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FYI I've got a piece up today on Obama's new budget on The Daily Beast.
posted by Matt at 10:02 AM
2/26/09
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Matt Miller is the author of The Tyranny of Dead Ideas: Letting Go Of The Old Ways Of Thinking To Unleash A New Prosperity, published by Times Books in January 2009. He is a contributing editor at Fortune and host of public radio's popular week in review program, "Left, Right & Center." Matt is also a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, and served as an aide in the Clinton White House. His first book, The Two Percent Solution, was a Los Angeles Time bestseller. He lives with his family in Los Angeles.
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3 Comments:
Great piece on the budget. Here's hoping that "feed the beauty" does work.
Your link does go to the second page of the article though.
I agree. One reason I hate to see the tax problems with Obama's appointees (and liberals in general) is that these are exactly the people who should understand that 'feeding the beauty' is important. They need to lead by example.
It was a pleasure to meet you at your reading in the Palisades earlier tonight! The Village Bookshop is a great place to support, and I thoroughly enjoyed your wit and insight. I think Kate gave you a copy of my Limousine, Midnight Blue, which I hope you enjoy. More urgently, the books I recommended were:
1. Dmitry Orlov, Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects;
2. Sharon Astyk, Depletion and Abundance: Life on the New Homefront;
3. James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century.
If you've had a good bowl of Wheaties and are feeling dauntless, I also recommend:
4. Richard Heinberg, The Party's Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies;
5. Joseph Tainter, The Collapse of Complex Societies;
6. William Catton, Jr., Overshoot.
Matt Savinar's website,
Life After the Oilcrash: Breaking News is a daily-updated sampling of the most collapse-related stories from around the world with an emphasis on the USA.
There are many books, sites, documentaries, meetups, and "transition towns" that are entirely solutions oriented. This is by no means a mere "mindset" of "doom and gloom," but a necessary confrontation with the limits of complexity, technology, the biosphere, and the geological endowment of cheap and abundant energy on this finite planet.
My own blog -- where I'd be honored if you would click "follow this blog" -- is
POETRY, POLITICS, COLLAPSE.
Thanks for your time.
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