…or do they have this backwards???
I’m just askin’…
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It’s A New Day
I just can’t seem to get enough of this song these days.
Tryin’ ta figger out how to make it my iPhone ringtone… Nevermind. Thanks to Luke the MoominMan, I now have this as my ringtone using iRinger which is specially designed for iPhones. On Macs, you can use Garage Band.
I’m just sayin’…
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Rush Limbaugh Has Lost It. For Real.
I was just telling a coworker yesterday how I thought that having Barack Obama win the election was absolutely the BEST thing to ever happen to Rush Limbaugh’s career. But, after reading THIS, I suspect that he’s finally gone completely off the deep end that he’s been perched upon for so long. To whit:
“But I just want to say, folks, look I support Obama. I just don’t support his policies. I support our president, like I have supported all presidents. I just don’t support Obama’s policies. I don’t support the nationalization of the banks, which has happened. I don’t support the nationalization of the auto companies.…
The Shepard Fairey “HOPE” Poster
The image on the left is the photograph that was used by street-artist-turned-gazillionaire-artist, Shepard Fairey, to create the iconic HOPE and PROGRESS posters seen by nearly everyone during the campaign. He sold over 500,000 posters during the campaign and basically saw his career being made by it.
What blows my mind is that the man who took the original photograph, Mannie Garcia, never gave his permission for him to use it and was never compensated for it in any way. More strangely, he never even realized it was his photo Fairey had used until the day AFTER the inauguration.…
Mr. & Mrs. E’s Inaugural Odyssey
Several weeks ago, Mrs. E, with the help of our good friend Lynne Schwartz, transacted a poster deal with the organizers of the Michigan Ball in Washington, D.C. for 3,000 posters to be handed out as gifts to all of the attendees. Once that happened, it was pretty much a cinch that we would go to the inauguration and, of course, the Ball itself. The problem was that the weekend before the inauguration, her family had a beach house rented in Saugatuck, Michigan on the shore of Lake Michigan for a birthday bash in honor of Mrs. E’s 40th. On top of that, a gallery in Washington, D.C.…
Democratic Hegemony Into the Future – OFA 2.0
During the election, I was a Volunteer Team Leader in the Ann Arbor, Michigan area. When I was recruited to do this, one of the things that intrigued me and got my attention most was the very deliberate focus on not only assembling a grassroots network to elect Barack Obama but to keep this network in place AFTER the election.
For many decades, the Republicans have had a palpable electoral advantage, due mostly to their ability to stay on message and, most importantly, to stay organized between elections.
Now the Democrats, under the direction of the Obama organization, are taking that to a new level and it will most certainly ensure that we retain control over our government for years and decades to come.…
US Healthcare Policy Squelches Entrepreneurship
Watching the phenomenal success of my wife’s Photo Mosaic Poster of Barack Obama has me thinking a LOT these days about the nature of entrepreneurship and how it truly is a significant engine of economic prosperity in this country. Small start-up companies, single-owner businesses and other fledgling enterprises, when they are successful, spread their success like ripples in a pond. While many don’t make it through their first year of existence, the ones that do flourish have the potential to provide a livelihood for large numbers of people as they grow and expand.
The healthcare policy of the United States almost ensures that a great percentage of potentially viable start-up businesses never see the light of day, preventing our economy from seeing the important fruits of their existence.…
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