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Pretty pictures

Posted in Commentary, News, Politics, Uncategorized with tags , , , , , on April 15, 2011 by B Schiff

Ideas  rip the blood of bad actors of no repute and aria singers of no legend.  Unorthodox hard edged filters of desperation protect us from the no nonsense void.  Life churns.  The humble ruminate.  The grand reflect.  The rooted sincere have no idle moments.  We all draw pretty pictures.

Rat bastards and sultry party girls  know public interest.  Deficient lay persons come awash with scandal and comprehension.  The thoughts of the  fates  are the stuff of legend while public minds and group clouds make definitive statements.   Right thinking wonders are never astray while cogent minds contemplate their navels and grovel at the feet of those who know better.

Surveys of note.

Power Survey

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/04/who-has-too-much-power-in-america/237312/

Public Opinion on Capitalism

http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/04/public_opinion_capitalism

http://bschiff.com/   the rancid bastards ….. the true…..the dumb ……  the honored creed…..the books I am pushing ….

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Not tomorrow

Posted in Commentary, News, Politics, Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , , on April 14, 2011 by B Schiff

Dark actors stave off will and protection.  Weak actors stave off  glory and backbone.  Anarchy, off blue saviors, the color of  any which way you wish.

Good bedfellows sing me sad songs.  Good bedfellows bless the beasts and the children.  Good thieves are good enemies.

Please protect me from freedom.  Please protect me from protection.  Let me habituate in the wild and be an animal.

Government is a rant.  The oppressive might of the wage slave is an illusive quality.  Where to find a balance?  Where to find the love?  The tears of a clown.

Complacency, protection.  Private.  Public.  The head spins.  My individuality.  My community.  My world.  My rough hewn self.  My charismatic, empathetic heart.  Oh, the misery of existence.  The traps of my tears.  The cries of my conscience.

Washington Post….

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-okla-a-beneficiary-sours-on-federal-spending/2011/04/10/AFd24AHD_story.html

The Economist

http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/04/public_opinion_capitalism

http://bschiff.com/   the rancid bastards ….. the true…..the dumb ……  the honored creed…..the books I am pushing ….

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To think a world deeply

Posted in Commentary, News, Politics, Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , on April 11, 2011 by B Schiff

Always the nature of fun and games.  The workings of societies and systems soar the heart, spring the spirit.  The bum outsiders know all and change is always needed and all unentrenched minions are never wont to not be open for the better worlds that await…..and await with dreamy fervor.

A simple game to get from A to B.  The world changes.  It sways in ways honorable and profound.  Except when it does not.  Those of good will are always wished well by those of good will.  The guns matter…. all manner and stripe.  The rancid little polka dot guns of simple salvation matter.  Bang bang you are a dumb bastard.

Two views on things that are newly minted……an analysis of Italy….The grand Italians…..a tear for the structure and questions that seem to bear thought and warrant refection.

In The New Yorker.  Booted  by Tim Parks

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2011/04/11/110411crat_atlarge_parks

The great paeans to the social tools of the new world.  May they be so wonderful.

New York Review of Books

The Internet: For better or for Worse   By Steve Coll

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/apr/07/internet-better-or-worse/

http://bschiff.com/   the rancid bastards ….. the true…..the dumb ……  the honored creed…..the books I am pushing ….

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A quickie because the American people gave me a mandate

Posted in Commentary, News, Politics, Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , on April 8, 2011 by B Schiff

……..They came to me in the night and and demanded that I do my bidding

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Talk always talk. Write always write. Degenerate always degenerate.

Posted in Commentary, News, Politics, Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , on April 6, 2011 by B Schiff

I know, I know….Anyone who distributes news and information has an agenda, is a mouthpiece, is annoying, bothers the hell out of people…..

Either they are old and moldy.  Fat and comfortable.  Puffed up, insulated and lazy.  Callous free loaders who are agent provocateurs.

They might be young and on the make.  They might be the wonders who translate events for a new news consuming public in a new news consuming environment.

We all have our favorites, our hates, our disposable clowns.  So much information.  So much endeavor.  so many brave and fearless scribes who comfort the afflicted, afflict the comfortable.  Who could be jaundiced.? Who can say they are not worth the prize of our attention?

Is journalism dead?  Is it better? Is it sincere?

It does brave the questions of our survival.

Two views.: one hand wringing, one celebration.  I’ll do both.  One for fun.  One in tribute to the solid stodgy set.

From The Columbia Journalism Review a month or two back:

http://www.cjr.org/editorial/beyond_the_facts.php

Roger Simon in Politico:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/52523.html

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Statistics, Damned Statistics. Damned Lies

Posted in Commentary, News, Politics, Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , , on April 5, 2011 by B Schiff

One could be a long time follower of the deceptive crafts, a long time lover of the  of parochial crafts of the political operative.  One can be a long time follower of all of the stars of all of the games, all of the felons of all of the games.  The ribald, the antiquated, those with the endearing mouths full of fun and fancy, gibberish and noise …these make me proud.   The grand and the intense, the frolicsome and the tedious, the major harmonies and bittersweet songs of the eminently sincere….these make me weep.  The lure of  a molten train wreck……the stuff of legend and the lifeblood of the passing scene.

Statistics, Damned statistics, damned lies.  The godly rational saints give us all gusto and purpose.

Two examples of the world as it is lived.

Lynnell Hancock   Columbia Journalism Review

http://www.cjr.org/cover_story/tested.php

From The Economist

http://www.economist.com/node/18483411

It takes a lot to be sure of a lot.

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