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The Older I Get, the Less I Understand….
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Public Policy and Governance, Uncategorized on December 20th, 2011
Final week is over, grades are in, and I’ve had more time to read the news. That’s obviously a mixed blessing. There are so many things I just don’t understand. There’s a toaster that embosses the face of Jesus on each piece of bread as it toasts. It is evidently selling briskly. There’s Newt Gingrich. [...]
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Luck of the Draw
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Uncategorized on December 12th, 2011
A friend of mine used to have a saying to the effect that he’d rather be lucky than smart. While I think President Obama is pretty darn smart, if current trends continue, he may also prove to be very, very lucky. Conventional wisdom–which is conventional because it tends to be right fairly often–is that Presidents [...]
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Reich Hits the Nail on the Head
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Uncategorized on December 3rd, 2011
I don’t always agree with Robert Reich, the former Secretary of Labor in the Clinton Administration, but in this post, he hits the proverbial nail squarely on the head. What contemporary Republicans are selling is reheated and reconstituted Social Darwinism. (And just for the record, Darwin never used the phrase “survival of the fittest.” Herbert [...]
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It’s All About the Framing
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Uncategorized on December 2nd, 2011
A recent report in Salon quotes Frank Luntz as being “very scared” of Occupy Wall Street. Luntz, for those who don’t know, is the GOP “messaging” genius who came up with terms like “death tax” to rebrand the estate tax, and who urges Republicans to abandon use of the word capitalism in favor of terms [...]
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Polite Company
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Uncategorized on November 30th, 2011
Remember the old saying to the effect that one shouldn’t discuss religion or politics in polite company? Last night, I think I observed a slightly different version, to wit: people with wildly different political orientations can be perfectly pleasant to each other if they avoid discussing specific policies. I realize this isn’t exactly practical as [...]
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