9/11 Memorial (Taken with Instagram at 9/11 Memorial)
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. -- Douglas Adams
A beautiful weekend in Manhattan.
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Sigh….
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A lonely desk toy longs for escape from the dark confines of the office, so he takes a cross country road trip to the Pacific Coast in the only way he can – using a toy car and Google Maps Street View. — By Tom Jenkins of The Theory
Kalle Lasn and Micah White, the Creators of Occupy Wall Street
Kalle Lasn spends most nights shuffling clippings into a binder of plastic sleeves, each of which represents one page of an issue of Adbusters, a bimonthly magazine that he founded and edits. It is a tactile process, like making a collage, and occasionally Lasn will run a page with his own looped cursive scrawl on it. From this absorbing work, Lasn acquired the habit of avoiding the news after dark. So it was not until the morning of Tuesday, November 15th, that he learned that hundreds of police officers had massed in lower Manhattan at 1 A.M. and cleared the camp at Zuccotti Park. If anyone could claim responsibility for the Zuccotti situation, it was Lasn: Adbusters had come up with the idea of an encampment, the date the initial occupation would start, and the name of the protest—Occupy Wall Street. Now the epicenter of the movement had been raided. Lasn began thinking of reasons that this might be a good thing.
‘The Umbrella Man’
On the 48th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Errol Morris takes a critical look at the one man seen standing under an open black umbrella at the site.
Third Way: Failure is Failure - An Open Letter to Leadership
Co-sign.
The self-titled “supercommittee” failed to come to an agreement concerning how to tackle America’s debt, which isn’t that much of a surprise to any one who has followed the ordeal.
What is surprising is that Congress is now trying to role back the automatic triggers that were meant to motivate the committee to come to an agreement. So not only did Congress fail to meet the task at hand, they are now trying to undo the agreement that was made four months ago. This isn’t just unproductive, it’s counterproductive.
These recent developments leave me wondering if our political system even works any longer. I’ve completely lost faith that Congress is concerned for the greater good of the country.
Third Way, a think tank that supports moderate politics and policies, penned a great open letter to Congress. In it, they express hope that a major deal can still be reached to raise revenues and cut spending, but I’m less confident.
If Congress couldn’t act now, when? After 2012 elections? Maybe. If that’s the case, we’re practically admitting that our government cannot function properly three out of every four years.
Sadly, that might very well be the case.
