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Suburban Guerrilla (featured blog Feb 13 - Feb 20)
Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Updated: 35 min 53 sec ago How To Be Happy In A RecessionDeepak Chopra:
To be happy in a recession means, first and foremost, resisting all the threats that fear possesses. Don’t obsess anxiously over what you could lose. Don’t reduce your world to a bank account or a 401k. Isn’t there an upside to losing some “consumer buying power”? To be honest, we went too far with consumerist mania. By any measure this is an inordinately rich country, and instead of mourning sagging profit margins, can’t we use the current slowdown to ask what makes for true personal happiness?
Relationship. Gratitude. Appreciation. Compassion. Mutual regard. Strong social connections. Love you can trust.
I don’t know why it takes a crisis to bring out those fundamental human qualities. But it often does. We all realize that the next video game, the next new ... Read the rest of "How To Be Happy In A Recession"
Eating His HatKevin Drum.... Read the rest of "Eating His Hat"
Waiting For MailRemember when the Postal Service actually did its job?
In interviews with the Daily News, postal service employees and a manager have described chaotic conditions in the chronically understaffed plant, which processes nearly six million pieces of mail a day on Lindbergh Boulevard near Island Avenue.
In recent months, a manager and several employees said, unsorted mail sat for weeks in overflowing bins on the plant floor or was stuffed into trailers in the parking lot and - in some cases - even shipped in desperation to other distribution plants, from where it often returned for sorting days later.
In some cases, the mail was destroyed, the employees said.
The postal employees and a manager spoke to the Daily News on condition of anonymity, saying they feared retribution if they spoke publicly.... Read the rest of "Waiting For Mail"
Look UpTonight:
Every once in a while, something will appear in the night sky that will attract the attention of even those who normally don’t bother looking up. It’s likely to be that way on Monday evening, Dec. 1.
A slender crescent moon, just 15-percent illuminated, will appear in very close proximity to the two brightest planets in our sky, Venus and Jupiter.
People who are unaware or have no advance notice will almost certainly wonder, as they cast a casual glance toward the moon on that night, what those two “large silvery stars” happen to be? Sometimes, such an occasion brings with it a sudden spike of phone calls to local planetariums, weather offices and even police precincts. Not a few of these calls excitedly inquire about “the UFOs” that are hovering in the vicinity of our natural ... Read the rest of "Look Up"
Who’d A Thunk ItSomehow, this will still turn out to be the fault of the Democrats:
WASHINGTON – The Bush administration backed off proposed crackdowns on no-money-down, interest-only mortgages years before the economy collapsed, buckling to pressure from some of the same banks that have now failed. It ignored remarkably prescient warnings that foretold the financial meltdown, according to an Associated Press review of regulatory documents.
“Expect fallout, expect foreclosures, expect horror stories,” California mortgage lender Paris Welch wrote to U.S. regulators in January 2006, about one year before the housing implosion cost her a job.
Bowing to aggressive lobbying — along with assurances from banks that the troubled mortgages were OK — regulators delayed action for nearly one year. By the time new rules were released late in 2006, the toughest of th... Read the rest of "Who’d A Thunk It"
Tipping Point?No acorns this year. (h/t Avedon)... Read the rest of "Tipping Point?"
R.I.P.Doris “Tanta” Dungey, 47, blogger at Calculated Risk.... Read the rest of "R.I.P."
Terror TaleThe Wall St. Journal has an in-depth look at the Mumbai attacks:
On the 20th floor, the gunmen shoved the group out of the stairwell. They lined up the 13 men and three women and lifted their weapons. “Why are you doing this to us?” a man called out. “We haven’t done anything to you.”
“Remember Babri Masjid?” one of the gunmen shouted, referring to a 16th-century mosque built by India’s first Mughal Muslim emperor and destroyed by Hindu radicals in 1992.
“Remember Godhra?” the second attacker asked, a reference to the town in the Indian state of Gujarat where religious rioting that evolved into an anti-Muslim pogrom began in 2002.
“We are Turkish. We are Muslim,” someone in the group screamed. One of the gunmen motioned for two Turks in the group to step aside.
Then th... Read the rest of "Terror Tale"
Beware of DarknessYesterday was the 7th anniversary of George Harrison’s death:
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Ghost Under RocksRa Ra Riot:
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Defense Industry ShillRetired general and TV bobblehead Barry McCaffrey:
It’s that bad. As Barstow explained, “On NBC and in other public forums, General McCaffrey has consistently advocated wartime policies and spending priorities that are in line with his corporate interests. But those interests are not described to NBC’s viewers. He is held out as a dispassionate expert, not someone who helps companies win contracts related to the wars he discusses on television.”... Read the rest of "Defense Industry Shill"
While My Guitar Gently WeepsGeorge live at the Concert for Bangladesh:
... Read the rest of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
Daddy You’ve Been On My MindJudy Collins:
... Read the rest of "Daddy You’ve Been On My Mind"
New StudyFast food = Alzheimers.... Read the rest of "New Study"
Please Please MeThe Boys:
... Read the rest of "Please Please Me"
Urge for GoingTom Rush:
... Read the rest of "Urge for Going"
Just Like Tom Thumb’s BluesJudy Collins:
... Read the rest of "Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues"
TweetThere really are a lot of birds singing in my yard this time of the morning - enough to wake up my son when he stayed overnight after Thanksgiving dinner.... Read the rest of "Tweet"
LinkyGo read all of what Avedon posted today.... Read the rest of "Linky"
Don’t Go Down That RoadJuan Cole tells India not to make the same mistakes BushCo did in the wake of terror attacks.... Read the rest of "Don’t Go Down That Road"
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