Provo gangs

Gangs in Provo? http://tinyurl.com/ProvoGangs

Interesting epistemlogical question: are we judging only the present actualities, or the potentialities?

Dithering

Telling article, because it's in the Times:

Last week the national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Thomas J. Tradewell Sr., gave voice to the concerns of those in the military when he issued a terse statement criticizing Mr. Obama’s review of Afghan war strategy.

“The extremists are sensing weakness and indecision within the U.S. government, which plays into their hands,” said Mr. Tradewell’s statement

wah, wah, wah

Can there be anything plainer than that the proposed bribes to those on Social Security are a ripoff and a sign that Washington has lost all bearings on spending?

From an alternative universe

Fragment from American History, RandomHouseGoogleGoldmanSachs, Inc., Plano, Texas, 2137:

...... sudden rise in the administration's stature happened shortly after the Russians administered what people then called "a bitch slap" to the U.S. Secretary of State, thus, by extension, the president and the United States.

As described in a "newspaper" -- a primitive information-distribution device of the time -- called the Washington Times:

All this was while Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was in Moscow, trying to find out just how much help the Russians intend to give to the West. Mrs. Clinton could not even see Mr. Putin, the real head man; there was a conflict of schedules and he had to depart for Beijing. This was a remarkable snub, treating the secretary of state as if she were merely the representative of the PTA, lobbying for more vegetables in the school lunchroom. Maybe there really was a conflict; maybe Mr. Putin had scheduled a haircut at the only hour she was available.

The Russians succeeded in putting Mr. Obama and the Americans in their place. Nikolai Patrushev, the chief of the Presidential Security Council, manufactured an occasion while Mrs. Clinton was in Moscow to warn that Moscow reserves the right to make "a pre-emptive nuclear strike" against both small and large enemies.

It so happened that the president and some of his aides happened to view one of great works of literature of that era. Mr. Obama was heard muttering "nut up or shut up!" as he exited the screening room.

The next day he called a press conference ....

Fresh take on Afghanistan

So why can't China and Russia help us?

NY Times essay: "In Afghanistan, American and Chinese interests converge."

More on global 'warming'

Breaking the hockey stick.

CEO and health reform

now here's a capitalist!

 He calls his concept "conscious capitalism."

What is that? "It means that business has the potential to have a deeper purpose. I mean, Whole Foods has a deeper purpose," he says, now sounding very much like a philosopher. "Most of the companies I most admire in the world I think have a deeper purpose." He continues, "I've met a lot of successful entrepreneurs. They all started their businesses not to maximize shareholder value or money but because they were pursuing a dream."