It's been quite obvious these last few weeks that I have not managed to spend the time much time on this blog. There are so many things to write about and I am constantly thinking about new post ideas, but there are simply other priorities in my life right now to suck up my time, namely my job and a script I am writing. More generally, I have been reorganizing how I spend my time recently and the upshot is that I don't have the time to stay up-to-date with the news the way anyone who wants to write a half-way decent blog has to. That's certainly one consequence of the media-rich world we live in: too much to read, not enough time to write. Anyway, with this post I am simply making official what has already happened: the frequency of posting will continue being very light for several weeks, if not completely stopped.
However, it's important to say that this is not the end of My Evolution. I get a tremendous amount of enjoyment from it (I hope whoever is reading this gets some too, especially if you're still reading it after all these months that it's been up!) I hope to pick it up again when my job is over -- in four weeks -- and my script done -- hopefully by June 1st. This is just a break, a hiatus. This blog tracks my political evolution, and in the end, that will never stop.
-- Axuve
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Stewart On A Roll
Many people wondered if Stewart would become less funny without Bush to take shots at. What they (and I) forgot is that, even with Bush gone, the absurdity, stupidity, arrogance, and denial of the rest of us remains. It's like shooting fish in a barrel. Here's another devastating take-down of CNBC and one of its resident blowhards, Jim Kramer.
Brooks's Challenge
David Brooks column today seems to me like a real challenge, not only to Republicana, but to Democrats. I want to write a lengthier appraisal tonight, but for now I'll just say that it's likely that, with this column and his Moderate Manifesto, he is giving voice to a not-insignificant group of centrists, from both sides, who, while they know that certain extreme things need to be done in this crisis, are still skepitical of the response so far. While these centrists (I'm one of them) think the Republicans are incapable of looking at the world through anything but Reagan-colored glasses (thus offering no plan and no thoughtful challenge to the Democrats), they are a little worried that the Democratic response has not been focused enough on the here and now. Obama's budget, from what Brooks argues, possibly makes too many assumptions about economic conditions over the next year, and consequently, is swinging for the fences when the better play is to go for a double. I disagree with Brooks in that some problems, like health care, simply can't wait to be fixed and are part of the overall problem (as the Obama Administration itself argues). But I think he offers a useful counterpoint to Obama's desire to want to do everything at once. It's a an argument that would have real resonance in the country, I think, Will the Republicans make it? Of course not.
Friday, March 6, 2009
First You'll Learn Something. Then You'll Laugh. Then You'll Be Infuriated.
I will put up a few posts this weekend, but for now enjoy these two pieces of fine media on the financial crisis. The first is the latest episode of This American Life. They have already produced some of the most lucid reporting on the financial crisis that I've seen with the episodes: The Giant Pool of Money and Another Frightening Show About the Economy. Now they have another episode on the collapse of the banking system. I can't say how it is as it just came out this week and I haven't had a chance to hear it, but I'm sure it's great. It's called, simply, Bad Bank.
The second piece is from last night's episode of The Daily Show. Stewart tears into CNBC for some of its atrocious coverage of the sub-prime crisis.
The second piece is from last night's episode of The Daily Show. Stewart tears into CNBC for some of its atrocious coverage of the sub-prime crisis.
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