I’m a value-conservative and I favor major health care reform. It’s the answer to families who are under-covered currently, not to mention the 46 million with no health insurance at all (the free-market’s nagging failure). It’s the answer for small businesses which can’t afford major health care coverage for employees. It makes sense financially: France [...]
Posts from ‘August, 2009’
Charity In Truth: The Pope Questions the Moral Integrity of Capitalism
I am not Catholic nor am I a fan of the Pope, including Pope Benedict XVI. Nevertheless, I was greatly impressed by the moral courage he displayed in his recent encyclical “Charity in Truth”. To question the moral integrity of capitalism is no small matter and that is exactly what he did.
Outraged Austin Public Radio Listeners Protest Dropping DJs
Editor’s note: Community and even “public” radio as alternative source of news and music, but I’ve learned the hard way from my involvement at KRFC FM in Fort Collins about the need for “radio-activism” to keep such outlets open to a wider range of opinion and perspectives. I hope this won’t be the [...]
Clint Eastwood’s 2008 thriller Changeling proves axiom: real-life stranger than fiction
Clint Eastwood’s 2008 psychological thriller, Changeling tells the true-life story of mistaken identity, political corruption, and the marginalization of women in 1920’s Los Angeles. A single-mother, Christine Collins (Angelina Jolie), is told by the police she will be reunited with her missing son, only to discover the boy is not really her son. He claims [...]
The Capitalistic Contradiction: Pushing Us Toward Depression
I’m not feeling optimistic about the economic chances of recovery. I think we are headed for a depression.
I’m hoping I’m wrong and that Obama is superman.
I think it is naive to project a recovery in 6 months to a year because that is how long past recessions lasted. Or because eventually a recovery is inevitable. [...]