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 Tuesday, November 18, 2008

 

   

 

Once we thought the earth
was flat - What of that?

It was just as globos then
Under believing men

As our later folks have found it,
By success in running round it;

What we think may guide our acts,
But it does not alter facts.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(1860-1935)


 

 
 
Provisional Truth  |  Archives  |  2005 - 2008

 

  Essays

May 2008:  Thanks Charley Reese for Some Good Advice - Link
May 2008:  Eye of the Storm - Link
May 2008:  Food For Thought - Link
April 2008:  Inflation's Early Warning System Validated - Link
March 2008: Plan B-Ball -
Link to OK Gazette Essay Published February 27,2008

August 2007:  All Fired Up! -
Link to OK Gazette Essay Published August 15, 2007
July 2007:  Penn Square Bank's Unexpected Legacy -
Link to Oklahoma Gazette Essay
                                                                                                          Published July 25, 2007

June 2007:  Inflation's Early Warning System - Link

June 2007:  Rein in the Rainy Day Fund - Link to Oklahoma Gazette Essay
                                                                                 Published June 13, 2007

May
2007: Economic Tsunami Warning - Link 
May
2007: Thin Paper Line (Revised) - Link
April 2007: This I Believe: Truth is Provisional, Love is Absolute - Link
April 2007: Judgment Day - Apophis the Destroyer - Link
April 2007: The Ethics of Ethanol -
Link to Oklahoma Gazette Essay Published April 18, 2007
 

December 2006: Mass Transit: Get On Board - Link
November 2006: Nuclear Power Necessity - Link
November 2006: Disposable Consumerism - Link
November 2006: Faith-Based Money - Link 
September 2006: Ask (Oprah) and Ye Shall Receive
- Link 
July 2006: Election Day Sobriety
- Link
July 2006: Fever of Gaia - Link
June 2006: Addicted To Oil - Link

February 2006: Thin Paper Line - Link
December 2005: Saving Social Security 2006 - Link 
November 2005:
Color Me Purple - Link
October 2005: Summer Reading 2005 - Link


  Comment

May 10, 2008:  The Next Inflationary Epoch - Link
February 26, 2008:  The Next Crisis - Link
February 3, 2008:  Chicken Soup for the U.S. Economy - Link

August 5, 2007:  What a Difference a Fortnight Makes - Link      
June 1, 2007: 
Credit Market "Bubble" May Be At Bursting Point - Link  
February 5, 2007:  The Agenda Restated - Link
January 18, 2007:  Social Insecurity 2007 -
Link

December 20, 2006:  The Age of Mammals - Link  
November 24, 2006:  Between Iraq and a Hard Place
- Link
November 8, 2006:  The Real Winners of Election 2006
- Link
November 6, 2006:  The Privilege of Voting
- Link
October 27, 2006:  Garrison Keillor's Essay Embracing the Subtle Upside of Terror - Link
October 17, 2006:  Earl Doherty's Essay: Götterdämmerung
- Link
October 11, 2006:  James H. Kunstler's Essay: Twilight of Lumpenleisure - Link
 


  Book Reviews

April 2007: Dark Ages America (Morris Berman) - Link 
November 2006: The Road (Cormac McCarthy) - Link
September 2006: Why The Christian Right Is Wrong
(Dr. Robin Meyers) - Link
August 2006: The Long Emergency (James Howard Kunstler) - Link 
July 2006: Running on Empty (Pete Peterson)
- Link
June 2006: The End of Faith (Sam Harris) - Link

 


  Special Bulletins

March 31, 2007: Former Fed Foreman Fears Future Fiscal Facade - Link
October 3, 2006: Four Feds Forecast Foremost Future Fears - Link


  We Can't Make This Up, So It Has To Be True

October 18, 2008:  Social Mood Indicator - Link
June 7, 2008:  Making It Through the Day...Priceless - Link
January 25, 2008:  So... Exactly Whose Economy Gets Stimulated? - Link
January 8, 2008:  Plan Would Let Seniors Work To Pay Taxes - Link

August 12, 2007:  U.S. Lifespan Keeps Slipping - Link
July 12, 2007:  Fake Firm Gets Nuclear License in Government Sting - Link
June 1, 2007:  Ethanol Boom May Fuel Shortage of Tequila - Link 
May 19, 2007: Lenin and the Investment Bankers - Link
April 14, 2007: Border Fence Contractor Fined for Hiring Illegal Aliens - Link
April 2, 2007: New Clarity from an Old Obfuscator (Almost) - Link
November 30, 2006:
Sun warms earth, causes global warming - Link
November 14, 2006: Why "going to Baghdad" was a bad idea in 1991 - Link
November 2, 2006: U.S. preeminent among nations treating people like caged animals - Link
 


  Other Items of Interest

July 15, 1979: Crisis of Confidence Speech, President Jimmy Carter - Link

 

 

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