Out of the frying pan, into the tangle and the fire.
The new year
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We are not worthy.
For the new year, Charles Pierce at Esquire:
….And, of course, we must never make the perfect the enemy of the good. But you know what else is the enemy of good? Timidity is the enemy of the good. Cruelty is the enemy of the good, and so are selfishness, bigotry, and ignorance. Why perfection is the only enemy of the good that ever seems worth fighting is a good question with which to launch the new year.
It is a dead-level time for us as a people. There are now 146 million Americans who are ranked as “low-income” or “poor.” Somebody really should do something about that. How we treat them in our politics is going to be the ultimate test of our moral credibility as a nation. Do we treat this situation as the national disgrace that it is, and commit ourselves as a nation to eliminating it? Or do we turn away from them, blame them for the malaise we feel in our lives, and drink deeply again from the supply-side, trickle-down snake oil? Do we look at the president – a Democratic president – and scream that this is no longer tolerable to us as a people? Or do we nod sagely and deplore the lack of civility and bipartisan cooperation in our government and hope that cooler heads will prevail, that the great national purpose of our age is to deprive ourselves further of what was supposed to be the promise of the country in the vague and futile hope that somehow, somewhere, things will get better down the line?
The moral act is to scream.
Go. Read the whole thing.
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I don’t want to go through a decade like that again.
BGinKC Blue Girl
@Shoq @c_axis Actually, while the number rolled over to 10 last year, the decade ends at midnight tonight.Since no year 0, decades end in 0. 31 Dec
Bumper stickers in the People’s Republic of Madison – a reflection of the times.
Bumper stickers not in the People’s Republic of Madison – another reflection of the times.
A little bit of good, a lot of bad, frustration, disappointment, and a lot of crazy.
Why is it that so many right wingnut bumper sticker texts end with an exclamation mark? ALL CAPS ISN’T AVAILABLE? Just asking.
mathematicsprof math prof
FINALLY, a prime number year 2011 …. first one since 2003. 31 Dec
mathematicsprof math prof
2011 is also the sum of 11 CONSECUTIVE prime numbers: 2011=157+163+167+173+179+181+191+193+197+199+211
31 Dec
mathematicsprof math prof
2011 is also the sum of THREE consecutive primes 2011 = 661+673+677 . Can you write 2011 as the sum of 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, … primes? 17 hours ago
Is this a good sign? Probably not.
From New Year’s Eve:
BGinKC Blue Girl
Just four timezones left to go and then the US is DONE with this miserable fucking decade. 31 Dec
Exactly.