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POPSThe Problem Is Capitalism, Not Just the Banks This article is based on the Deutscher Lecture which Rick Kuhn, Reader in Political Science at the ANU, will deliver in London on 7 November. Dr. Kuhn's book Henryk Grossman and the Recovery of Marxism won the 2007 Deutscher prize.
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POPSA contradiction This is actually pretty funny. "Hey! Lets get rid of an EVIL tax, and lets just use a simpler one!" That's not getting rid of it, it's just making things more complicated! What is a real tax cut? HUH?
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POPSMarriage Actually "In order to determine which level of judicial scrutiny to apply to Connecticut's civil unions law, the justices first had to determine whether gays qualify as a quasi-suspect class. They used four tests to reach their decision. The first three were relatively easy to answer: One, have gays faced a history of discrimination? (Clearly yes.) Two, does sexual orientation affect "a person's ability to participate in or contribute to society"? (Obviously not.) And, three, is sexual orientation an immutable trait? (On this question, the court hedged a bit, declining to say that sexuality is completely fixed. But it did state that, even if people could change their sexuality, it would be a severe injustice for the government to demand that they do so. In other words, on the immutability question, the court basically said: Close enough."
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POPSPalin's Blown Opportunity on Energy Independence "According to Senator Ron Wyden, the Alaskan gas slated for Asia between 2009 and 2011 could meet the annual consumption of 1.4 million American families. The Oregon Democrat has accused Palin of a "major contradiction" between her support for gas exports and campaign emphasis on more drilling to slake US energy needs. "It's pretty outrageous to scare Americans about energy shortages while she has been approving export of billions of cubic feet of natural gas that could be providing energy to homes in Alaska and the lower 48 states," he said. "
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POPSMcCain has lost touch with reality The poor man doesn't know what is going on. That he and Palin feel they are able to launch any unsubstantiated attack without fear of contradiction (such is their arrogance) but are exempt from criticism. I used to deal with this behaviour on a daily basis when teaching 10 year olds.
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POPS"I'm Barack Obama, and I Approve This Bailout" Both left and right on Main St. oppose the bailout bill, and for good reason. Take a look here at how mad many on the left are. Here is his punch line to the get-a-long Democrats in Congress--call it a hard left hook: To the former, the Democratic Party, I say: your support of this Bill as it stands or in any form that simply hands over money and asks the market to take care of the mess makes you our enemies, not our advocates. ...then he lands one squarely on Obama's jaw: To Barack Obama I say: you are a fraud on public credulity. You are no more a "change" agent than I am the Pope. With your support of this bailout, you have acted in direct contradiction to your promise of change Last chance to call your house rep before they RUIN both the market and the economy with those latest Bailout bill.
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POPSTools for creating ideas More at site. Including, Mind-mapping: Hierarchical breakdown and exploration. Modeling: For the artist in everyone. Morphological Analysis: Forcing combinations of attribute values. Nominal Group Technique: Getting ideas with minimal personal interaction. # PSI: Problem + Stimulus = Idea! Rightbraining: Combine incomplete doodles around the problem. Role-play: Become other people. Let them solve the problem. Reversal: Looking at the problem backwards. Reverse Brainstorming: Seek first to prevent your problem from happening. SCAMPER: Using action verbs as stimuli. Six Thinking Hats: Think comfortably in different ways about the problem. Storyboarding: Creating a visual story to explore or explain. Contradiction Analysis: Use methods already used in many patents. Unfolding: Gradually unfolding the real problem from the outside. # Visioning: Creating a motivating view of the future. Write streaming: Write and write and write until you unblock.
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POPSHow did we ever manage without tasers? Choice Hotels and Noble House Trust may be learning to do that soon - as well as a hard lesson as to the price of turning your good name into rapidly spreading oxymorons. No "Oxymoron" is not a snide reference to Rush Limbaugh. It's an inherent contradiction in terms. Kinda like "Military Intelligence," and (in certain lights "Family Values."
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POPSTim Russert, Tough And Fair In the middle of a voice-over, NBC’s Tim Russert slumped over and was gone. The rumors had been buzzing around Washington D.C. for hours, until Tom Brokaw appeared on the Peacock network and confirmed the news. Every journalist that I’ve spoken with is shocked and slack-jawed. The broadcast lion seemed unstoppable; an irresistible force that would never meet its immovable object. Others who knew him better will talk about personal grace and his unegoistical connections to ordinary people, about his love of his family, his church and his Buffalo Bills. I want to remind you of his public qualities. He was two things that most Washington journalists are not: tough and fair. Among some Catholics, there is a convention when someone passes out of this life and into the next. They say he has “gone home.”
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POPS911 Contradictions An Open Letter to Congress and the Press Dr. Griffin presents a sequence of irrefutable facts drawn from documents and testimony that demonstrate twenty five internal contradictions in the official 9/11 story. As each contradiction is presented, the author juxtaposes documented timelines and official memos, eye-witness testimony, television broadcasts and news articles that are logically inconsistent with the narrative contrived by the 9/11 Commission.
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