James Brody
February 16th, 2009, 11:28 AM
Peter Csermely discussed the physics of social break-up. Now we can watch Stage 4 happen...
JimB
2/16/09: President's Day?
There is an averaging, a Galton's regression to the mean, from having "President's Day." Presidents,however, differ in ways associated with humility and glory or anger and madness. Also, he "official" name is still "Washington's Birthday," "Presidents' Day" is vernacular.
Happy Birthday to Abe and, on 2/22/09, to George...
On Stimuli...
Taped interviews with Tom McClintock (R-CA) http://www.bennettmornings.com/pg/jsp/charts/streamingAudioMaster.jsp?dispid=302&headerDest=L3BnL2pzcC9tZWRpYS9mbGFzaHdlbGNvbWUuanN wP3BpZD0zNDkyMyZwbGF5bGlzdD10cnVlJmNoYXJ0dHlwZT1ja GFydCZjaGFydElEPTMwMiZwbGF5bGlzdFNpemU9Mg==
and Byron York http://www.bennettmornings.com/pg/jsp/charts/streamingAudioMaster.jsp?dispid=302&headerDest=L3BnL2pzcC9tZWRpYS9mbGFzaHdlbGNvbWUuanN wP3BpZD0zNDkyMSZwbGF5bGlzdD10cnVlJmNoYXJ0dHlwZT1ja GFydCZjaGFydElEPTMwMiZwbGF5bGlzdFNpemU9Mg==
"The Obamateur Hour
How long will it last?
By Mark Steyn
Few pieces of political "wisdom" are more tediously recycled than a well-retailed bon mot of British prime minister Harold Macmillan. Asked what he feared most in the months ahead, he gave an amused Edwardian response: "Events, dear boy, events." In other words, you can plan all you want but next month, next year, some guy off the radar screen will launch a war, or there'll be an earthquake, or something. Governments get thrown off course by "events."
It suggests a perverse kind of genius that the 44th president did not wait for a single "event" to throw him off course. Instead he threw himself off: "Is Obama tanking already?" (Congressional Quarterly); "Has Barack Obama's presidency already failed?" (the Financial Times).
"Someday soon this inaugural Obamateur Hour (as one of my correspondents, John Gross, calls it) will end and the "events" phase will begin. Back last spring, some gloomy reflections of mine on multiculturalism prompted a reader to advise me to lighten up: "We're rich enough that we can afford to be stupid." A mere nine months later, the first part of that equation no longer seems quite so obvious."
More somber, witty brilliance at http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=OTdjMzQ0MTg3MDZkMWM0YWE1MGNiOTZhZTVkN2JhZmY=
Torches & Pitchforks T-shirt
Glenn Beck's imagery is far older than this country: Polish serfs regularly threw over their owners.
"It's 'Torches and Pitchforks--Protecting Americans From Politicians Since 1791.' Sure, signing petitions is one thing, but nothing sends your message home quite like fire and a pointed farm implement." $19.95...
Https://members.premiereinteractive.com/ows-img/glennbeck/pages/28585/41410.htm
References:
Csermely, Peter (2006) Weak Links: Stabilizers of Complex Systems from Proteins to Social Networks. NY: Springer.
See also Brody, James (2008) Rebellion: Physics to Personal Will. Lincoln, NE: iUniverse.
JimB
2/16/09: President's Day?
There is an averaging, a Galton's regression to the mean, from having "President's Day." Presidents,however, differ in ways associated with humility and glory or anger and madness. Also, he "official" name is still "Washington's Birthday," "Presidents' Day" is vernacular.
Happy Birthday to Abe and, on 2/22/09, to George...
On Stimuli...
Taped interviews with Tom McClintock (R-CA) http://www.bennettmornings.com/pg/jsp/charts/streamingAudioMaster.jsp?dispid=302&headerDest=L3BnL2pzcC9tZWRpYS9mbGFzaHdlbGNvbWUuanN wP3BpZD0zNDkyMyZwbGF5bGlzdD10cnVlJmNoYXJ0dHlwZT1ja GFydCZjaGFydElEPTMwMiZwbGF5bGlzdFNpemU9Mg==
and Byron York http://www.bennettmornings.com/pg/jsp/charts/streamingAudioMaster.jsp?dispid=302&headerDest=L3BnL2pzcC9tZWRpYS9mbGFzaHdlbGNvbWUuanN wP3BpZD0zNDkyMSZwbGF5bGlzdD10cnVlJmNoYXJ0dHlwZT1ja GFydCZjaGFydElEPTMwMiZwbGF5bGlzdFNpemU9Mg==
"The Obamateur Hour
How long will it last?
By Mark Steyn
Few pieces of political "wisdom" are more tediously recycled than a well-retailed bon mot of British prime minister Harold Macmillan. Asked what he feared most in the months ahead, he gave an amused Edwardian response: "Events, dear boy, events." In other words, you can plan all you want but next month, next year, some guy off the radar screen will launch a war, or there'll be an earthquake, or something. Governments get thrown off course by "events."
It suggests a perverse kind of genius that the 44th president did not wait for a single "event" to throw him off course. Instead he threw himself off: "Is Obama tanking already?" (Congressional Quarterly); "Has Barack Obama's presidency already failed?" (the Financial Times).
"Someday soon this inaugural Obamateur Hour (as one of my correspondents, John Gross, calls it) will end and the "events" phase will begin. Back last spring, some gloomy reflections of mine on multiculturalism prompted a reader to advise me to lighten up: "We're rich enough that we can afford to be stupid." A mere nine months later, the first part of that equation no longer seems quite so obvious."
More somber, witty brilliance at http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=OTdjMzQ0MTg3MDZkMWM0YWE1MGNiOTZhZTVkN2JhZmY=
Torches & Pitchforks T-shirt
Glenn Beck's imagery is far older than this country: Polish serfs regularly threw over their owners.
"It's 'Torches and Pitchforks--Protecting Americans From Politicians Since 1791.' Sure, signing petitions is one thing, but nothing sends your message home quite like fire and a pointed farm implement." $19.95...
Https://members.premiereinteractive.com/ows-img/glennbeck/pages/28585/41410.htm
References:
Csermely, Peter (2006) Weak Links: Stabilizers of Complex Systems from Proteins to Social Networks. NY: Springer.
See also Brody, James (2008) Rebellion: Physics to Personal Will. Lincoln, NE: iUniverse.