http://legacyjournal.info/index.php/ Expression Engine 1.6.3, build 20080421 CMS with Simple Commerce, Forum, Wiki and Gallery: A Peripatetic Log Journal from Davis for semi-serious Adults en dpfisk@gmail.com 2008-09-26 06:09:54 PDT http://legacyjournal.info/index.php/weblog/legacyjournal1/ Current Developments: {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, webscribe2 2007-12-12 12:11:28 PDT http://legacyjournal.info/index.php/weblog/legacyjournalfriday_family_first/ If it is Friday, it is Family First. {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, webscribe2 2008-09-26 05:14:54 PDT http://legacyjournal.info/index.php/weblog/legacyjournalthursday_two_step_firealarm_or_frozen_by_fear/ Washington, D.C. and the White House have not witnessed so may leader limos at midday in midweek since the returning Olympians were in town for a Rose Garden photo op. {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, webscribe2 2008-09-25 12:57:49 PDT http://legacyjournal.info/index.php/weblog/legacyjournalmonday_the_first_day_of_fall/ Nature works in funny ways during the Fall Season in Rochester, NY.  The natives say is because of the close proximity of Lake Ontario and Canada.  Goreist claim it is due to Global Warming.  om Friedman claims it can all be explained by a world the is hot, flat, crowded, and does not read his breezy lists of recipes.  {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, webscribe2 2008-09-22 12:37:31 PDT http://legacyjournal.info/index.php/weblog/legacyjournalthe_sunday_sermon_economist_moral_hazard/ If it is Sunday is must be time to roll out the interviewees for national television network news programs.  New York, Wall Street, financial services now have Washington’s and the country’s attention.  Elective national politics has temporarily been bumped off the screen by economic events, Sunday NFL Football, and the Emmy Awards. Treasury Secretary, Hank Paulson is the guy in the hot seat.  He appears to accept the economic moral hazard of recent pragmatic institutional rescues by the federal government.  In addition, he seems to affirm that the financial risks and the current value of instruments like nonliquid mortgage backed derivatives are both currently unknowable to even best of financial professionals. {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, webscribe2 2008-09-21 09:10:56 PDT http://legacyjournal.info/index.php/weblog/legacyjournallaidback_saturday/ While some fixate on the Gorey details of Climate Change and the coming Collapse of world civilization, others are living the dream in paradise places like Hawaii. {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, webscribe2 2008-09-20 06:30:57 PDT http://legacyjournal.info/index.php/weblog/legacyjournalfriday_final/ The past week has been eventful: * The New York City bases financial services market has experienced a case of the chickens coming home to rest as a combination of problems like “borrowing short and lending long” based derivatives, lack of credit, and lack of trust have impacted both the locals and the globals. ** Osher Senior Life Long Learning at RIT has started its new academic year with a host of new class offering including Sherlock Holmes, Vermont History, the exploration of the West, local bird watching, female jazz singers, the art of story writing and story telling, computer basics and the Collapse of societies.  Current events continues to be popular. *** The start of the fall season in Rochester, New York. {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, webscribe2 2008-09-19 09:18:18 PDT http://legacyjournal.info/index.php/weblog/legacyjournalfriday_fish_wrap/ Aristotle. ...’"Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully” * Thomas Friedman is out with a breezy new book.  It is about his view of the Environment and what needs to change to save the World.  His paper, the nytimes, has brought in a sober reviewer, David Victor of Stanford University ** We like PBS, The Evening News, and Jim Lehrer and his fellow reporters ---but.  Last night’s segment on the meaning of 9/11 was a flop.  Poets are fine writing about the meaning of life, but not on the language that is appropriate for reflecting on meaning of the loss of loved ones and the response to continuing radical terrorist threats from parts of the Muslim world aimed at the life blood Republic. *** Meanwhile, SP, the VP candidate in training , is coming into the brass knuckles arena of national campaigning by degree. Consider the snide skewering of Cindy McCain by Ariel Levy in the current issue of the New Yorker. {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, webscribe2 2008-09-12 06:39:48 PDT http://legacyjournal.info/index.php/weblog/legacyjournalthursday_time_for_truth_telling_9_11_the_magazine_and_the_true/ * On the seventh anniversary of 9/11, it is time this morning to pause and soberly reflect on the significance of that tragic day.  The story is partially told by the rapid repair of the Pentagon and today’s dedication of the victim memorial at that site. ** Joel Klein has written a Time profile on Palin people from his east coast perch. The mythology of the longstanding American Story or small towns and small people who do big things because of their Western getup and go is the target of Klein’s revision for those of us to used to religiously subscribe to the magazine.  Kleinists have a new reality: it is cosmopolitan, urbananist, globally focused, secular, pro-Israel, and not a little over-the-top intellectual.  We do not see Klein doing any serious hunting, fishing or fact finding in Alaska any time soon. *** Meanwhile, Klein, like Obama, uses a mistimed and misappropriate metaphor in a Palin political context.  ”Rocket propelled grenade“ has now jarringly replaced” lipstick on a pig” as the explosive image of the moment.  So, today, Sara Palin joins other Alaskan who are sending their warriors off to Iraq to doing what have been going on for 7 years:  Continuing the push back military response against middle eastern extremists who wish the likes of Joel Klein, and many of the rest of us, more than a little ill will and bad action. {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, webscribe2 2008-09-11 08:14:23 PDT http://legacyjournal.info/index.php/weblog/legacyjournalwednesday_time_to_weed_out_the_word_wars/ “Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” --- George Orwell * If it is Wednesday, it is time to be clear as to your message by weeding out the weasel words and the demeaning metaphors.  ”Implied Racism” and “lipstick on pigs” come immediately to mind. Meanwhile, Per Diem Gate is percolating and whose kids attend the fight kind of schools is the stuff of watercooler chatter. ** Tuesday night at WXXI PBS Rochester,NY, featured a repeat of the Frontline production on “Bush’s War” and the second night of a pledge drive. The first team of phone bank volunteers included members from RIT OLLI.  WXXI President and CEO, Norm Silverstein was also aboard. There is a connection, in that the CEO of the Bernard Osher Foundation is Mary Bitterman, formerly of KQED, San Francisco. *** Sarah Palin is now under the lights and on the dissecting table. Apparently, while serving as mayor, she asked the city librarian about her general guidelines use to expend public funds including the purchase of new books.  The former librarian is not currently making comments except to confirm that no specific book titles or topics were discussed with her boss.  However, the community has a history of public comments about books by and for “ the gay community. {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, {category_name backspace="1"}, webscribe2 2008-09-10 06:02:25 PDT