Not My Mother’s Blog

So all right. I’m not an economist. I don’t have any letters after my name so I’m talking from a pure common sense perspective here. After reading about how our tax policies encourage corporations to invest in jobs overseas, I have a suggestion for economists to mull over and poke holes in. The Harvard Tax [...]

Sarah Palin & Spiritual Warfare
Let’s talk about unsavory association for a moment. Forget the Alaska secession and take a look at what the people she prays with believe. They believe that their prayer is responsible for death and destruction of those who are ‘against us’ – and who is that? How about Mother Theresa and [...]

The McCain-Palin Mob
Just watch it. Hat-tip to Clarus Visum for this one: If ignorant hate was currency, one rally could bail everyone out. Can I have that on a t-shirt? Please?
CV also asks a question that’s been bubbling in my mind for days – are they trying to rile up some kook to kill [...]

As of now, I am probably relegating myself permanently to the wingnut conspiracy-theory sideshow. I’m going there because for a few years, I flirted with the edges of the Warrior of God religious right – and I recognized it in her from the night she stepped up on the stage and said she’d be thrilled [...]

Can someone please explain to me how this makes sense in our world or any alternate world you can imagine?
It is my understanding the numbers on wall street today are due to the increase of unemployment figures,people that have been living off of their credit card lines can not get credit even with credit lines [...]

From the New York Times this morning: The vice presidential debate will have a different format than the presidential debate. While the presidential debates will allow McCain and Obama to engage in back and forth dialog, Palin and Biden will answer questions given them but not address each other. The reason?
McCain advisers said they had [...]

that’s what this rag calls itself. What it really looks like is a shill site that panders to the gullibility and credulity of people in debt to rake up fat affiliate profits from barely legal advertisers. Case in point – the banner ad on every page is for Cleansepatch, which claims to “effectively and immediately [...]

Lately, I’ve found a new addiction – www.mylot.com. I don’t recommend it to anyone for much of anything – it’s the domain of people who think they can get rich clicking on ads on various affiliate ad websites (don’t EVEN get me started on THOSE). This particular one pays people a few fractions of a [...]

As a web content writer, one of the things that I try to keep up with is the search terms people use when looking for something on the internet. It’s pretty important when you’re publishing web content because when you know the words that people enter into that little search box, you can try to [...]

Not a lot to say about this other than that the idea totally tickles me:

Even though Facebook, MySpace
and other social-networking sites that inspired A-Space are
predominately the domain of young people, there apparently is no such
generational divide on A-Space.
“We have found that
participation in A Space crosses every conceivable age line [...]

The current issue of Vogue India is causing quite a stir. Approaching their one year anniversary, the publication made waves this month by doing a sixteen page spread of Fendi, Alexander McQueen, Burberry, and Birkin accessories all modeled by rural Indian villager who will not ever make in their lives the cost of some of [...]