The Anti-Manichaeist

My theological mentor from my undergrad days, Greg Boyd, has been given prominence in an article in the NYTIMES.  This article is getting some attention in the blogosphere bigwigs like Andrew Sullivan.  It describes the effects of his “Cross and the Sword” sermon series and his book, “The Myth of a Christian Nation: How the […]

The House of Reps has passed a min wage hike from $5.15 to $7.25, that was conveniently coupled with an estate tax-cut of 310 billion.  I got an email from Sojourners encouraging me to call my congressman about the bill. 

I decided to buy a used copy of Noam Chomsky’s book, “Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance“.  I liked what A Reader wrote at Amazon.com.
I have read a fair amount of modern history, and was only vaguely aware (like most Americans) of the many of Chomsky’s facts and assertions. Some were so startling […]

Lang, who has now started his own blog titled “Saving Social Security, Medicare and Capitalism”, posted again some wise comments about how to save Social Security along with some interesting history of how the insurance industry have subverted the implementation and spread of ideas/practices that would overturn their bread ‘n butter. 

Steve Andresen and I have had some good apologetic exchanges at this blog.  He wrote a very thoughtful reply to a post of mine a while back and I thought I’d repost it here and reply.

I’ve been blogging here(this is cross-posted from at TPMCafe) a bit about my idea to have the US Gov’t start up a public mutual fund, US Mutual. This idea is not completely new with me. Here is an article that describes how a similar idea was considered during the Clinton Admin. The bottom line is that
The […]

I’ve had a small change in my idea on how we could both save Social Security and reduce the volatility of the NYSE with a public mutual fund, US Mutual. 

I got some email from Philippines that have clarified the situation there.  I had written Gary Satre, a USAmerican reporter who lives in the Philippines, with some questions.

Frank Dean recently commented on how radically different the behavior of US Mutual would be from current investment behavior.  Usually, the volume of short interests, or those who sell short a stock, is only 1% of the volume of buy interests.  He fears that my ”strategy will be impossible for a large player to implement without causing substantial price […]

Kudos to Solly from across the pond for the link to…  
A Message from John Cleese to the citizens of the United States of America:
In light of your failure to elect a competent President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately. Her […]