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Monday October 19, 2009
. . . .The order has changed up in the playlist and there are some other cuts. I'm still working off the 10 greatest CD's of music from 2009 that you should be listening to, but probably aren't.
. . . .A couple of more book recommendations to go with the ones I made a couple of 3 weeks ago. Both are in the same vein and strain as those others.
- Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government by P.J. O'Rourke is one I highly recommend. P.J., of course, cut his teeth a couple of decades ago at National Lampoon. His writing is sharp, biting, incisive and takes no prisoners. This particular one is his take on why Washington just plain doesn't work anymore, and of course I'm biased, since it reflects my particular view, that Congress exists for only one reason, and that's to be bought off by lobbyists, PAC's and campaign contributors and be their Sherpa's, schlepping legislation, money and favors for them.
- Government's End by Jon and Jonathan Rauch is another work on what went wrong over the last 3 decades and how government has completely splintered into special interest groups that exist only for their own survival, prosperity and growth; and spend their time working against other special interest groups fighting for crumbs from the table.
. . . .There are some people I read every day, that help shape the thought here and I want to list them.
- Bob Cesca - Bob, and his sometime two contributors, have some of the sharpest wit around and a keen eye for hypocrisy in action
- Andrew Sullivan - The measured, considered voice of true conservative thought, someone from a different era really, trying to live in today and provide that voice of the loyal opposition to the extremists who have taken the conservative movement over and hijacked it.
- Paul Krugman - One of only 5 economists to call what was going to happen a full year ahead of time, and bore the brunt of the derision of a lot his colleagues, but he was right, and he continues to be the voice of the "loyal opposition" to this current Administration's fiscal policies
- Matt Taibbi - Hunter S. Thompson's heir-apparent. Matt's gonzo journalism and razor sharp intellect are keenly honed in on Wall Street and Washington, after living 5 years in a collapsed, corrupt Soviet Union and bravely exposing the rot there, it takes a lot to scare Matt
- Deus ExMalcontent - Chez Pazienza is a blogger, author, novelist, television producer and an all-around Gen X renaissance man.
- The Political Carnival - Daffy and GottaLaff take absolutely no prisoners and have a way of formatting it and presenting it so that it's easy to look through the looking glass at the absolute circus that media, politics and Washington all make together in one big greasy pudding.
- Matthew Yglesias - Matthew, more of a policy wonk than anything else, provides the depth and good writing behind what a lot of people may only devote a paragraph to, and he can provide the background and explanations.
- Frank Rich - New York Times op-ed writer, who twice a week takes on policy issues that need examination.
- Ezra Klein - The Washington Post domestic policy writer, with his finger on the pulse of the Beltway.
. . . .Personally, I use GoogleReader and Yahoo Reader, both, to bundle up their RSS feeds and keep them moving across my desktop so I can stay constantly on top of what they're writing.
. . . .And the reason that I give you those, and tell you to go ahead, let the music play, catch up on my old columns, life has caught up with me, and one of my most faithful readers, and my biggest and first fan is in the hospital tonight, in intensive care, my Mother, and I'm stuck out at sea, at my job, 40 knot winds, and 14 foot seas. All I can do is wait now.
No pen name tonight, she deserves my real name.
. . . . . .Kiss your kids and your family. Tell the ones you love that you do, out loud and let them know it. This rodeo is a one-way ticket, and no one gets out alive, no one. So it's not about yesterday or tomorrow, it's about right here, right now, and no time else, don't wait.
Kip
. . . .The order has changed up in the playlist and there are some other cuts. I'm still working off the 10 greatest CD's of music from 2009 that you should be listening to, but probably aren't.
. . . .A couple of more book recommendations to go with the ones I made a couple of 3 weeks ago. Both are in the same vein and strain as those others.
- Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government by P.J. O'Rourke is one I highly recommend. P.J., of course, cut his teeth a couple of decades ago at National Lampoon. His writing is sharp, biting, incisive and takes no prisoners. This particular one is his take on why Washington just plain doesn't work anymore, and of course I'm biased, since it reflects my particular view, that Congress exists for only one reason, and that's to be bought off by lobbyists, PAC's and campaign contributors and be their Sherpa's, schlepping legislation, money and favors for them.
- Government's End by Jon and Jonathan Rauch is another work on what went wrong over the last 3 decades and how government has completely splintered into special interest groups that exist only for their own survival, prosperity and growth; and spend their time working against other special interest groups fighting for crumbs from the table.
. . . .There are some people I read every day, that help shape the thought here and I want to list them.
- Bob Cesca - Bob, and his sometime two contributors, have some of the sharpest wit around and a keen eye for hypocrisy in action
- Andrew Sullivan - The measured, considered voice of true conservative thought, someone from a different era really, trying to live in today and provide that voice of the loyal opposition to the extremists who have taken the conservative movement over and hijacked it.
- Paul Krugman - One of only 5 economists to call what was going to happen a full year ahead of time, and bore the brunt of the derision of a lot his colleagues, but he was right, and he continues to be the voice of the "loyal opposition" to this current Administration's fiscal policies
- Matt Taibbi - Hunter S. Thompson's heir-apparent. Matt's gonzo journalism and razor sharp intellect are keenly honed in on Wall Street and Washington, after living 5 years in a collapsed, corrupt Soviet Union and bravely exposing the rot there, it takes a lot to scare Matt
- Deus ExMalcontent - Chez Pazienza is a blogger, author, novelist, television producer and an all-around Gen X renaissance man.
- The Political Carnival - Daffy and GottaLaff take absolutely no prisoners and have a way of formatting it and presenting it so that it's easy to look through the looking glass at the absolute circus that media, politics and Washington all make together in one big greasy pudding.
- Matthew Yglesias - Matthew, more of a policy wonk than anything else, provides the depth and good writing behind what a lot of people may only devote a paragraph to, and he can provide the background and explanations.
- Frank Rich - New York Times op-ed writer, who twice a week takes on policy issues that need examination.
- Ezra Klein - The Washington Post domestic policy writer, with his finger on the pulse of the Beltway.
. . . .Personally, I use GoogleReader and Yahoo Reader, both, to bundle up their RSS feeds and keep them moving across my desktop so I can stay constantly on top of what they're writing.
. . . .And the reason that I give you those, and tell you to go ahead, let the music play, catch up on my old columns, life has caught up with me, and one of my most faithful readers, and my biggest and first fan is in the hospital tonight, in intensive care, my Mother, and I'm stuck out at sea, at my job, 40 knot winds, and 14 foot seas. All I can do is wait now.
No pen name tonight, she deserves my real name.
. . . . . .Kiss your kids and your family. Tell the ones you love that you do, out loud and let them know it. This rodeo is a one-way ticket, and no one gets out alive, no one. So it's not about yesterday or tomorrow, it's about right here, right now, and no time else, don't wait.
Kip
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Sending positive thoughts to you and your family...
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