After years failing to get engaged with any fiction, it was finally a TV series — The Wire — that made me enthusiastic enough about character and narrative to pick up a novel and actually read it all the way through. Then the natural author to go to was Richard Price, who wrote a handful of Wire episodes, and [...]
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As pointed out in the last post, some members of the current generation of news brass aren’t managing to see the future of their business because their vision is obscured by the conventional newsroom lens. They only see the competition that’s closest to their own conventions, but the range of threats they need to recognize are much more diffuse. Here [...]
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Richard Florida asks, “How do we move beyond the bailout economy to one that is creative, productive, and prosperous?” Let’s start from the end of my recent post about Keynes, an afterthought at the time: … my feeling right now is that the best solution would be a kind of “green bubble” that uses government funds to challenge researchers and entrepreneurs, [...]
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When I was a kid I wanted to be an architect. It started with a love of building forts — tree forts, snow forts, couch & blanket forts, cardboard box forts – and developed as I started to think about more ambitious fort plans that I didn’t actually have enough time and resources to build. I found the creative [...]
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Deep breath… I started writing this becauese at work we got in trouble for talking about sensitive political and religious topics. One of my ‘comrades’ cleverly figured out that we could tilt the discussion onto a slightly more academic axis. He asked me what I knew about John Maynard Keynes. I know a little. I dealt with Keynes [...]
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(via Lefsetz) I wouldn’t even be surprised if this song exists in a dozen other lower profile places — it’s got the kind of tune that any decent melodist has probably whistled, at least, but maybe didn’t quite like any of the structures that fit around it, or maybe they didn’t think it was outstanding or original enough. And the [...]
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I tried writing a lot this weekend but none of it ended up being worth posting. I need to post something though, because it’s driving me nuts that my last post (therefore the first post anybody landing on my blog will see) is about last week’s debacle in Ottawa — a topic that I’d frankly [...]
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I wasn’t comfortable with it until I heard a constitutional expert explain on CBC Newsworld that prorogation is normally used when parliament has an especially large, complex set of legislation to consider, and it’s deemed best for MPs to return to their ridings, meet with their constituents, and look at matters from that perspective. Before [...]
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I’ve finally quieted my mind and collected my thoughts about the events in Ottawa this weekend — just enough to make sense of things by way of juxtaposing an older post on the meaning of integrity in politics. In that post I held up Barack Obama as a paradigm of integrity, arguing that: Having established a [...]
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Continued… but I don’t even want to think about the political aspect of this – this disgrace — which seems to be a race to the bottom… Below the fold are some more very rough remarks about economic stimulus, carrying on from my previous discussion about economics-as-being-about-more-than-money.
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