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POPSDetroit Seeks Bailout While Battling States Emissions Standards According to Ralph Waldo Emerson "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do." I wonder if Emerson's little aphorism included government and capitalists pigs?
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POPSCops Taser Man in Diabetic Shock Police Officer's job is a double edged sword. One side is to serve and protect, the other is to keep people in line. When police pull you over, they are in "command mode." If you have trouble responding to their commands, they tase first and ask questions later.
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POPSThe inevitable collapse of the dollar "The path that we're on right now is not sustainable." "The portfolio adjustments will be swift and severe." "There's going to be a major realignment of global living standard." "Every knows the dollar could collapse, but nobody knows where it will start."
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POPSAmerica the Ugly: The Mentally Ill, Behind Bars The civil rights movement of the 1960's was critical in making society consider how a stigmatized group, the mentally ill, should rejoin society at large. Turning the clock back to an earlier era when hospitals would again be an asylum except for exceedingly few people is both unrealistic and retrogressive. Today's solution continues to be the development of small, noninstitutional yet structured places within the community where people live, get treatment and are afforded rehabilitation in social and vocational skills.
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POPSLiving Alone "For the rest of it, the last and greatest art is to limit and isolate oneself" ... Goethe