R World (Ron Davison muses aloud)
26 November 2010
The High Cost of Being Glen Beck
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Glen Beck is LDS. As a Mormon, he's expected to tithe 10% to his church. As tea party enthusiast, he believes that federal taxes equal t...
25 November 2010
Stop Smoking & Gain Weight
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Here are four curious facts. In 1960, 42% of Americans smoked and 13% were obese. In 2009, 20% of Americans smoked and 35% were obese. I ...
Pope - "Make Love Not War" (well, sort of)
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Vatican: Condom use less evil than spreading HIV Wow. And it only took the Vatican decades to figure out which of these was worse.
22 November 2010
Ask Not What Your Media Can Do For You (Parallels Between JFK and Obama)
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Today at the 6th Floor Museum, I couldn't help but think about some parallels between John Kennedy and Barack Obama. Kennedy was a cand...
17 November 2010
Tweet October
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Follow at http://twitter.com/#!/iamrondavison (And yes, some of these tweets were elaborated on beyond the 140 characters when I brought t...
The Tea Party - A Time Machine to the late 1800s
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Put simply, the tea party stands for a reversal of the gains of the last century. If wanting to slow or stop social change makes one a conse...
10 November 2010
The Big Question About Obama
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The big question about Obama is simply this: is he as good a president as Bush was bad? Bush left the country two difficult to extract fro...
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04 November 2010
About the Only Thing We Know for Sure
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This matter of job creation is not trivial. I believe that we've hit an inflection point, a point of transition from one economy to the ...
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02 November 2010
Policy (not political) Reasons The Republicans Will Win So Big Today
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One of the reasons that Obama's democrats will lose so many seats in today's election is unavoidable. Obama's recovery from the ...
25 October 2010
September Twits
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Tweets from September (and yes, I took advantage of the lack of 140 character limit to embellish a few). 1st the tea party protests taxes...
23 October 2010
Prop 19 - A Kind 'of Mellower Politics
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Today down in Mission Beach, Sandi and I walked past Pro-Proposition 19 Activists. Earlier we had seen a bumper sticker: Yes we Cannabis. Pr...
19 October 2010
From Elephant to Mad Hatter - What the Republican Party Has Become
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It is the invasion of Iraq all over again. Once again, the media is reporting on Republican policy as if it makes perfect sense when even t...
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18 October 2010
When Freedom of Religion Means Freedom from Religion
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This week, Angela Merkel proclaimed that Germany is a Christian nation and that the Muslim faith doesn’t really have a place in it. Ferdinan...
08 October 2010
(Intermittent) Music Friday - Jimmy Cliff Classic
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07 October 2010
At Last! A Nobel Prize Winner I Can Recommend
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When I was 18, I read a novel about an 18 year old who fell in love with his aunt while working at a radio station with a wonderfully eccent...
06 October 2010
Whatever Happened to Jobs?
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Two months in a row, jobs have disappeared. There is no more important economic issue we face right now and the parties need to define why t...
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01 October 2010
The Rate of Inflation of (perceived) Tax Rates
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I had an epiphany the other day. People KNOW that taxes are too high but they don't know how high they are. I think it would be fascin...
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22 September 2010
Unsolicited Advice in a Miserable Job Market
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There's a whole group of delightful recent graduates who are trying to start careers in this, the most miserable job market since they i...
20 September 2010
Just Wondering
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I wonder if any clergy anywhere observed "talk like a pirate" day yesterday during services. if tea party candidates given full po...
12 September 2010
Just the Way Things Are
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Once a myth is seen to be a myth, it no longer is. That is, if you call a myth a myth it no longer functions as a myth, as a way to make sen...
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