Nine myths about the deficit...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lynn-parramore/the-deficit-nine-myths-we_b_553527.html
 

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Bon mot from Evo Morales: "Coca cola is the poor man's Draino..."

The article below from Time magazine is a bit more sympathetic toward a South American leftist (Morales) than U.S. media usually is--but: 

 

I don't have a settled opinion whether or not reparations to the developing world for the effects of climate change would be an adequate or even a Good Thing, the remark  that $400 billion is an "unrealistic" figure for Third World activists to demand is, I think, way wrong. 

 

Our "crackpot realists," to use C. Wright Mills phrase, are forever trying to postpone the absolutely necessary by smearing it as "unrealistic"--whether reparations is a good idea or not, $400 billion may be more than a drop in the bucket for the developed world, but it's hardly more than a puddle, especially considering the costs of inaction about climate change...

 

R.

 

 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20100423/wl_time/08599198406400
 

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The Dalai Lama is one of--well, some of us...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_socialism

 

The Dalai Lama's remarks are particularly interesting in the light of Tibet's quite legitimate quarrel with China...
 

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Panspermia--the manifesto (for anybody who cares)

N.B.  The position neither rules out nor rules in metaphysical or religious presuppositions.

 

http://www.panspermia.org/intro.htm
 

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