Sticks & stones will break my bones …
Friday, August 27th, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, media | No Comments »But names and words won't hurt me. The US has a strong security force that keeps violence in check and the two political parties from literally throwing stones at each other. However, negative names and words seem to be the ...
Duh & Hello!
Saturday, July 24th, 2010 Posted in Boomer News, Critical Thinking, media | No Comments »I'm nearly 80. This is to our grand kids who probably get my drift. The news media has again made race great copy to put before the American public ... and yes, the public eats it up. Archaeologist are pretty certain ...
Starry Starry Night
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, Politics, media | 10 Comments »An open letter to a conservative friend; You are passionate & worried about the direction our country has been heading ...so am I. As a moderate, I communicate with conservatives and liberals ...and I can see that liberals are also as passionate ...
Labeling the News Media
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 Posted in Boomers, media | No Comments »Peer pressure is usually associated with teenagers. However, peer pressure can affect anyone, including adults. Can peer pressure be used to change the public listening and viewing habits of the news programs? I just read an editorial comment suggesting that some radio and ...
The Sustainability Revolution
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 Posted in Boomer News, Limits of Growth, Politics, media | No Comments »Okay, family, grand kids and who ever is out there in blog land ...this is the start of a series of blogs on "The Sustainability Revolution". No one knows how to bring about such a revolution, and it is taking a long time ...
The Little Ice Age & Stubborn Neurons
Monday, May 4th, 2009 Posted in Politics, Priorities, media | No Comments »There are lots of history lessons in the History Channel's Little Ice Age documentary kids. The Little Ice Age occurred between 1300 & 1850, and made life very hard indeed in northern Europe. A 4 degree drop in temperature caused ...
Loyality … Global or country?
Monday, May 4th, 2009 Posted in Politics, Priorities, media | No Comments »David Brooks has a thought provoking article in NY Times 4/30/09. We face a series of transnational threats. How much control should we give to global institutions and how much to individual countries? Our first Look back from the moon at ...
Make products vs. Shuffling Papers?
Sunday, May 3rd, 2009 Posted in Politics, Priorities, media | No Comments »Obama commenting on the American automobile industry at a recent town hall meeting in effect said, "It's better to make products than shuffle papers like we have been doing". (The last time I heard someone say that was back in the ...
A Thought Experiment – part II
Saturday, April 11th, 2009 Posted in Politics, consciosness, media | 5 Comments »The gun control issue is an emotional issue on both sides. The gun control issue is not the thought experiment. In the previous blog, I tried to make the gun control example as neutral as possible. If both sides see ...
A Thought Experiment
Thursday, April 9th, 2009 Posted in Politics, Statistics, media | No Comments »If the NRA had complete control and responsibility over the gun licensing and the sale of fire arms to the American public, would things be any different? No comments please. Think about it. I't's a thought experiment.
Boomers aren’t babies anymore
Monday, April 6th, 2009 Posted in General, media, science | No Comments »About 25% of the US population was born between 1946 and 1964. They are now between the ages of 44 and 62. Barack Obama is 47. This generation has looked upon itself as being special. If the climate actually starts to adversely ...
Mother Nature will push the reset button
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 Posted in Limits of Growth, media | No Comments »For over 100 years Homo sapien has been on an unsustainable exponential curve in almost every area of endeavor. The plan so far has been, wait for the bubble to burst, or wait for a crisis to occur, before trying to fix ...
We’re drowning in verbal data [part I]
Friday, March 13th, 2009 Posted in Curmudgeon, Statistics, media | No Comments »Lawyers, (most of our politicians), and Journalist, (media people) are by-in-large verbal people. They don't seem to consider the possibility that several hundred words can be turned into a picture, chart or graph. Word information is growing exponentially. We're drowning ...
The Boomer News Year-end Blog
Tuesday, December 30th, 2008 Posted in General, media | 3 Comments »Naming this blog after a hand written newspaper I wrote for our 5th grade class in 1941 is somewhat ironic. Since the first Baby Boomer got the first social security check, there has been a flood of new Baby Boomer ...
The Boomer News asks: Can we change our ways?
Thursday, October 30th, 2008 Posted in consciosness, media | No Comments »Apparently all the information we gather through our senses is filtered by our conscious mind and assembled with respect to importance in the hippocampus. We all decide which memories are retrieved and reinforced. These memories are stored in various parts of ...
After 9/11 we were told to consume … now what?
Sunday, October 12th, 2008 Posted in Politics, family, media | No Comments »After 9/11/2001 Americans asked our leaders what we could to help. Our leaders told us that our job was to consume. Now that we are in a deep economic crisis, Americans again are asking what we can do to help. Hey kids, ...
The Boomer News started in 1941
Saturday, October 4th, 2008 Posted in family, media | No Comments »The name of our blog is the Boomer News. The newspaper, the Boomer News, was created in 1941 by your grandpa for his 5th grade class mates. The one-page newspaper was circulated amongst the thirty children in our 5th grade class. I ...
Why didn’t they show us the TED spread?
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 Posted in Statistics, media | No Comments »Almost all the financial reporters and pundants agree that the credit crunch message done poorly and was lost in the bail out of Wall Street message. The afternoon the House failed to pass the bill, I watched the plunge in the stock market as ...
We want to be entertained … not informed
Sunday, September 14th, 2008 Posted in Politics, Statistics, media | No Comments »How can you make the majority of Americans interested in subjects like; "U.S. endless growth is unsustainable", (columnist Neal Peirce), or the "U.S. is going broke" (columnist David Broder). Most people want to be entertained and don't read the editorial columns in the papers ...
Wait for the crisis to occur … before you try to fix it
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 Posted in Politics, Statistics, media | No Comments »Kids, before you get into this, blog go to http://blow.blogs.nytimes.com/ In the archive list click on Hans Rosling and view his video on statistical presentations. There are some amazing possibilities with this type of statistical presentation. It was my observation that in ...