May Day ain't what it used to be.
Cads are what they will be.
CAD used to stand for Computer Aided Design.
Fore! To correct the swing of sorts.
I recently referred to Ted Nugent as having CAD, Cause Affect Deficiency or Disorder, along with Mitt Romney. And since it is all about the defining issues of our time, or the 2012 election, the ideal flip-flop from Cause Affect Disorder is Culturally Aided Design. If fact I feel that the Jonathan Haidt book, The Righteous Mind may be enlightening to read, but I believe it has some imbalances.
Why does he pick the categories he does to distinguish liberals from conservatives? Why is having them balanced better than in some hierarchy? Why should we look to the sacred, and wouldn't the rest follow of sorts? SEGUE
If moral psychology is the foundation for politics and religion, what is the foundation of economics? Or physics and philosophy?
Now I know I am avoiding comment on the May Day issues**, but in the greater scheme of things, there may be a related point to do so. While I have yet to get the book, I have perused more than once most of the links in the previous paragraph(pre-segue). Not that they may be inserted only slightly more than haphazardly. In my lede, I have hinted that to be a CAD is not always bad, but sometimes it is just*** a tool*.
*BTW: it was more than just for convenience that I used affect over effect.
** 5-2-12
***5-3-12 "CAD" and "just" links are not endorsements of confrontation without consequences. Violence and destruction must not be condoned. Anarchists should be seen as part of the 1%. (Hijacking the message, much as the Tea-party had their's hijacked by the Koch bothers.) I might add that globalization, capitalism and even cap and trade, are not the problems or solutions^. It is the entitlements of the 1% in their hyperbola of fantasy. The only difference between anarchists and libertarians is the fantasy. Not that anarchists are more real, at least they realize that their is something about the foundations over the fountainhead.
[5-4-12 On the globalization front.]
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Wednesday, May 02, 2012
Thursday, April 19, 2012
CAD (Culturally Aided Design)
That was not my original insult. I mean intent.
Nor the original CAD or (under)mine,
speaking of Cause Affect Deficiency: (updated Cause Affect Disorder)
I feel like Ann Romney, with an early Birthday present.(ala CNN and the Hilary Rosen War) Yesterday someone tossed an expletive at my Obama bumper sticker. Speaking of CAD, Ted Nugent is a Raw Money reincarnation of the Swift Boaters. Only he needs a vet for his Cat Scratch Fever. More on CAD, it is not computer-aided design, it is cause and affect deficiency.
BTW: it is still our turn,(thanks Ann) if Bush could get a second one in the middle of a war, no matter who started it.
CAD-2.0: more or less
*not to decapitalize
[Clue to the G'Ribble.]
[update decapitalize: Huffington Post throws journalism in the pit.]
UPDATE 4-24-12 (images)
Nor the original CAD or (under)mine,
speaking of Cause Affect Deficiency: (updated Cause Affect Disorder)
I feel like Ann Romney, with an early Birthday present.(ala CNN and the Hilary Rosen War) Yesterday someone tossed an expletive at my Obama bumper sticker. Speaking of CAD, Ted Nugent is a Raw Money reincarnation of the Swift Boaters. Only he needs a vet for his Cat Scratch Fever. More on CAD, it is not computer-aided design, it is cause and affect deficiency.
BTW: it is still our turn,(thanks Ann) if Bush could get a second one in the middle of a war, no matter who started it.
CAD-2.0: more or less
[Not to demonize or capitalize on catholic and deficiencies*, but if government is a business and corporations are people, what is bankruptcy, let alone where is the death penalty?]
*not to decapitalize
[Clue to the G'Ribble.]
[update decapitalize: Huffington Post throws journalism in the pit.]
UPDATE 4-24-12 (images)
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Out of the Blue?
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Slash Segue
Michael Sandel: The lost art of democratic debate
And Criss-Classification
It is not about right or left but who* is the behind.
*please excuse the just(juxt)aposition of humor
---
For Sagans Sake: I will ungoogle the B. or link con tent:
(i.e. list of links above)
TED: Sandel as noted
Sandel/Soros
BookTV: Hedges on Class
New Yorker: Taleb
Jim Wallis(Sojourners) Sandel
BBC:Sit com? (no pun but Latin roots**)
Taleb Context
*
Asimov context
Mike Wallace: Ayn Rand
Embed(un) Pop Culture
Pre-Decartes or Aristotellian***?
**actual roots are(not) the spin on "darkest before the storm"
*** not to mention the B&A tangents not relinkeds(sp!)
[2-17-11 UPDATE:(not) Talk about a fifth sense? Yikes.]
And Criss-Classification
It is not about right or left but who* is the behind.
*please excuse the just(juxt)aposition of humor
---
For Sagans Sake: I will ungoogle the B. or link con tent:
(i.e. list of links above)
TED: Sandel as noted
Sandel/Soros
BookTV: Hedges on Class
New Yorker: Taleb
Jim Wallis(Sojourners) Sandel
BBC:Sit com? (no pun but Latin roots**)
Taleb Context
*
Asimov context
Mike Wallace: Ayn Rand
Embed(un) Pop Culture
Pre-Decartes or Aristotellian***?
**actual roots are(not) the spin on "darkest before the storm"
*** not to mention the B&A tangents not relinkeds(sp!)
[2-17-11 UPDATE:(not) Talk about a fifth sense? Yikes.]
Thursday, June 17, 2010
GO OBAMA!
GO US! As in "We" .
Go Ed!
Rachel? (Stopping the tape...)
I guess I took Randi Rhodes' advice, not to watch the talking heads or whatshe calls 'em. Now I am behind the curve as to the reaction that seems a bit off.
I have yet to hear much about his Gulf Restoration Project. Maybe because we need a media restoration project. Meanwhile...
Robert Reich
Marc Ambinder
Think Progress
Center for American Progress
NPR
Politico
The White House
[Good question?]*
I think the president was very fair and balanced. A bit of Get'r done, and a bit of stay the course.
* Whitehouse YouTube raised interesting question regarding the Oil Spill Recovery Institute. Re: R&D (TED) [UPDATE 6-18-10 links corrected(in *) and added]
Go Ed!
Rachel? (Stopping the tape...)
I guess I took Randi Rhodes' advice, not to watch the talking heads or whatshe calls 'em. Now I am behind the curve as to the reaction that seems a bit off.
I have yet to hear much about his Gulf Restoration Project. Maybe because we need a media restoration project. Meanwhile...
Robert Reich
Marc Ambinder
Think Progress
Center for American Progress
NPR
Politico
The White House
[Good question?]*
I think the president was very fair and balanced. A bit of Get'r done, and a bit of stay the course.
* Whitehouse YouTube raised interesting question regarding the Oil Spill Recovery Institute. Re: R&D (TED) [UPDATE 6-18-10 links corrected(in *) and added]
Wednesday, June 09, 2010
Speaking of jobs...
in editing, reading or writing...I must note:
A few years ago I read Democracies Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy, by Michael J. Sandel. While I did read it (and finish it*), I did only scan several of the chapters after getting bogged down in the legal briefs and what seems like a perspective that was incomplete or leaning a bit.
Meanwhile this just in... to my email inbox.[Michael J. Sandel} I don't know if this calls my conclusions into question or he may have evolved.
A few years ago I read Democracies Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy, by Michael J. Sandel. While I did read it (and finish it*), I did only scan several of the chapters after getting bogged down in the legal briefs and what seems like a perspective that was incomplete or leaning a bit.
Meanwhile this just in... to my email inbox.[Michael J. Sandel} I don't know if this calls my conclusions into question or he may have evolved.
Thursday, June 03, 2010
Pluto, Plato, and the Pen Dull'em
On Competition, Cooperation, and Coordination, in Context.*
* the thread here is not PC, but Progressive Culture or Pop('in) Culture
Rootnote: Conservative Theme?
* the thread here is not PC, but Progressive Culture or Pop('in) Culture
Rootnote: Conservative Theme?
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Revolutionary Hospitals (and Back Again)
Recently a health reform critic(kindly put) claimed that the founding fathers had hospitals and did not mention them in the constitution(awkwardly put), but I cannot adequately paraphrase the rhetoric. But I did wonder at the time if it was accurate. Yesterday NPI, has a different angle on health care reform and technical advances and the baby boom face of more than half of recipients of health care. But an auxiliary question came to mind. When did health care become for profit? But the real question is when did health insurance become for profit? My problem is that there is always a deeper question. Our problem is that too many have the wrong answers*.
Some have such a weak definition of capitalism that it is the nature of economics since the public market. Others don't even realize what the "invisible hand" means? I have not fully read Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, but at least I know he waved it. But I forgot who recently said, it is called the "Invisible Hand" because it is not there ***. While other's still... [trailing off] I might have been heading to a more substantial answer, but my point is that some people get caught up in the debate between dirty words and the only word. Too many are taking sides, especially when it comes to the word "progressive" by playing on fears and taking change for granted, and passing the buck, but not the money**.
In memoriam.
* and without picking sides I would add: too many feel they have the only answer. At least when it comes to history and what we are based on, with intentions to move forward.
** ironically these last two links have a good point in common(well not exactly): but in regards to the baseline, the blogger admits to some essentials or entitlements if you will, at least outside their argument for the need for profit, while Milton Friedman (a Libertarian) suggests a negative income tax to balance the social responsibility of companies to make profits. And entitlements are the real subject for the operating table, but so might be the flat tax and overall safety net reform. Actually speaking of dirty words, reform is not the word, adjustments are all that are needed to . Not that major adjustments might need to be considered in regard to globalization and world finance and diplomacy, which really scares the one word people, not to mention communities. It is not about the finger in the dike or the egg on the wall or the face of humpty dumpty, it is about the hands on the foundation of civilization.
*** maybe him but not here
Other links, invisible hand, or the pointing finger
[Sorry to not point a finer finger, but it is all about the revolving perspectives and finding balance without starting from scratch.]
P.S. I did not read these but did run across them prior this blog, let alone realize at the time I would be back. They could be the concrete mixer, mortar or cobble stone of my thinking.
Some have such a weak definition of capitalism that it is the nature of economics since the public market. Others don't even realize what the "invisible hand" means? I have not fully read Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, but at least I know he waved it. But I forgot who recently said, it is called the "Invisible Hand" because it is not there ***. While other's still... [trailing off] I might have been heading to a more substantial answer, but my point is that some people get caught up in the debate between dirty words and the only word. Too many are taking sides, especially when it comes to the word "progressive" by playing on fears and taking change for granted, and passing the buck, but not the money**.
In memoriam.
* and without picking sides I would add: too many feel they have the only answer. At least when it comes to history and what we are based on, with intentions to move forward.
** ironically these last two links have a good point in common(well not exactly): but in regards to the baseline, the blogger admits to some essentials or entitlements if you will, at least outside their argument for the need for profit, while Milton Friedman (a Libertarian) suggests a negative income tax to balance the social responsibility of companies to make profits. And entitlements are the real subject for the operating table, but so might be the flat tax and overall safety net reform. Actually speaking of dirty words, reform is not the word, adjustments are all that are needed to . Not that major adjustments might need to be considered in regard to globalization and world finance and diplomacy, which really scares the one word people, not to mention communities. It is not about the finger in the dike or the egg on the wall or the face of humpty dumpty, it is about the hands on the foundation of civilization.
*** maybe him but not here
Other links, invisible hand, or the pointing finger
[Sorry to not point a finer finger, but it is all about the revolving perspectives and finding balance without starting from scratch.]
P.S. I did not read these but did run across them prior this blog, let alone realize at the time I would be back. They could be the concrete mixer, mortar or cobble stone of my thinking.
Wednesday, December 02, 1970
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