Scratches to Sketches
Saturday, 8 November 2014
The Uses of Ridicule - NYTimes.com
"But Singer will get very angry if you make fun of him; in fact, he denounces reporting that points out how wrong he and others have been as the "Krugmanization" of the media, a term I'll adopt with pride. It's yet another illustration of one of the remarkable revelations of recent years, the incredibly sensitive feelings of the superrich, who are so hurt at any suggestion that great wealth does not also go with great wisdom and great virtue that they threaten to take the economy with them and go home."
Triumph of the Wrong - NYTimes.com Krugman comment.
One could take the position that the American middle class is now so weakened and dispirited that democratic approaches through voting have been rejected by too many as useless. The danger might be that of. "Poor loser" to go on a destructive rampage imitating the status quo of power. "Don't ever give the competition an inch could be disastrous for many Americans who know the competition is uneven and who might just decide a home grown American nihilistic style revolution is justified in desperation." In any event, victory may not ultimately be as sweet as it seems...
"The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet midterms to men of understanding. Or as I put it on the eve of another Republican Party sweep, politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth. Still, it's not often that a party that is so wrong about so much does as well as Republicans did on Tuesday."
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Sketches from scratches is a provocative blogspot that has grown out of the Wuh Lax experience. It is eclectic, which means that it might consider just about anything from the simple to the extremely difficult. A scratch can be something that is troubling me or a short line on paper. From a scratch comes a verbal sketch or image sketch of the issue or subject. Other sites have other stuff that should really be of interest to the broad reader. I try to develop themes, but variety often comes before depth.
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