Another side to the health care debate. One that probably should be obvious but for some reason isn’t.
Scot McKnight, in response to Glenn Beck & Jerry Falwell, JR..
A brilliant Sri Lankan pastor on responsibility.
A new free alternative to Basecamp opened yesterday: Freedcamp — Project Management made free and easy.
Back in politics, I found this report from the NY Times interesting: Basically, the tea party crowds are intentionally ignoring divisive social issues (think homosexuality/abortion/etc) in favor of collecting numbers.
And even more interesting, this note on banks and economics. Basically, a Citibank Investment Advisory Letter from ‘06 referred to our economy as a “plutonomy”. In it they detail that “the rich take an increasing share of income and wealth over the last 20 years, to the extent that the rich now dominate income, wealth, and spending in these countries.” “In total, the top 20% accounted for 68% of total income; the bottom 40%, for just 9%.” And even better:
The writers of this letter point out that in other places, such as Japan and much of Western Europe, the rich were confined to pretty much the much the same share they had in the 80’s, but in the plutonomies, such as the US, the “capitalists benefit disproportionately from globalization and the productivity boom, at the expense of labor.” In other words, the imbalance is not necessary, but a creation of particular forces within the plutonomies.
Switching gears again, here is a hope filled article about potential angelic visitors. This is far and away one of my favorite blogs written by someone I don’t know. Almost everything he writes is great (I’ve linked to quite a few of his posts).