tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post8107606842087560553..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: Charting America's (And Our Own) Descent Into MadnessThe Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-43939720113242097052013-08-20T15:32:45.082-07:002013-08-20T15:32:45.082-07:00That's all there is for ever.That's all there is for ever.Anyonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15765384812104835792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-25120283929242119912013-08-20T15:30:57.957-07:002013-08-20T15:30:57.957-07:0012;28 pm...Of course it is! Where is your disposit...12;28 pm...Of course it is! Where is your disposition to find or make for that matter, causes for amusement. Find your funny bone. This is the first step—and probably one you've already got the answer to. There are various types of humor, from the witty humor of Mark Twain, to the physical humor of The Three Stooges, to the dark humor of George Carlin. 2. Know the difference between being funny and having a sense of humor. Both are important, and it's usually difficult to have one without the other—but it's not impossible. 3.Understand context. 4.Stay above the fray. To develop a sense of humor about things, try and stay objective. 5. Lighten up. Not everybody's humor will be the same as yours, and what might tickle them to death might make you yawn. 6.Watch and learn. If you've already got a sense of humor, you know what makes you laugh but what makes others laugh?<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Anyonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15765384812104835792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-86501815920377855542013-08-20T12:28:14.984-07:002013-08-20T12:28:14.984-07:00Sorry, Anyong, but this is getting wearisome. Fin...Sorry, Anyong, but this is getting wearisome. Find it in the Oxford English Dictionary (hint, you won't) or you're clinging to a mere colloquialism. I'm done with this.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-27641887802174524212013-08-20T11:36:45.338-07:002013-08-20T11:36:45.338-07:00CalPak 'Suitor' 17-inch Rolling Briefcase...CalPak 'Suitor' 17-inch Rolling Briefcase.<br />Metropolitan Black 28 inch Suitor Upright.<br /><br />In cards, the term suiter has been used to mean a suit.<br />What you have written is correct but I am not Wrong. Do the British spell a suiter a suitor? <br /><br />Anyonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15765384812104835792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-29655316663343839882013-08-19T19:26:33.315-07:002013-08-19T19:26:33.315-07:00Sorry, Anyong, but that's wrong. A suitor is ...Sorry, Anyong, but that's wrong. A suitor is a man who courts a woman, or a plaintiff or petitioner who brings court proceedings, or someone who seeks favour.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-80589933156042140872013-08-19T12:03:27.046-07:002013-08-19T12:03:27.046-07:00A suitOR is a "piece of luggage". But we...A suitOR is a "piece of luggage". But we can go the American spelling. Maybe the person meant the US Gov has it all sewed up enough as in a suiter hand containing cards, as in gambling away a society. MaybeAnyonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15765384812104835792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-86935671467491121002013-08-19T08:26:14.834-07:002013-08-19T08:26:14.834-07:00It has always vexed me, BCW, the energy we put int...It has always vexed me, BCW, the energy we put into the flaws of our opponents and the contrasting lack of effort we invest in what we can and must improve - the flaws and failures of our own leaders.<br /><br />I suspect it's the state of our "home team" parties that explains why these writers advocate a "ground up" populist response that works outside all of the established parties.<br /><br />The Liberal machine has signed on to the agenda of corporatism. They're not interested in battling inequality or the corporate media cartel or pretty much anything else that might actually serve the public. The NDP might be marginally better but not much.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-5633237565387375452013-08-19T05:59:07.309-07:002013-08-19T05:59:07.309-07:00Brilliant insight from Giroux and can't wait t...Brilliant insight from Giroux and can't wait to read some of his books. The scary part of all this is how dangerously close we're getting to the grim state of affairs south of the border. A good case in point is to observe how the senate scandal is unfolding in the media and how uncritical journalists have become of the real culprit, the man whose bones are filled with rancid marrow. My biggest pet peeve is that we've continued to allow this government to attach its brand to "growing the economy" lie. The elimination, not the creation of jobs, is at the core of what drives our FINman but nobody seems brave enough in the national stage to point that out.bcwaterboyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00506402752799423770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-19805014959491955592013-08-18T18:48:03.991-07:002013-08-18T18:48:03.991-07:00" It is the rancid marrow that fills his bone...<i>" It is the rancid marrow that fills his bones."</i><br /><br />A marvelous line.......kootcoothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11344208424209840730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-8260730905214907622013-08-18T16:50:41.488-07:002013-08-18T16:50:41.488-07:00Mound of Sound 4:16 - you are hilarious (It Really...Mound of Sound 4:16 - you are hilarious (It Really Weirds Idiots Negatively).<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-62766142182287597072013-08-18T16:16:31.274-07:002013-08-18T16:16:31.274-07:00I don't know what to say. Anon 3:11 - to me ...I don't know what to say. Anon 3:11 - to me a "suiter" is a piece of luggage. To Anon 3:35. It's unfortunate you haven't encountered any great minds. Hint - they're the people who write the great stories.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-4739298391637157632013-08-18T15:35:05.299-07:002013-08-18T15:35:05.299-07:00There are no great minds, only great stories. And...There are no great minds, only great stories. And the truth will be told in those stories.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-51987546459014722862013-08-18T15:11:14.651-07:002013-08-18T15:11:14.651-07:00This sure is a suiter.This sure is a suiter.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-43559795181589566222013-08-18T14:40:58.302-07:002013-08-18T14:40:58.302-07:00Hi Owen. Having been baptized in Hedges et al, I&...Hi Owen. Having been baptized in Hedges et al, I'm beginning to move on into areas such as Herman Daly and Steady State economics.<br /><br />Like you I have wondered what we're going to do, how we (or in reality our children) are going to throw out this predatory corporatist system, the oligarchy that has supplanted democracy.<br /><br />Fortunately there are great minds like Giroux, Paul Craig Roberts and Gar Alperovitz who have delved into our intolerable problem and have done much of the legwork. They reveal how we can, and eventually will have to, reinstate progressive democracy.<br /><br />Giroux, speaking of the American situation, warns that this sort of reform is not to be achieved within our existing political parties. It can only take hold from the ground up by incrementally replacing the existing structures and institutions that have served us so poorly since the advent of Reagan/Thatcher/Mulroney.<br /><br />There's a welcome positivism in their writing for they posit progressive democracy not as a possibility but as an inevitability.<br /><br />I'm just starting with Alperovitz' "What Then Must We Do?" a title he borrowed from Trotsky. For an academic he chose to write this in a very conversational tone and, so far, it makes for relaxed reading. By contrast, Giroux, for the incredible power of his writing is awfully intense.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-88531971719242008512013-08-18T13:45:38.879-07:002013-08-18T13:45:38.879-07:00The swindle of fulfillment." And we're he...The swindle of fulfillment." And we're headed in the same direction.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.com