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i n f o c l o u d: March 2009
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Thursday, March 5, 2009. 8220;The GOP is out shopping for a new dining set, a new couch, a flat-screen- anything to make the crib look a little more inviting. Meanwhile the water bill is two months past due. The lights are off. And the eviction notice is in the mail.”. This from Atlantic Magazine. Tuesday, March 3, 2009. Well, I see February was a blog post-free month for me. I had this nagging suspicion I should update infocloud. But figured my reader had probably stopped visiting anyway. Bleating annou...
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i n f o c l o u d: American cars
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Friday, December 5, 2008. As a child of the 50s and 60s I was obsessed with cars. I filled notebooks with drawings of how I thought they should look. The highlight of my year was going to the Indianapolis Auto Show with my dad. Back then, “foreign cars” were odd, small, and to my thinking, not very appealing. 8221; so I walked away. I love to drive. And US car makers made some great cars. That was a long time ago. I think the american automakers have had their chance. The US auto industry needs to be...
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i n f o c l o u d: August 2008
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Monday, August 25, 2008. Garrison Keillor, my man. Saturday, August 23, 2008. To those who say they'll sit this one out. When I read the news on Salon. About Obama’s choice of Joe Biden this morning, I raced through the story to get to the reader’s comments. To me, people’s reactions are the true story. I'm not thrilled with Obama or Biden. But to say you'd sit this one out means you've been living in a different country than I have in the past 8 years. Friday, August 1, 2008. When I saw the light fallin...
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i n f o c l o u d: Working with wood
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009. Well, I see February was a blog post-free month for me. I had this nagging suspicion I should update infocloud. But figured my reader had probably stopped visiting anyway. Part of my reluctance to post is not really knowing what my guiding theme should be. I tend to alienate some people when I write about politics, and don’t think I have much original to say anyway. So I’ll just riff a little as I get back in the blogging saddle. March 20, 2009 at 2:53 PM. View my complete profile.
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i n f o c l o u d: State of the Union: Not so good
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Thursday, January 28, 2010. State of the Union: Not so good. The president's SOTU address last night left me underwhelmed. When I woke up this morning and parsed what I'd heard, I went from underwhelmed to full-on depressed. Let's see: we've given $700 billion to bail out banks, and a mere $30 billion will go to help small businesses hire people for jobs that don't exist because nobody is buying anything? Will you ever return to blogging? Or has Twitter captured your heart forever? People streaming by dr...
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i n f o c l o u d: Racism: Bad for your community
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Monday, January 19, 2009. Racism: Bad for your community. A holiday faced us, a sunny, wintry day just before the inauguration of our transformational president. The university and my wonderful publishing company both acknowledge the day as the holiday it rightly is. No sense giving in to guilt and working. This day was asking for a short road trip. I’ve been to places defined and shaped by their racist pasts: Birmingham, Chicago, Memphis, Detroit, Newark, Philadelphia—but none have touched m...Bleating ...
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i n f o c l o u d: Living with chickens
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Thursday, January 8, 2009. 8220;May you live in interesting times.” Sometimes, that thought is all the solace I can take away from the relentless drone of the day’s frightening news. Insecurity grows with stories of foreclosures, job losses, store closings, bankruptcies and suicides. I obsess over blogs like that of James Howard Kuntsler. Check in on the stock market at Bloomberg.com. Or quickly check the latest headline at the Huffington Post. Is my current favorite book. 8226; apprenticing myself to th...
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i n f o c l o u d: January 2009
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Monday, January 26, 2009. A revolution of the spirit. Events unfolding in a shockingly depressing sequence make me fearful. The fear can be immobilizing, and confronting it and breaking through is my new obsession. Monday, January 19, 2009. Racism: Bad for your community. We decided to go somewhere we had heard so much about, just an hour away. It’s at the confluence of two powerful rivers: the Ohio and the Mississippi. Cairo, Illinois. Now I don’t know much about the history of Cairo, only that ra...
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i n f o c l o u d: February 2008
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Monday, February 25, 2008. The winter that just won’t go away. Winter has dragged on here in Southernmost Illinois this year. The weather reports say tomorrow is going to be 50 degrees, and the next morning you wake up to gray skies, more snow, maybe another ice storm, a drizzly rain, and the ground stays white. White with tired old snow, crusty, marred by yellow spots where the dogs have pissed, fallen branches—a truly dismal sight. It’ll be OK. Monday, February 18, 2008. Forgetting to be green. So, we ...
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i n f o c l o u d: A revolution of the spirit
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Monday, January 26, 2009. A revolution of the spirit. Events unfolding in a shockingly depressing sequence make me fearful. The fear can be immobilizing, and confronting it and breaking through is my new obsession. January 27, 2009 at 5:32 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Murphysboro, Illinois, United States. View my complete profile. A revolution of the spirit. Racism: Bad for your community. It used to seem fun and now it isn’t. More hours to while away slouched and tired.
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