tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9356414.post4003779991176244348..comments2024-03-09T03:15:55.350-05:00Comments on jazzoLOG: Government For Salejazzologhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16647170784964378640noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9356414.post-57666780314678613892007-02-06T05:47:00.000-05:002007-02-06T05:47:00.000-05:00Hey maybe it's a different kind of bomb, only the ...Hey maybe it's a different kind of bomb, only the Decider knows for sure! (Did you hear the guy imitating Bush on Garrison's Joke Show this weekend mistakenly pronounce "nuclear" correctly, and then miscorrect himself? Funniest part of the whole show!) Anyway, I don't see much response to the outsourcing article posted on Sunday. Maybe everybody in the Northern Hemisphere is too cold to read and think...or maybe the moves away from having a congress for citizens, and toward "signing statements" and freedom of the marketplace for consumers finally are kicking in.<br /><br />Paul Krugman responded though. If your memory hasn't frozen up you know he writes about economics and international trade twice a week for The New York Times. Wikipedia says, " Krugman (pronounced with a long U) was born and grew up on Long Island, and majored in economics (though his initial interest was in history) as an undergraduate at Yale University. He obtained a Ph.D. from MIT in 1977 and taught at Yale, MIT, UC Berkeley, the London School of Economics, and Stanford University before joining the faculty of Princeton University, where he has been since 2000." You have to buy the paper or pay a fee to read his columns online though. <br /><br />TruthOut is putting up some of them, including yesterday's about outsourcing in which he says America has been returned to the 19th century spoils system. Not to be missed!<br />http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020507E.shtml<br /><br />At his own site at Princeton, Paul Krugman acknowledges the existence of an archive of his material where most of the columns end up getting posted one way or another. http://www.pkarchive.org/ A neat aspect is a message board for each article, from which I learned about another article written last year on this subject. http://www.haloscan.com/comments/pkarchive/020507/ <br /><br />Its author is Frida Berrigan (berrigaf@newschool.edu), a Senior Research Associate at the World Policy Institute's Arms Trade Resource Center. Her primary research areas with the project include nuclear-weapons policy, war profiteering and corporate crimes, weapons sales to areas of conflict, and military-training programs. The scary title is Privatizing The Apocalypse, and reveals how the arms industry has taken over setting up the The Big One. It's at http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?mm=3&yr=2006 where she's written a few more essays during the last year. I think I'll put another log in the stove, settle in and get acquainted with her research.jazzologhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16647170784964378640noreply@blogger.com