I have been madly busy and have fallen behind in this blog. Sorry. I have gathered a bunch of great material, but I feel like a late-night talk show host during the Carter administration. There is just so much fodder it is often hard to choose. So I’m still busy teaching a three week class, but I’ve found these two items that are too good not to share. Hope you enjoy them as much as I did.
This blogger does a very good job of pulling together a bunch of information about the nature of the Obama presidency. There is just so much information that you are certain to have missed some of it. One of my continuing fears is that this administration is just flooding us with radical ideas under the banner of “change.” If you put enough of this junk out there, some might agree to a large portion of it on the basis of, “well, at least we stopped them from (fill in the blank).” This is not a negotiation where we can afford to “split the difference” and those of you who know me or have attended my negotiation classes already know, it is no secret that I consider that a horribly weak negotiation ploy in the first place. Take a look at this and explore the links for those items with which you are not familiar. It is well worth the time and will encourage you to continue to fight the good fight.
http://thebobofiles.com/?p=1681
And this guy is just fascinating. Even though he teaches at Loyola College in my home state, I’ve never heard of him. But after reading this – I like him!
What he does is postulate the theorem of “Single Payer Groceries.” If health care has become a constitutional right, then it seems that eating ought to be right up there as well. And he notes a connection. Since many of today’s major health issues are life-style related, by making single payer groceries the norm, the government can control what we eat. Very entertaining, but in the final analysis – very scary.
