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Dominance Games: The dumb …… the honored creed. The rancid bastards …… the true.

Posted in Commentary, News, Politics, Uncategorized, writing with tags , , , , , , , on April 20, 2011 by B Schiff

The dumb …… the honored creed. The rancid bastards …… the true.

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Books …… Death Seeks His Muse…..A Novella     ………  A Muse in Time ….. A Novella ……..    Dominance Games: An Essay on Power     A Novel    …….. Lust Games: An Essay on Honor    A Novel      ……… Void Games: An Essay on Revenge     A novel ….

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And now the dawn looks bright

Posted in Commentary, News, Politics, Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , on April 19, 2011 by B Schiff

Then and again.  Always then and again.  Always the mystique of humanity in flux.  Always the mystique of humanity traversing the problems of existence in ways practical, necessary, burdening, resting.

Invitations to commingle with the fates come upon us often and we get mellow at the thought.  Forever the mysteries of the fair and noble society haunts our aspirations and our dreams.  Up from the muck comes our climb.  Up from the muck comes the climb of those who see in their own betterment the betterment for all, those who see in the ordered world the safe havens for all, those who see in the world held as a beacon a standard for all.  We have our aspirations, our lusts, our meaningful diversions.  We have our firm foundations of good moral backbone and glorious antecedents in whose memory we cherish the fight.  Honor.  Always honor.  The gods appreciate honor.

Talking points: The Week Magazine

New York Times Book Review

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/books/review/book-review-the-origins-of-political-order-by-francis-fukuyama.html?_r=1&nl=books&emc=booksupdateema3

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

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Easy sometimes

Posted in Commentary, News, Politics, Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , on April 17, 2011 by B Schiff

Easy sometimes.

Heroic measures stand for staunchness against the floods of barbaric pressures.  Heroic measures are bloody but unbowed, tough and straight as a steel arrow, suffer no fools and right all wrongs.

Defenders.

http://www.economist.com/node/18010553?story_id=18010553

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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/

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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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Men good and true.

Posted in Commentary, News, Politics, Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , on April 4, 2011 by B Schiff

Its hard to be continually enthralled by the news and views that are out there for splendid perusal.  The world is such a tough place.  The big players are so demonstrably sparkling and barren, jaundiced and hypocritical, universally good and admired.  A tough game life.  Played smartly by the fit and the survivors.  It is good to be a survivor.  It is good to be a winner.

First everybody’s favorite little tax story.  Look at the leverage.  Look at the competition for stateless entities.  And some don’t really like to game and trump the system.  All for the greater good.  Always and forever.  And smartness and toughness is no crime.  Let me in on the action.

David Kocieniewski in the New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/business/economy/25tax.html?scp=1&sq=David%20%20Kocieniewski&st=cse

From The Week Magazine:

http://theweek.com/article/index/213728/who-leads-the-war-in-libya

Surely there are rational informed people who understand international relations and the greater good and mutual respect and the concerns of men and women of good will everywhere.

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For the record……my about page

Posted in Commentary, News, Politics, Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , on April 3, 2011 by B Schiff

My aim is erudition, awareness, cynicism, waste of nonsense.  There is an abundance of the latter, a small smattering of the former.  My heart goes with the nonsense…it is the more accessible and mundane, the honored creed.  My gut goes with the former…..why not be a rancid bastard after all?

The books I am pushing…..

Dominance Games: An Essay on Power    A Novel

Lust Games: An Essay on Honor     A Novel

Void Games: An Essay on Revenge     A Novel ….. coming this summer

information and availability: eBooks etc

http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/bschiff

Print versions

Dominance Games: An Essay on Power A Novel
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1460916069/ref=ord_cart_shr?ie=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER
https://www.createspace.com/3563938

Lust Games: An essay on Honor A Novel
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1460925858/ref=ord_cart_shr?ie=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER
http://www.createspace.com/3565665

Kindle

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004SHEV74

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004SHEX0Y

Erudition, awareness, cynicism,  nonsense.   The latter, the former.  We get what we get.  We see what we see.  We stroke what we stroke.

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More insightful information and commentary will be forthcoming

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How sweet the bottom? A hard charging, heart thumping drive.

Posted in Commentary, News, Politics, Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , on April 3, 2011 by B Schiff

More interesting ideas from idea land.  Power and sovereignty, private enterprise, public control.  The mind reels.  Day in.  Day out.   The mind knows that businessmen are doers and makers of growth and progress.  The mind knows that states and governments are encompassing behemoths who gobble up all air and do no earthly good.  But who has sovereignty where?  Who has power where?  What is a national boundary? When lumped together in a much larger sample, what happens to the mean?  Who runs the ball park?  Who owns the ball?

More on the race to the bottom.  How fast is fast enough?  How slow is not at all?  In the long run all is well.  In the long run, famously, we are all bye bye.  Where do we get to ride out the short run?  In the sun?  In the desert”  Under a rock? To whom do we all bow?  And how far?  And do we do it prettily, with some mild awareness, with none, or are we happy for the chance to look for more and more odious masters?  Or perfumed ones?  All in the perception.  Of course.

Two links on the state of today.    Always the state of today.

Allan Sloan in Fortune.

http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2011/03/02/two-governors-two-parties-one-solution/

Michael Schuman in Time

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2059521_2059693_2059692,00.html

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My Introduction

Posted in Commentary, News, Politics, Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , on March 31, 2011 by B Schiff

My new little adventure……my new little blog……

Having declared myself a writer of note I now need to connect with all of those out there who would show utmost appreciation for my sterling endeavors….my books….my general info right now can be referenced at bschiff.com……my half done web site…

In the mean a reason for posting….

The clutter and anemia in information is startling and overwhelming….I have a few pet peeves about the way the world is perceived …and about the importance given to a lot of eminently sanguine approaches to information and opinions ad nauseam….My own two cents….For the sake of having something worthwhile to say

Start with these two posts from The Economist……

Suckers are born every minute…Those who play the suckers good get well…the rest get to stay suckers

Buttonwood:  Marx, Merwyn or Mario

http://www.economist.com/node/18443402?story_id=18443402

Where Life is Cheap and Talk is Loose

http://www.economist.com/node/18396240?story_id=18396240

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