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| Blog Name: |
Skip's Testing Range |
| Url: |
http://skipmendler.wordpress.com |
| Language: |
English |
| Topics: |
politics, humor, miscellany |
| Description: |
This is the place where I run things up the flagpole and see who salutes - or drop them off the pier and see if they sink or swim or maybe fly... Song lyrics, cartoons, serious essays, jokes, riddles, haiku, limericks, conundrums, jeremiads, modest proposals, random opinions, half baked ideas, film proposals, tongue twisters, bumperstickers, neologisms, reports from Dreamland, bulletins from the Plausible News Service... No telling what might show up next on Skip's Testing Range. |
| Popularity: |
6 Followers |
WHEN AMERICA WAKES
| “WAKE UP, AMERICA!” — frequent talk-show utteranceWhen America wakesit will scrabble for the alarm clockknocking it to the floorWhen America wakesits first thought will be“oh god my head…”When... |
“RESOLVED: the USA is a Plutocracy”…?
| Well, no one has yet offered any cogent arguments that the US is not a plutocracy … so maybe the next step introduce a simple Congressional Resolution that would explicitly recognize Plutocracy, no... |
“(Diggin’ Out Our) Winter Wonderland”
| There’s a big storm a-comin’Sales of shovels are hummin’They say nine to tenOh no not againWe’ll be diggin’ out our winter wonderlandGone for now are the snowbirdsTen to twelve, that’s what I heard... |
Well, there it is
| Didja hear AEI’s Alex Pollock on NPR yesterday?http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121433401>>SIEGEL: So, a banker comes out of the meeting with President Obama at the White House ... |
A Dylan Carol
| Bob Dylan, as you may have heard, recently did released an album of Christmas standards. Reviews have been, uh, mixed. Nonetheless, here’s a piece of what we might have expected instead….I ain’t g... |
THE PEACE AND JUSTICE FILES: GETTING OUR AFFAIRS IN ORDER
| Here’s my column for December:
In one of those interesting coincidences, my father’s death came a few hours after Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, one of the events generally seen as marking the start of the so-called “financial meltdown” of 2008. So this year, between those events and the healthcare debate, I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about the financial system… and mortality. The two, I’ve come to realize, are deeply intertwined.
Consider the language of simplicity: in talking about creating more sustainable lifestyles, we frequently use phrases like “slowing down,” “cutting back” and “letting go” – and aren |
What to do with those wornout shoes
| Just a reminder from the Bush Regime Memorial Society:Don’t forget, December 14 is SHOE DAY – the anniversary of the famous George W. Bush shoe-throwing incident. To commemorate the occasion, and ... |
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