Posts Tagged: mccain


10
Nov 08

Daily Links for November 9th


9
Nov 08

Daily Links for November 8th

  • Observations on film art and FILM ART : It was a dark and stormy campaign – So the campaigns may teach us something of interest about narratives: You can’t have a gripping narrative without some suspense. You can do without curiosity or surprise, but a story lacking suspense won’t keep us turning enough pages to be curious or surprised. (4) Maybe that’s why the McCain campaign never had a “compelling narrative.” It didn’t build up enough of a sense of how it would win or how, after the election, the future would be different.

7
Nov 08

Daily Links for November 6th

  • GOOD » GOOD Sheet: The First 100 Days» – “I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people,” Franklin D. Roosevelt told supporters in 1932 while accepting the presidential nomination. When he took office the following year, he spent his first 100 days enacting a dizzying number of reforms designed to stabilize an economically depressed nation. Since then, a president’s first 100 days have been an indicator of what he is able to accomplish. In January 2009, the clock starts again.

6
Nov 08

Daily Links for November 5th

  • Obama’s Seven Lessons for Radical Innovators – Umair Haque – Barack Obama is one of the most radical management innovators in the world today. Obama's team built something truly world-changing: a new kind of political organization for the 21st century. It differs from yesterday's political organizations as much as Google and Threadless differ from yesterday's corporations: all are a tiny handful of truly new, 21st century institutions in the world today.

    Obama presidential bid succeeded, in other words, as our research at the Lab has discussed for the past several years, through the power of new DNA: new rules for new kinds of institutions.

    So let's discuss the new DNA Obama brought to the table, by outlining seven rules for tomorrow's radical innovators.


31
Oct 08

Daily Links for October 30th


18
Oct 08

Daily Links for October 17th


15
Oct 08

Daily Links for October 14th


6
Oct 08

Daily Links for October 6th

  • Keating Economics | Watch the Video and Share It with Your Friends – The backward economic philosophy and culture of corruption that helped create the current crisis are looking more and more like the other major financial crisis of our time.

    During the savings and loan crisis of the late '80s and early '90s, McCain's political favors and aggressive support for deregulation put him at the center of the fall of Lincoln Savings and Loan, one of the largest in the country. More than 23,000 investors lost their savings. Overall, the savings and loan crisis required the federal government to bail out the savings of hundreds of thousands of families and ultimately cost American taxpayers $124 billion.

    Sound familiar?


27
Sep 08

Some recent political tag clouds…

All via Wordle.net:

Bush’s Bailout Speech

McCain from the Debate

Obama from the Debate Transcripts


16
Sep 08

“The Wave”

From FirstShowing:

The Wave is an compelling German film that premiered at Sundance earlier this year. It’s about a high school teacher who sets up an experiment to demonstrate to his students what life is like under a dictatorship, but it soon spins horribly out of control when he forms a social unit with a life of its own.

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Assuming this is the same version (it isn’t) – I saw a 1981 broadcast version of the Wave (as an ABC Afterschool Special, broadcast in primetime) in high school psychology class in 1989/1990 [available in two parts on YouTube].  Both the upcoming and prior video versions of The Wave were based on a book, which was in turn inspired by a 1969 real-life Paolo Alto, California high school ‘experiment’.

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