links for 2009-04-03
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"Give me a break," he said. "Perfectionists are losers."
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Digest for April 2nd through April 4th
Here are some of the people writing about some of the stuff I wish I had time to write about, for April 2nd through April 4th:
- The Trillion-Dollar Question –
- A Crisis of Affordability: How Our Public Colleges Are Turning into Gated Communities for the Wealthy –
- Op-Ed Contributor: A Tortured Inheritance –
- Editorial: ‘Astoundingly Flawed’ –
- Fools on the Hill –
- Executive Pay and the Obscene Culture of Wall Street –
- Estate tax? Now? –
- The Republican Joke-of-a-Budget –
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Progressive Budget, Progressive Values
“Budgets are moral documents”
~ Rev. Jim Wallis“What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility… This is the price and promise of citizenship.”
~Barack Obama, January 20, 2009
There are moments when the contrast of values between progressives and conservatives is clear. Appropriately enough many these moment happen when budgets are considered. The vote on Bush’s 2006 budget was one such moment, and now we are witnessing another.
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Type A is Taking Over
Say it isn’t so.
OK. Granted, I’m a Type C personality.
The hubby and I got a babysitter last night, and went to a party at the home of a friend and former co-worker of mine, and on the way home we had a chance to do something that’s often rare for parents of a young child: talk to each other. Not about our son, or about something that needs to be done around the house. We had a chance to just talk to each other.
On my end, the conversation turned towards something that’s come up more than a few times in my life; that when it comes to personality types, I’m definitely not a “Type A” personality. In fact, I’ve often referred to myself as a “Type B surrounded by Type As”; especially here in D.C., a city which by its very nature seems to be a magnet to for type A personalities.
When I got home, it was still on my mind, so I looked around online, and found this test that would supposedly tell me whether I was a type A or not. I took it, fully expecting it would tell me I was a type B.
I got an answer I wasn’t expecting. It turns out, there’s a third: type C.
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Digest for April 1st through April 2nd
Here are some of the people writing about some of the stuff I wish I had time to write about, for April 1st through April 2nd:
- Editorial: The Forgotten Rich –
- Op-Ed Columnist: At Stake Are More Than Banks –
- Homelessness must be given top priority –
- Ed and Deb Shapiro: Why Only A Loser Would Want Someone To Fail –
- Close These Refuges for Scoundrels –
- Putting the ‘Care’ in Health Care –
- Ian Welsh: The Personal Politics of Hopelessness –
- Barney: GOP suffers psych disorder –
- American Atheists | Top Ten Atheist Myths –
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Requiem for a Dream Job
A dream of mine — or, more specifically, a dream job of mine — may be dying. At the very least it’s in the ICU of broken dreams. The doctors are stumped. The priest has been called.
I haven’t written much lately about my longstanding love of computer/video games. It started back when I was growing up. We got a gaming console. I don’t recall what kind it was, but (and I’m dating myself here) it played Pong.
For those who don’t remember or are too young to remember Pong, it looked something like this.
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Demotivated
This pretty much fits my mood right now.
A few of these are my own creations (made with a new toy I’ve found).
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Digest for April 1st
Here are some of the people writing about some of the stuff I wish I had time to write about, for April 1st from 01:12 to 12:38:
- No, Sen. John Ensign really does want to surround the Federal Government with an armed, unemployed mob –
- We yield the floor to Eleanor Holmes Norton –
- A budget perfect for April Fools' Day –
- “The Pope is either stupid, ignorant or dim” –
- Great scholar of African-American history passes away –
- Death on the Home Front: Women in the Crosshairs –
- Cenk Uygur: Newt Gingrich: My Third Wife Wants Me to be a Good Catholic –
- Fainting in This Country Can Carry a $10,000 Price Tag –
- Op-Ed Columnist: No More Hummer Nation –
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Time to Deliver: The Coming Transformation
Last week, I wrote: “After a transformational election and at the beginning of a transformational presidency, progressives need to remember: the real transformation hasn’t happened yet.” The truth is, there will be a transformation. The question is what kind of transformation.
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