A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the News Stand

Before I entered Half-Priced Books***, I told myself I would not pick up anything on a whim, or rather only if it had some extra-ordinary significance.(loosely paraphrasing.)* And what do I find right on top of the bargain rack at the door? The mother of all bargains. It was a pristine copy of a very interesting book for only two dollars. It's title, The Demon Slayers and other stories: Bengali Folk Tales.

It was not till I got home that I found even more about the book. Not only was it a first edition, it was autographed by both authors. Just what is the significance beyond the luck of such a find? Well in a Pop Culture, it is related to the mother of all cultures. Not history or her story but our story.

* in my last visit I found a new edition of Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

(mean while under Division of Labor I find the roots of an evolutionary social process)

BTW: From Tale Gate to Retro Gate [!]

And other follow-up: Go Rick Go! or Read my lips [!]

(sic)[?], puke, water-bored?, parsing?, snob... Rollin' on the River**

** pun on Ed*** in (sic) Rollins 'n F'n d-now.

** Ed Rollins, not that all "F" are ineffable or pro-feign.(alternate asterisk)

*** to pass through to the news stand in the mall

Political Calculus and the Political 4 Cast

Rachel Maddow presents an interesting perspective, which I stumbled* on mid-comment. I will call it the His-Story-Ann who stole X-Mass.

Well, not exactly. But it does have to do with political calculus and the 4 horseman of the 1%. AKA: Raw Money*** Class

[Where there is smoke** there is fire. Where there is friction, there becomes light. Three ends against the American middle, one for all against what's left.


* actually I walked into the room with MSNBC on.

[and by George]

**(Raw Money link added) not exactly

*** [3-19-13 update, Raw Money link:  http://www.nbcnews.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/#46550300
smoke: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/#46550359 ]

The Pacific?

Not
Exactly *
...
But I did pick 'm up.

* who knows

Tic-TOC:
A,
B,
C- D thru H.

(oops!) there he goes again...**

**that darn anomaly
(Not to kill two birds with one stone, but I think I have explained the anomaly, but it may take some time to work out. Not to pun on the tic-TOC, but I don't know how long certain hyperlinks will be valid either. It originally pertained to the TOC (C-*), but as my embedding reached some limit, I pushed the rest onto the Footnotes under PAGES.)

BTW: the purpose of the A-H (ha!) was to list the current BS(blog search) of "The Alantic" Label as it appears before I change anything.

Frackin', Fudgin', Freakin', In-"F"-able[!]

Frackin'
Fudgin'
Freakin'
In-F-Able! -

Mitt,
Newt,
Ron,
Rick.

Not exactly a cross word, ribble or ineffable...
But by George, close enough for G work.

http://political_progress_for_people.blogspot.com/search?q=close+enough+for

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2010/04/24/93492/steve-king-repeal-uncertainty/

[Speaking of ineffable...($F=G works) see previous post, Re:mouse and image/edit problems, not to 4close the word or scroll, over.]
[Please note that an anamoly has been cured. Which I hope to mention later...or knot[!]]

http://political_progress_for_people.blogspot.com/2012/02/saint-or-um.html

http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=311251275598904&id=100000176362685#!/permalink.php?story_fbid=371162076234764&id=100000176362685

Saint Or Um...

This is nothing to make light of[!]
Except for the context[!]
Saint or um... calm pend e um!
Special thanks to David Bender (on the Stephanie Miller Show) and his callers.
[!] = irony mark*

* [!]**= irony mark

**[!] In-F-able language alert.

***(see previous post)

[And I don't mean Follow-up! But something is so powerful in the image attached that editing is limited to my keyboard over mouse***. Nevertheless, Thom Hartmann (update link: 2-28-12) ) today is my last reference. Something about Obama... of course. You can BS or rather Blog Search Thom Hartmann(this B), and (Crtl F) "Oh, what a web..."!]

Saint Or Um Alert!

This is nothing to make light of[!]

Except for the (sic) con text[!]

[!] = irony mark

[Saint or um... calm pend e um]

[Special thanks to David Bender and his callers.]

*** follow-up (later)

Rick Santorum and the Lost Ark*

or Temple [!]
(Republicans 2012)

H.Q.
The "irony mark" [!] is not symbolic of anything but a link to the label, while the H.Q. locates a link to the debates.

The term "culture war" has been batted around for longer than I thought. The term itself almost deserves some resistence, but avoidance of its use would not change the battle, or would it?

* original heading: ... and the Lost Skull.

Obama BS

Obama Bumper Sticker
President Obama's accomplishments** can't fit on a bumper sticker.

On the Flip Flop?
I don't believe the liberal media.
I don't believe the larebil* media.

*liberal crossed out
** BS also means blog search(later)
[I saw the bumber sticker with Liberal scratched over, and it gave me pause. Were they erasing the label of Liberal for media because they saw no difference or because they realized it wasn't?]

American Exceptionalism

Not a Fashion Statement [!]

Let alone formal.

Was this an error or a churned media event?

The mess age is the message?

Oar IM [!]?

The Vision Thing

Statistics are people too[!]

No, I don't mean that, but they are a communication of something, from the Center for American Progress* If corporations are people, what are the charts saying, in these graphs. Maybe that Obama or the Democratic congress were the savior. Not that unnatural selection(Cherry Pickinghatchet jobs, by George[no Ben]) may be able to tell a different** story.

Some have said the market has some form of intelligence, Adam Smith aside, if that is the case the Obama was the cure for what Ailes the economy. Or it could just be a cycle, NOT!***

* choice of format

** accidental find

(I might suggest closing your eyes for this clip, and a ear of caution on the next.)

*** not to risk being expelled, but is there room for dia-logue?(un-Try-Knitty)

[Speaking of I - D, I / M, there is the V. C. of dominoes.]

[ad hoc chart or In"F"a table?]

Not so simple.

Romney and Santorum on gum-mint funding.

It might not be so simple for us to blame Republicans for taking Federal funds. It can easily be said that they just want their money back. This is aside from their insanity about cutting taxes and spending. But it does seem that they will spend it as long as they don't have to take responsibility for taxing for it.

Who said...

Oops!

You can't judge a book by its cover.

Or rather never judge a book by its cover.

While I might apply that to my last post,

a trailer is more than a cover,

and reviews are presumed***to have done more than open the cover.

Not to mention other formats.

[ Incidentally, I cannot even link to the page that scrolled through my facebook.

See "not" "other", to mention a few. ]

*** review in draft

Social Darwinism 2.0[!]

Social Darwinism [!]

The Dickens you say?

(not to docu-moc [!]

but to lay a foundation,

you Ctrl F and BS [!])

Earth to Santorum[!]

To Serve Earth?

Santorum is not questioning the President's faith,

just his world view, which is a "different stripe " of Christianity*.

Man is the Objective and "anachronistic" [?]

Despite the cultural cracks I am making, Santorum would be a good addition to the table of discussion. It is a dialogue we should be having, to clear the air of the boogeymen, and kraft our course.

* Christian

(a, b, c )

Bridge

No Trump?

The Donald doesn't get his own bump.

Is that Freedoms preemption?

BTW: I had better freeze some stem cells for this thread.

(not exactly or Adam Smith [?] [!])

(parsing the game)

Catch-44

President Obama seems to have doubled down on the culture war.

2-15-12 Politics and the Table.

Politics is the pinnacle of the power play.

Physics, Psychology and Philosophy are the base.

Culture is the result and the field of play.

Economics, values and pragmatism the material.

The Irony Leviathan.*

* not the same vehicle

(Million Dollar Baby/Inconvenient Segue)***

[I have a hecuva lot in draft as well as embedded in previous posts that need sorting, and this may be a crack at that. And to un-Ribble it is in the social Darwinism and the yo gurt! If this is too fantastical, well just ask Raw Money, "Corporations are people too, my friend." See Leviathan, and intestinal Darwinism or rather the cultural state of progress.]

[Andrea Mitchell** and Ginzu Alice: Santorum and Romney slash the economy, with GM and the big dig but we need a big deal.]

** two segments Santorum spokesperson Alice, and reference to slashing the budgets in Michigan and Massachusett, under the light of federal projects.

***[Just caught this Thom Hartmann.]

[Common Ground the Enemy? Recent enlightenment on "The end justifies the means." At the moment I can't locate the link.*^^ But it might be Twain "The Prince"*^ and the Pauper. Martin Bashir segments enlighten, especially the Bane Or Change. Also on the Clint Eastwood Filmography, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, not to mention the Three Little Pigs. Not Bashir, that was elsewhere. Doom and Gloom Snobbery?]

*^ The Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution, not exactly ugly but three pigs in a blanket of rhetoric. Freedom is not a force, but the government is our creation.

*^^ Somewhere there may be embedded some links on the evolution of the 3 founding documents through the likes of Madison and George Washington.

Catch-22?

Or welcome to the Rat Race?

The actual trap.

Fair and balanced?

Liberal reticence an oxymoron?

The new Rat Trap?

Catch-44 rebound ed?

The real catch?

(And some missed.)

Fairly Rube Goldburg.*

*sp![Ctrl F(sic) if not SB ?]

[Bold fully read. Rat Trap in the "balanced". The "real catch" is the timing.]

[No mas, no pun, no gain]

[Breaking: not exactly ?]

[To say the least.]

[See updates]

2012 Grammy Awards

It was with some nostalgia that I had looked forward to seeing the Beach Boys in the up coming Grammy Awards. It was certainly unexpected to have the passing of Witney Houston to add sadness to the nostalgia. It was with appropiate irony and timing that I inaugurated my new DVD recorder by missing the Beach Boys during the previous two sentences. If you will note the anachronism, Glenn Campbell is being honored at the moment, as I have switched rooms and computers. The Boss opened with an interesting number^*^, speaking of anachronism** and honors*.

* all links now being added (The Grammy Foundation is just explained, $12 million for MusicCares.)

** Meanwhile it seems that Target hit the cross hairs of the popped culture***.

*** French song in colorful commercial seems to be an in your face.

^*^ We Take Care of Our Own.

A counting Trick?

An accounting trick?

It's math, it's politics, it governing...

it's economics!

A trick alright!

[Wonk down?]

[Leech up?]

[Dante's True Man in Reality? Left or Right? Up or Down, Inside / Out ?]

[Note: Bracketeds here reflect post reading of links one and two,which were only glanced at before further comment.]

[Seg / Way? Make Room for Tribes.]

Now this is the ticket.

Or rather perspective on having a perspective.

1. Professor Ponzi, or thinking about the methodology, the sociology and the economics of economics

2. Sylvia Nasar on The Story of Economic Genius: Great Thinkers in History

New Page: Institute for New Economic Thinking

Also: Progressive Media

Also Updates: Gingrich/Romney on Pop e Culture.*

Such** a deal?

*the links are still evolving, I saw an impressive Romney speech***, but only in the light of Gingrich and Santorum.

** Thom Hartmann roots out biology and an abstraction as corner stone to society, before guestflees. (and that is a note on the light R side)

[BTW: these are living asterisks in their anachronism C*** BTW2.0 He opens with a spin on the joke on Bush. GW gave us progressives. To paraphrase: Obama community organized CPAC.]

*** also C***under-BTW: Pop Culture & yogurt or Yo!Gurt

under **see-not necessarily a huff

[On the Economy, and mythbusters?]

[2-23-12 The Dickens, you say? Label and Image added.]

War on Walls?

[Home on Derange?]

[Rhetorical Twilight Zone: ...]

Rev. Al is just starting to roll,

but Hard Ball had a guest that I will undertow.

Bane or Explained.

The Atlantic James Fallows.{!}

(note bracketed anachronism: pre-post'er us rhetorical ramble.)

[Foreign^ Policy War on Diplomacy.]

[Brokered^^ Con`vention?]

[Bill Moyers destroys Newt Gingrich Historian]

^by George Neo-F Will

^^The Last Word

Weird Google of the Day.

Who coined "culture war?

A,

B,

C,

D,

E,

James Davison Hunter ?

The Trigger?

The Dickens you say?

[NFRY]

[QCON of the day: Mitt Romney is not finished, obviously. But my point is that the three states he lost and Rick Santorum won, were all caucus states*. That is probably the biggest factor in concentrating the conservative interests, as well as what Romney and Gingrich have done to each other. ]

*2-10-12 not exactly: tet ra he dron ?

Trump Bump

What happened to that Trump bump?

I don't know if anyone has asked that yet.
Not even the Last Word?

[ 2-10-12 Convenient link.

Not so secret vault (or sell R?).]

Toxic Tolerance?

From News Nation* to Martin Bashir,**

* must find reference to Hispanic candidate facing English Test***

** find Toxic Waste of Time (his title)

*** rhetorical socio paths

[eponymous? not exactly a Tea Party.]

Karl Frisch

in for Thom Hartmann.

NFRY

Speaking of Bowls

Ctrl F: Lean Back

The Super Bowl was played last weekend, and I did not do too much consideration of whom to root for. If I had known that NY were the underdog and thought that a name like the Giants should win, I may have rooted for them. But instead, my sister's family lives in Boston, and they were after all The Patriots. On the other hand, I heard a bit of the pregame** and heard that the sportscasters were rooting for a tie game, not*** to relate to the Republican race.*

{F=find (see title)}

*But it was a heckuva game!

** or rather pre-pregame (not !)

*** post game non-game

*^ There is some irony in the relationship between religious freedom and conscience(not to mention anachronism in the aster^risks. [^] ?)

[the dickens you say?]

Seg / way : Free-dom ? *^

[As opposed to ... ?]

? Bingo you say!

Lean Back

Anniversaries from "Unhistory".

4women: [under construction]

Or should I?

I won't get stuck on numbers, but this is an interesting tangent.

Passing the buck in "the culture war"?

One Million Moms claims there is a culture war.

How is one neutral in what is their war?

Mourning in America:***

for the Raw Money* Class?

It's half-time in America.

(RM** w/Chris Hayes)

*Thanks to Norman Goldman for Mint Raw Money, and a Thom Hartmann caller who wanted a new class label for the 1% if Romney is the nominee. Do we really want to go back to where we were in 2008?

**only a coincidence he is in for Rachel Maddow

*** they used to call it "doom and gloom"

[***B:(link added) I take it back, they doo doo irony! Talk about twisted bridge of rhetoric.]

[2-7-12 An Inconvenient Acronym: PU Action as opposed to just PU**^? Actually it is more*^ of an inconvenient blog search.]

*^ a,b,c

**^ Speaking of Bowls[?] (irony mark: a,b,c,d,e,)("parsed"=a+b)

Lean Forward

MSNBC

My References,

my labels.

today.

Morning Joe,

Up with Chris Hayes,

and more.

Alex Witt...

[*Willie Geist

Morning Joe,

Daily Rundown,

Jansing & Co.,

Now w/Alex Wagner,

Andrea Mitchell,

News Nation, w/Tamron Hall,]

Martin Bashir,**

Dylan Ratigan,

Politics Nation, Rev. Al Sharpton,***

Chris Matthews,

The Ed Show, Ed Schultz,

Rachel Maddow,*

The Last Word, Lawrence O'Donnell,

Up, w/Chris Hayes*^

Weekends, w/Alex Witt

[*2-8-12 inserts/links and rearrangements, I have not asterisked all the additions

** "the Dickens" some say [!] (Newt'n Con Science?)

*** "no spin" but "doom and gloom"]

*^ Up w/ 4wo men

[!]= irony mark but link is the "Dickens"(a, b,c & x-y?)

4 Give Me

3* Great Ledes.

Or Left* at the Dock?

Caution(*) aside, the tail is in the reading.

You can view the full clips and find that the titles*** are misleading. Although this may be a ploy to get you to read the Dock(3). George Carlin makes no mention of Ron Paul in his bit(1), and I believe that the lede for the Ron Paul piece(2) is a teaser**.

*(Carlin drops F-bombs and more in 1st link)

** i.e. heading

[*** (C**)BTW: it was not my intent plug a hole 4example]

[2-4-12: The Way We Were?]

Social Darwinism?

Social Darwinism?

Is that not an inconvenient term? I know it relates to "survival of the fittest", but what is social about it? Shouldn't those that don't fit, be thrown to the wolves? Pardon my spin, but if corporations are people, what are communities? I think we are suffering from labelism and spin.

Second Spin: There seems to be something "inconvenient" about this juxtaposition, which is hard to unspin. I know it stems from "survival of the fittest", but is that not the root of being social? Unsocial Darwinism would be no more convenient. But that doesn't stop some from evolving labels and name calling.

[Speaking of Creeping, not to ding Rachel Maddow, but note the Santorum, 3F. Invisible hand anyone? What would Adam Smith say about teachers, drug companies and whose job is what. Not to confuse Popping Culture with Pope Culture. ]

[In light of Righting the Ship?]

Soul Dad?

It was after making this unfortunate lede* that the news of Don Cornelius's passing reached my screen. Speaking of R-E-S-P-E-C-T, no disrespect to Soledad O'Brien, but to say it is inconvenient timing, makes it sound like there could be any better. A loss of this kind is sad, but did it have to happen this month?

[follow-up: and back]

* heading of some links saved yesterday in draft

Righting the Ship[?]

The Skipper[!]

...the professor and...*

marry ann?**

HMS Eclectic? Or USS Heterodox?*

note: bracketed exclamation/question marks indicate irony/sarcasm.

*see "straps"

[OK, a bit too eclectic? See The Skipper (above).]

[The inspiration for this framing is the INET interview, and the concept of economics being a field of engineering and its relation to science, nature and culture.]

[Speaking of maps, I am not sure I have read this...yet...

In fact, it is now incumbent that I do. And the least I can say is that I now have, but don't think I had.]

[In this regard I have updated my profile.]

[Later ? / oops!]

* pop culture anyone?

** JD anyone ?

[Now that's the ticket!]

2-9-12 New Page

2-2-12 Updates

Labels

In light of

the last two posts:

THE BARaK SIDE

The Nature of the...

Beast,

and I don't mean the daily "blank"*

I mean the media.**

It fails if it fails to get our attention.

And good news*** doesn't sell.

*youtube segue

** no TP

**(Ctrl F logic)

[The three T's? Paine, Hobbes and Doubting.]

[The longest punchline, or copyright violation...before I forget, I better finish the sentence.

BTW: Did Howard Dean make a Freudian slip on The Last Word?]

[BTW 2.0: Going Postal takes on a new light. Just ask American Airlines. Just ask Congress. Speaking of Raw Money Class... and Florida... what about instant runoff voting? Romney is A, Gingrich and Paul are B and C. ]

[2-2-12 link added to bold sentence above. Mint Raw Money(thanks to Norman Goldman) violated possible copyright(thanks to Rachel Maddow) in using "self deportation" of Daniel Deportado. ]

Child's Play

Freak Show vs. Bogeyman:

The Lyin' King?

While my original intent was the feeling that this is getting old, or rather childish. Then to see the nature of the exchange on Morning Joe, it takes some perspectivising.* Martin Bashir covers another aspect of the picture show. Back to the future, I mean Morning Joe, who is in the drivers seat? Mika or Joe? The image of President Obama getting into a car at an auto show. Who is in the drivers seat? Politically the President is. But it is like one of those drivers-ed cars with a second wheel and brakes on the passenger side, and congress is in that seat. But with Batman, I mean Bashir on West, Republicans would have no message if they did not have imagined monsters: "equality of achievement", "economic dependency"and "enslaving".

So...bottom line, Political is a double-edged sword. There is the race and there is the economy. Congress plays a role in both, and negative is not just ugly, it can have actual facts. So Mika can say that Obama is behind the wheel. And Joe can say he is not. Now you may see that the president is not the only one in the car, with a hand on the wheel.

* not that I take the Mediaite perspective (Donny Deutsch made a reasonable point, see negative/ugly/facts.)

[Not to call it a hatefest, just a hecuvafest.]

[Not to rob Peter to pay Paul. See Freudian/Austrian. Lit-urgeical hint]

[Couched Analogy?]

[not to leap fest** but I am missing a piece on certainty***.]

[Action item: FEC apointments & expired terms]

** tba: no pun on SBA, but to be arranged

*** dba? a pun/myst on the "free market" need(see drives-ed car) for certainty

[BTW: if you need GPS, why not Ctrl F frackin' fudgin"? Pun with acronyms, not to mention initialism. Speaking of caricatures and labelism.]