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Why we’ll fail. When government loses focus.

I read an interesting editorial by Rance Crain in Ad Age wondering why people haven’t blamed marketing for the financial mess. He makes a claim when business gets sidetracked, things go bad, and the main focus in business is selling things to a specific market. Things went wrong for Cadillac when they tried an entry Read More

Undecided voter = idiots.

At this point, I’m tired of polls. I’m tired of discussions about; race, issues, merits, experience, redistribution of wealth, health care plans, the war, the economy, who is more like George Bush and if any of this matters. Our system is set-up to really screw-up: The popular vote doesn’t count- so if your state is Read More

Dennis Kucinich- also honest to a fault

If you didn’t catch Dennis Kucinich’s speech last night- you should take 5 minutes to watch it. He may not have Obama’s oration skills- but he nails what the last 8 years of GWB have done to our country. And for those of you who are complaining that we never have good candidates- how many Read More

Where the money for the DDC goes

Excellent post over on Daytonology looking at how the Dayton Development Coalition staff also happen to be huge republican donors. There ought to be a law against this… Daytonology: Dayton Development Coalition in the News Again The question isn’t so much the prioritization process or whether the DDC lobbys both Democrats and Republicans (“bipartisan…advocacy”), but Read More

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