Messages to the blogsphere

jp bapa

The Celebrate banners on Center St are terrible. Have you seen the decorations in Brookline Village. They catch the light and counter the gloominess of our days tilted away from the sun. Ours are more of a command by JP BPA - Celebrate. I don't want to be told to celebrate, I don't want to be told to 'act globally, dine and shop locally' by BPA. Give me something fun to look at as I dine and shop. Enough with the dystopian commands.

to Miles: buying in or selling out

about to be in lala land

Hey Miles,

Doesn't seem to matter where you are, it's how you play the game. Or maybe what game you decide to play. One could make a case that America has been on a wayward course for a while, or even, America has always been on a wayward course. We been invading and conquering since day 1, took us till 1890's to get across America then we took our show on the road. Our so called democratic principles are merely a license to exploit, a cover for personal and corporate greed. We take our countries ideals seriously but no one else does. Maybe the American progressives are fooling themselves, perhaps we are just another cog in the wheels of the empire. My generation takes credit for stopping the Vietnam war with their protest, yet the reality was we got our butts kicked.

Maybe the Chinese with their non-political business first world agenda are more ingenuous, no better or worse. I'm tired of watching democratic ideals wrapped in bullshit rhetoric, co-opted by all the right wing fundamentalist fools who want to tell us all what to do.

It's the same everywhere, doesn't matter in some ways where you are. I just try to keep my sunny disposition.

Jon, can you comment on Taiwan as the world math power (as certified by the Third International Study of Math and Science) What are they doing right? Is it right?