SJ measure B looks like a narrow win coming up for the anti-union pensions.  Just another indication of public's opposition to union's ... added to the Wisconsin recall loss of the GOP gov that restricted unions there. 

What I really don't understand though is how voters (through its elected city government) can reneg on ...

Some things never change (emphasis below is my own). 

There is no exaggeration in the assertion that among the citizens who enjoy political rights the number of those who have a lively interest in public affairs is insignificant. In the majority of human beings the sense of an intimate relationship between the good of the ...

It really amazed me to find that the US population overwhelmingly believes god has had something to do with human evolution.  Only 15% believe god had nothing to do with it.... up only 6% points since 1982 when < 10% had that understanding.

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Krugman's piece today on China 

Financial Repression, Chinese Style (here, Oct 11 blog entry)

says essentially that the system will implode when the elder savings generation starts using those savings.  I think this is more than just a little wishful thinking on Krugman's part.  The essence of my belief that he's wrong in ...

Fundamentally, China's economic growth is no different than that which occurred in Britain, later on the continent and US.  The industrial revolution's economic success was solely due to the ability to supply industrial labor by the rapid shift from subsistance farming labor to industrial employment in factories and ...

Consider a family with young kids sitting around the dinner table.

Kid: All our friends at school go to church and sunday school.  Why don't we?

Father:  Because "we" don't believe there's any such thing as a god which is what church and sunday school teaches.

Kid: Then all my friends parents believe there's a god?

One of the big myths that has been created by right wing propaganda (propaganda = information supplied with an intent to deceive) is that when the currrent generation increases the national debt the burden of repaying it falls to on later generations .... they say it puts the burden of repaying that debt on ...

Something doesn't make a lot of sense.  U.S. maximum capacity utilization (total index, not just mfg'ing) has declined from 90% to 79% over the past 45 years (1967 - 2012).  That's a steady and consistant reduction in maximum capacity utilization of -0.26%/year.

So ...

http://grist.org/climate-change/2011-12-05-the-brutal-logic-of-climate-change/

The human specie, as with every other living specie on the globe, is programmed to survive by reaction to external stimuli. It may react to knowledge of future conditions if and only if 1) the conditions are ...