!: December 2009
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Friday, December 18, 2009. Opera was an Italian invention but very soon in the 17th Century an Italian, Jean-Baptiste Lully, was composing for the French monarch Louis XIV full theatrical spectacles, “tragedies en musique”. Looking up towards the Chagall ceiling. What we saw that afternoon was in stark contrast with the framework. Three short ballets, Amoveo choreographed by Benjamin Millepied, with music by Philip Glass, Répliques by Nicolas Paul, to music by György Ligeti, and Genus by Wayne McGreg...
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Listen up!: June 2012
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Saturday, June 16, 2012. Edward Conard has published a book, “Unintended Consequences”, to add his views to the current debate about inequality and taxation fairness. Mr. Conard’s takes the contrarian view, the unpopular one, and sustains that inequality is not evil, and that the rich, the very rich, deserve every advantage and every consideration because of their superior diligence, intelligence and dedication. They told me that they had not been home in six months, crisscrossing the USA on their busine...
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Listen up!: November 2010
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Sunday, November 21, 2010. The rate of sales tax collections as presented by the Finance Commissioner last week are also pointing to a steady pace of business. Is this extensive to the whole of the Capital area? Not according to Mr. Strauss: “We have built a moat around Saratoga Springs.”. This is not a question that should be deferred, because any finite resource in growing demand needs some form of allocation method. It can be done intelligently and the Downtown Business Association should particip...
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Listen up!: October 2012
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Tuesday, October 16, 2012. Tonight I just cannot bring myself to watch the Presidential debate. It will be painful enough to get tomorrow’s rehash…. Nothing that happens tonight at Hofstra will result in changing my mind about Obama. In any case I have already voted today, and, while in Nevada over the weekend, I will put in some more phoning or canvassing or whatever needs doing. To me he sounds like an “idiot savant”, those people (remember Dustin Hoffman in “Rainman”? Nothing at all: government is sup...
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Listen up!: April 2011
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Friday, April 22, 2011. Towards a new capitalism. In the United States abundant domestic oil production and the aversion to letting government intervene in the pricing of energy has led to wasteful use of resources. The deliberate dereliction of public investment in communal transportation and cheap oil have encouraged spread out development of bedroom communities, with the concurrent perverse effects of traffic congestion and pollution. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Because I am an English Major. Let us s...
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Listen up!: January 2012
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Thursday, January 12, 2012. What do Liberals really want? This time I disagree with David Brooks (NYT, 1/10/12): there are no liberals left in the USA because government, the center-left's most favored instrument, has failed to provide widely accepted solutions for what ails the country. The wide field of voters' economic interests and the pressure of time concentrates the candidate's, and eventually the elected person's, mind ferociously, demanding a drill down to policies that satisfy most of the const...
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Listen up!: February 2011
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Friday, February 25, 2011. Heat in the depth of winter. What is going on in Wisconsin? The media are compressing the reasons for this conflict into an anti-union tinged fight to bring the much-reviled public employees to heel, and that is the view that the conservative right would like us to have. There is a space for groups of people banding together to profitably produce goods or services under the banner of corporations, and there is a similar space for the common man, the citizen, to band together an...
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Listen up!: Are we seeing red?
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Thursday, March 29, 2012. Are we seeing red? The irony is that the failure of the capitalist model led to the collapse of the left in Europe. The big winner was the United Left party, a conglomerate of the remnants of the old Communist, and several shades of Anarchist, parties. They gained three parliamentary seats, for a total of five, becoming the pivot that would deny the conservatives their victory and stemmed the tide of reactionary blue over the political map. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
