Friday, October 31, 2008

Get Ready to Rumble: No Electioneering Beyond This Point

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Polling machines await at MS 51 in Park Slope. What will the future hold? Fouad Ajami in the Wall Street Journal, like much of the mainstrea...
Friday, October 24, 2008

America: 2008

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Not sure of the source of these eloquent and poignant photos of an American candidate and a quintessentially American family. No matter how ...
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Thursday, October 23, 2008

Theater in DUMBO: Floating Brothel at Galapagos

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The Galapagos Art Space, an intriguing space at 16 Main Street at Water Street in DUMBO, has a great program of upcoming events. http://www....
Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Sen. Chuck Schumer: Sees Huge Margin for Obama

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Politico.com reports that Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) predicted Tuesday that Barack Obama will win more than 300 Electoral College votes w...
Monday, October 20, 2008

Watch Out What You Wish For: Senator Biden on "Augean Stables" and What Comes Next in This Brave New World

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And, if the economy alone isn't bad enough, Senator Joe Biden is giving the dark low down on the likely crises faced by the next Preside...

After the Fall: American Economics - Post-Boom, Post-Bust

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I came across this article (from 1999) this weekend, by Dean Baker, written during the hey day of the first major dot.com bubble around the ...
Thursday, October 16, 2008

Post-Debate Unease: Turdblossom on Barry O vs. All Forms of Whiggery

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Senator McCain threw everything including the kitchen sink at Senator Obama last night and some of it may even have stuck but it didn't ...
Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Pre-Debate Chatter: Senator Obama's Campaign Issues Debate "Talking Points"

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According to the Drudgreport.com, Senator Barack Obama's Presidential campaign has issued talking points to the media in adance of the d...
Sunday, October 12, 2008

AUTUMN SUNDOWN: Red Hook

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Down by the Red Hook Waterfront,we made one of our brief run throughs of the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Show, Free Fall which has two more ...
Friday, October 10, 2008

"THE END OF AMERICAN CAPITALISM ?" : Closing of World Markets? - A Brand New Day

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Has advanced capitalism in fact swung so far in a free-market direction that it now must be restrained, into a more central/nationally contr...
Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Spiritual Technology: Getting Unstuck on Yom Kippur

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Well, the pleasant reflections of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, that usher in the Days of Awe are over and it is time to get down to b...
Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Bounty in Brooklyn Heights: King Harvest Shall Surely Come

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An amazing day in Brooklyn Heights. The graceful rays of the autumn sun, the air temperature just perfect, brought out the lunchtime crowds ...
Monday, October 6, 2008

Into the Abyss: Global Economy = Terra Incognito

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This is edgy stuff. The Financial crisis moved into the Wall Street crisis and now, It is morphing into a global economic crisis. What does ...
Saturday, October 4, 2008

Brooklyn Party Cake, Telltale Signs, and Tales of Absolute Zero

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Brooklyn Beat turned 54 yesterday . Yep, 54 years ago in Samaritan Hospital on President Street between 6th and seventh avenues, which is n...
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Friday, October 3, 2008

American Syzygy

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photo by Brooklyn Beat/TN 2008 syz·y·gy a pair of related things that are either similar or opposite If the Democratic Party could muster t...