Too Much Stuff

I am simply overwhelmed this morning and have decided to “whelm” you as well. Every leaf I turn over today has a new tree sprouting under it, and I am just going to pass along the juiciest new shoots that popped up most recently. Here goes. Some are fun and some are not. And you won’t have time to read them all , but neither did I. You think you are special or sumpthin’?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/magazine/05wwln-medium-t.html?emc=eta1. Now here is a story about a lady who took a big leap forward in technology, only to have it backfire. She went backwards but is still light years ahead of anything I have available.

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/workplace/135182. If you believe this hot air for even a minute, I’ll have Larry Summers send you part of his $5.2M he got from speeches to hedge funds and then I have a bridge to sell you. This is pure, unadulterated crap.

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/sex/135094. I used to travel in Iowa. I am dumbfounded. Can Nebraska be next?

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/135155. When the forces at work in the above story and these folks collide, it should be great fun. Of course, Sarah is working on becoming a Scientologist, which should screw up everything. My recent blog about “Jesus is not alright with me” let me vent some about this.

http://www.alternet.org/workplace/135161. Bill Moyers continues to be a light in the darkness. If this makes you mad, then you should read the transcript of his interview with William Greider (http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/03272009/transcript2.html) . If you read both of these at the same time you read the Geithner story (above),you will need extra valium.

http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/135162. Maybe this is the best for (almost) last. As usual, I am too smart, too late, and should have been reading his work sooner. Same biting edge as Fred on Everything, but far more eloquent. This of course means that I have another book to read. Rats.

Last but not least: I just finished reading The Tyranny of Dead Ideas, by Matt Miller. The reviews of this book vary greatly, but I think it is well worth the time. The thrust of the book is neatly summarized in a sentence on page 230: The sooner we clear out the cobwebs of our minds, the less jarring and disruptive the years ahead will be, and the less damage these old ways of thinking will inflict on the country. I have certainly spent far more time on less productive pursuits. Without saying so, explicitly, Miller cogently and concisely refutes the Republican notion that “tax cuts, tax cuts and tax cuts” will save the country and the economy. But there is much, much more.

Good luck with all this.