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Category: National Politics

  • Politics as Marketing

    I’ve been thinking more about my post yesterday, the whole Super Committee #FAIL, and the intersection of those two things. I noted yesterday on twitter that: I find it interesting that both sides are calling the stalemated “super committee” a success for not folding. What about solving problems? What about solving problems indeed. So, now…

  • Grover Being Grover

    I watched the interview on 60 Minutes last night. while the Grover to the left may not be the Grover that was the topic of this interview, I think its fair to say that the ideology espoused by Norquist is just as comically reduced as the archetype played by the Grover on Sesame Street…a character…

  • Several Things, and Prolly More

    I’ve been working on a series of special projects over the past week that are likely to continue for some time to come, so blogging will likely be light over here for a while. However, there are several things that have attracted my attention that need to be dealt with, so, here goes. Bill Moyers…

  • Perception, Reality and Role Conflict

    I’ve been thinking a lot about that MTSU poll released last week. One writer called it schizophrenia, I think it’s something more akin to role conflict. Tennesseans should be scratching our heads. On the one hand, we’ve got these very vocal folks who are screaming that if we don’t lower taxes, as long as its…

  • Third Way Scared to Death of Any Third Way Other Than Their Third Way

    This one comes from the Establishment Group that seeks to pretend like its not part of the establishment department. Third Way, the moderate, moderation kinda liking “think tank” is advising the Democratic party to steer clear of the Occupy Wall Street movement reports Jason Linkins for HuffPo. Seems the middle of the roaders have found…

  • Poverty In Memphis

    Everyone has an image in their mind of what poverty looks like. We all have some concept of what it means to live in poverty. Until you’ve lived in and around poverty, until you’ve actually experienced it first hand, you really can’t have any understanding of what it means, what it looks like, and the…