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POPSthe altruism in economics stories from 09.......that may inspire- not your back stabby- finger pointing yatada...but people doing things to make a difference for all- in a positive manner-
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POPSThis is What Makes America Great In spite of all the blather coming forth from capital hill, this story once again proves the greatness of America. When the American people are FREE to live their lives and make their own decisions, we have proven time and again the USA is an altruistic nation. Although the current crop of political hacks continually speak down our nation and our economy, there are still hope for change. America is still great because her people are great.
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POPSShallow Shouting from The Left "In a society that broke, on behalf of merit, the seemingly eternal chains of station by birth, they cry 'injustice.' In the names of fantasy worlds and mystical perfections, they have closed themselves to the Western, liberal miracle of individual rights, individual responsibility, merit, and human satisfaction. Like Marx, they put words like 'liberty' in quotation marks when these refer to the West…."
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POPSThe one Suharto analysis you should read Unspun has not high regard for the FEER but thinks highly of Jeremy Wagstaff, a former correspondent for the Asian Wall Street Journal and now a tech columnist and a blogger to boot. In the analytical piece below you will see why. Way before he reinvented himself into a tech columnist Jeremy was covering politics and the economy in Indonesia. He is one of the rare journalists Unspun knows who 1. can write well (most can't, some even can't spell or string two sentences together - they have copyeditors to do that for them) and 2. has enough empathy and intelligence to go below surface appeareances to tap into a nation's psyche. The result is an article that captures the complexity of Suharto the man who came to lead a nation in waiting. Well done Jeremy and for heaven's sake get that book on Suharto out soon.
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POPSClooney Stirs the Writer's Strike Stew The trouble with the strike, which I support, is that the more the good shows, such as they are, are replaced with stupid "reality" shows the more the watchimg public gets dumbed down, as if they aren't already as numb as a bag of frozen liver.
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POPSIs Our Worship of Consumerism and Technology Making Us Depressed? The Unhappiness Taboo There are many possible reasons for the increasing rate of depression among Americans, but I believe that one important cause is a culture that demands happiness. The pressure to be in a good mood can make people ashamed of not being in one. This "pain over pain" can then result in normal low moods becoming prolonged bouts of despair.
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POPSFalwell may be gone, but "We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." ~ John Adams October 11, 1798 "In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own. It is easier to acquire wealth and power by this combination than by deserving them, and to effect this, they have perverted the purest religion ever preached to man into mystery and jargon, unintelligible to all mankind, and therefore the safer engine for their purposes." ~ Thomas Jefferson, letter to Horatio G Spafford March 17, 1814
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POPSGrease Works - a Biodiesel Alternative to Oil! A friend of mine did a conversion on his car and now is driving purely on stuff restaurants typically pay for someone to get rid of. The conversion cost him $1500, because the guy who did it was 'experimenting', but typically it's about half that. You have to have a diesel engine and it's about a day worth of work for someone who knows what he/she's doing.
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