It's too bad the media sucks so much, sometimes. Things aren't going well in the economy, and Congress is trying to accomplish a magic solution with breakneck speed (mostly so its members can get back to the selfish art of campaigning), and what are the headlines of today's papers, a day after a stock market collapse? WHAT NOW? NOW WHAT? (The Sentinel and Chronicle, respectively.) It's as if the print media is throwing up its hands and saying, "We don't know. Figure it out yourselves."
Here's one clear-headed explanation complete with advice from, of all places, the hippie rag Arthur Magazine. In it, Douglas Rushkoff advocates a return to localism, and portends a credit card meltdown in the same vein as the mortgage crisis (will we be talking about a bailout of Mastercard in six months?) -- he may or may not be right, but at least he's writing something that isn't full of panic and reliant upon the quotes of campaigning representatives who are just as lost about this stuff as the rest of us.
Has anyone else stumbled across a good article that explains the crisis, the way out of it, and what it means? Drop a link here.
"If Barack Obama doesn't become president, I'm going to blame the Jews," says comedian Sarah Silverman in her video supporting the website The Great Schlep.
She is far from politically correct (and for once political at all?), but The Great Schlep is bgger than Silverman and her antics. The organization is urging Jewish youngsters to visit their grandparents in Florida and convince them to vote for Obama -- the idea being that, with enough votes from the old folks, the swing state will swing left. The Great Schlep is scheduled for Oct. 11-13, but they are also encouraging those who can't make the trip to phone up their buppies and Obama-ize them that way.
It's been a hot day, and everyone has been yelling up at City Hall about various things. Times like these, I think we could all benefit from a little video of otters holding hands.
No problem. Here's how to easily get at wine without any tools, which will come in handy when the industrial apocalypse arrives. According to wikihow.com, you can also turn the bottle upside down and kick it with your shoe.
If you thought Garfield Minus Garfield was disturbing, wait until you get a load of Lasagna Cat, in which old Garfield comic strips are re-enacted and then thrown into a blender with '80s music video references and late night cable commercial cheese.
Does Obama Do Yoga? If the past 4 years of yoga in Santa Cruz with Mark Stephens has any indication of the next 4 years of an Obama Administration, our country has a major crisis we better begin to prepare for. I took a...
Does Obama Do Yoga? Does Obama do yoga?
I think that this is a good question. If he doesn't, he sure had me fooled. If he does, how "cool" would that be! And not just for all of us yoga junkies, here in santa cruz, who...
Student Activists Flyer at Chamber of Commerce Dinner Thank you Elizabeth for exposing this on going struggle up on the hill. It is sad that the University of California received an award for organization of the year while it has continuously failed to ...
Neighbors concerned about Neary Lagoon Didn't I see something about psychically affecting the water in that Santa Cruz hit movie, "What the @#$%^ Do We Know Anyway?"
Answer: not very bleeping much!
It's swampy water, it's natural. Don't b...
