Jive Talkin’

James Kunstler never misses the mark by far and this week, he nailed it. In The Jive Economy, he says things that you won’t hear repeated on any American news network. But they need to be said…
“The Republican resurgence now underway — or imagined to be, I’m not really sure — casts photogenic clods like [...]

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Fantasy Land

This astute point will go right over the heads of most movie goers, but what Kunstler points out below is being played out time and again in our mainstream media. We’ve become a feckless nation, no longer “number one” at anything except the amount of debt we’ve incurred, and we’re on a collision course with [...]

Posted on December 28, 2009 at 9:37 am by Jeff · Permalink · Comments Closed
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Hope Floats

Kunstler’s most recent blog posting, Wickedness Abides concludes with this astute observation:
In keeping with the wickedness theme, isn’t it interesting that our society now vests all its hopes and wishes for thriving — indeed survival! — on a yearly ceremony we have come to call Black Friday.  I was raised in a religion-free household, but [...]

Posted on November 30, 2009 at 10:24 am by Jeff · Permalink · Comments Closed
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