January 2011
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Snow Job
Demonstrators in Liberation Square, Cairo
The Tunisians, Egyptians, Yemenis, Jordanians, and now the Russians are protesting the entrenched economic injustice in their countries. Using the new social media internet tools at their disposal to organize their own people’s revolutions, they have finally been able to start shoveling out of the snow job that was burying them for decades.
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State of Union in Congress
Watched the speech last night and one thing was hard for Greg and me to ignore. While Obama was saying some pretty reasonable things that would appeal to the lower 98% of Americans and getting substantial applause, new House Speaker John Boehner—with the camera noting his every seat shift and nose scratch—was forced to sit on his hands to appease his radical and obstructive base and...
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Mr. Twitter
Celebrating the results of a hand-shoveled, really long driveway.
Mr. Twitter tweets through events, not on the Web. Yet our blog is is sent to Twitter automatically, usually with the first line of the post. So in reference to today’s post on Twitter, it will say “Mr. Twitter tweets through events…
What does this have to do with celebrating a hand-shoveled, really long...
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January Jumps To eARTh
Some of the event-goers at January Jump, including three of the six players for the evening. See if you can find them.
The joint—that’d be eARTh—was jumpin’ on Saturday night for C3A’s January Jump Piano Bar, which celebrated Greg’s grandparent’s storied 1914 Steinway by featuring 6 players to tickle her ivories. She was all polished and tuned for the...
Imagine a Corporate-Free TV News
Deb here. Caught the end of an interview with Aaron Sorkin, writer for The West Wing and screenwriter for The Social Network. He noted the huge inequities in our society—nothing new there, since the top 1% bennies are well known. He also reminded me about the Fairness Doctrine America that used to exist for TV and radio broadcasting. President Reagan and Co. got rid of that in...
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MLK Day - Hunger for Peace and Love
“Hunger” by Greg Layton oil on canvas 1976
Action in the country. Dateline Saturday, Jan. 13th. Hunter and Blaze Davidson, sons of our neighbors Randy and Sharon, blaze a trail on their saucer and plastic sleds down our snowy hill. They soon give up —the snow is too soft. I tell Deb that the way the kids describe the hill sounds like it...
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Two Bar Patrons Duking It Out Of Class
Two people enter a bar from different directions. Dressed Down (D.D.) and Dressed UP (D.U.) sit next to each other.
Bartender: So D.U., what’ll it be today?
D.U.: Beer. And make it bitter.
BT: Howz ‘bout you, D.D.?
D.D.: Grey Goose martini, shaken not stirred if you please.
D.U.: Well lah-ti dah!
D.D.: What’s your problem? Are you one of those class warfare...
The Time for Big Talk is Over
The Republicans have been talking the bellicose and partisan for a long time. Now it’s time for them to walk the walk. Where are they going to find the cuts? Where are they going to find the jobs? Will they really look at the bloated defense budget? Also, I’ve already heard that they are asking D.C. lobbyists what they want—a new open door policy to a (too often) known...
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You can't judge a Steinway by its Cover
Lennon’s famous “Imagine” Steinway piano
My three brothers and I, growing up on Kings Hwy in Caln Twp., all took piano lessons on what we considered an old beat-up 1914 upright piano that had been my grandmother’s. Since we were outdoor types that loved competing in sports, these lessons became the bane of our existence. My Mom would...