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A Country Without Lobbying? 2008-01-14 13:01:00 Here’s an idea for you: Let us ban all corporate lobbying at local, state, and federal levels. This could begin as a petition circulated at the state level, as a referendum issue. As ubiquitous as the lobbyists are in D.C., I have read reports indicating that they have begun taking their sleeze into the statehouses as well. What’s the point? You may ask. After all, we cannot have a national referendum on the issue, so why bother? Any state that passed such a measure would be under attack from corporate America’s legal teams in a hot minute once such a thing came to be, right? Probably so, but what if there were a Constitutional Amendment banning the practice? I hear the laughter, and I appreciate your sense of humor Read more:Country
Heeeeeere’s Johnny! 2008-01-11 09:40:00 Here’s a thought: What would happen if a talk show aired in which people actually had a conversation? The writer’s strike – or rather, the studio’s refusal to do the right thing – has dragged on for quite some time now. For the record, I do support the writers; to cut them out of the entertainment media of the future is nothing short of criminal. The studio heads should be ashamed of themselves. An un-intended result of the strike though, has been to demonstrate to the public just how dependant television has become on them. Shows like The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and those hosted by Letterman and Leno, did not air for the first few months of the action. Only just now have many of these gone back into production. But, Read more:Johnny
Sequels Never Made 2008-01-10 14:44:00 Here’s an idea for you: We’ll keep this one short and sweet. Those of you my age or older (thirties), will recall the glorious age of the action movie. There were straight out action flicks (anything with Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Gibson, etc.), but there were also sub-genres. One of these sub-genres was what I will call the “man/family put through hell and back in under two hours.” Such films took the typical American man (or family), and turned their lives upside down. Someone always died, and the protagonists usually took the life of the aggressors. I would like to be more specific here, but many of these were movies that I would not bother to watch again, and have not seen for fifteen years or more. Although I can think of a couple o
The Lights are on but Nobody’s Home 2008-01-09 13:57:00 Here’s an idea for you. This one should appeal to environmentalists and businesses alike: why not turn off the lights at the Big Box when it is closed? More specifically, why not hook the lights to motion sensors? If the thought of making the change to each individual pole seems too daunting, then we could attach one master sensor per row. Can you imagine the electric bill for these places? With dozens and dozens of high powered lights blazing all night long, every, single night of the year, the numbers must be staggering. And how many tons of fossil fuels are burned to manufacture the juice to make the night sky so hard to see? We are not just talking about the Big Box chains here either; what about car lots? Around here at least, we have some Read more:Lights
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The Planet Speaks! (thoughts for a movie) 2008-01-08 14:57:00 Here’s an idea that some moguls in Hollywood might want to consider while the strike is ongoing. In a time not too far removed from our own, the president has trouble sleeping. These are not the normal night worries keeping the commander in chief awake; this is something different entirely. Each night, as he (or she) is sleeping, he is awakened by a strange noise. He rises and asks his aides what the sound was, but they never report having heard a thing. To him, the sound is like that of two large stones being rubbed together; something earthy and utterly beyond his ability to comprehend. After a few nights, he no longer asks his aides anymore – for now, he is afraid that they might think him mad. He just keeps it to himself and comes to drea Read more:thoughts
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An Upside to Smoking and Drinking? 2008-01-07 12:25:00 Here’s a thought: why not establish a tax on every alcoholic and tobacco product sold in the U.S. ? Yes, it is true. I just recommended a new tax. Here come the firing squads to take me down, but before they get here, hear me out. The revenues from this tax – call it a health tax if you like – would be applied exclusively to offset some of the millions of dollars every year spent on treatment for the maladies associated with these products. I am not saying that there is anything wrong with smoking or drinking as a personal choice, but nobody lives in a vacuum. Smokers and drinkers, through the exercise of those choices, are adding untold millions to the cost of healthcare in this country. It is a free country, but, as they say, the freedom to swing your Read more:Smoking
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Stop Dividing so that We May Conquer 2008-01-05 15:08:00 I read an excellent post on Dissident Voice yesterday that got me thinking – not for the first time – about how easy it is for “we the people” to become “us against them.” If there is anything that the defenders of the status quo in the U.S. have in common, it is their desire for polarization of the masses. Before I continue, let me clarify; I refuse to put a face on the aforementioned defenders – leave that to those who need a boogeyman. For my part, the face of my enemy is my own, yours, and everyone else’s. That said, the defenders with the most power (whoever they are), know how to push our buttons. They have divided us up into nice little airtight packages. The common man is uncommon these days. We are, by and large, out for ourselves an
Getting Recycling Out of the Trash 2008-01-04 14:49:00 Here’s one for you. We here in the U.S. consume more resources than any other nation on the planet. The use of all those resources makes for hundreds of tons of trash a year. Landfills are being stretched to capacity, and yet, the percentage of material that is being recycled is tiny compared to that which is buried in the ground. I recycle as much as I can – and as much as my community will accept – but families like ours are in the minority. Many more folks never even give it a thought to throw cans, bottles, boxes, and the like out with the trash. In a throw-away society like ours who can blame them? It would be easy for those of us who know the value of recycling to dismiss this majority of Americans as mindless idiots. But to do so is Read more:Recycling
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Bobble-Head Dwight Takes On Corporate 2008-01-03 15:11:00 Here's one for you. On the popular television show The Office , the character Dwight
Shrute was given a bobble-head version of himself by his girlfriend, Angela. Why not do a video game based on the show, with all of the characters portrayed as bobble-heads?Here's one way that it could go: Dwight has been given the word by Michael that Jim is now to be given the official title of Assistant Regional Manager. Dismayed, Dwight must find Jim to learn whether or not the prank-meister even wants the coveted title.To find him, he must battle through pinatas shaped like Ryan's head, deadly vampire bats, and last but not least, Roy.Upon finding Jim, Dwight learns that, as he suspected, Jim cares little for the title, and would happily relinquish it to Dwight - as long as he keeps his seniority. Read more:Bobble
The Notion of Ideas 2008-01-03 12:32:00 Idea – 1. thought or suggestion as to a possible course of action > mental impression > a belief. 2. the aim or purpose of an action. Ideas are the seeds that have given rise to the world of men. There was no written language before an idea for it; nor automobiles; nor even governments, religions, packing peanuts, or any other of the millions of items and entertainments that we use every single day. Ideas are dangerous. Martin Luther King had a dream, but he had several good ideas about how to realize that dream. Adolf Hitler had some pretty serious ideas too; as did Mother Theresa, Mohandas Gandhi, and a host of other human beings that we deem heroes or monsters. Ideas are necessary. When one looks honestly at the situa
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