Addendum II...

IT is good learn that someone is calling out the right-wing propaganda machine. It's called Fox News Watchdog.

Addendum ...

GOOD for Krugman: He lays out the voodoo economics of the Republican witch doctors.

Friday, July 16, 2010

THE commentary of William Pfaff is almost always on point: In this instance, what Obama should have told BP.

Quoting ...

Look, if you had told me that we had just arrested 11 Finns who were spying on our schools, then I’d really have felt good — since Finland’s public schools always score at the top of the world education tables. If you had told me that 11 Singaporeans were arrested spying on how our government works, then I’d really have felt good — since Singapore has one of the cleanest, well-run bureaucracies in the world and pays its cabinet ministers $1 million-plus a year. If you had told me that 11 Hong Kong Chinese had been arrested studying how we regulate our financial markets, then I’d really have felt good — since that is something Hong Kong excels at. And if you had told me that 11 South Koreans were arrested studying our high-speed bandwidth penetration, then I’d really have felt good — because we’ve been lagging them for a long time.

But the Russians? Who wants to be spied on by them?

— Thomas L. Friedman in the New York Times.

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“IT wouldn’t do us a whole boatload of harm to reinstate some values to contemplation. Part of the pressure on older people to be successful and give back and volunteer and be active and play tennis is that we are a culture of doing. We don’t really know how to be. That’s something that late life gives us, is time to be. But that’s stigmatized.”

—Anne Basting, director of the Center on Age and Community at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, commenting to the New York Times.

Sunday, July 11, 2010

PROJECT Censored is an interesting "alternative" news site — for what the "mainstream" will not tell us.