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  • GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…

    While news from Myanmar flows much more freely than the country’s military dictators would like, there is a surfeit of photographs and video. That’s one reason I’m looking forward to the return of Bangkok-based photographer Andrei Pistolesi in two weeks when he returns from Myanmar. From Pistolesi’s blog: Time to head to [...]
    Posted: November 30, 2009, 9:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • RALPH’S SKETCH ‘N’ KVETCH…

    Posted: November 30, 2009, 12:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • MY COMMENTS…

    1639: Kyle Sisk whitewashing his “Willie Horton”-attack of Governor Strickland after reports of Kasich’s pal releasing an alleged police killer and child rapist. 1130: “Success” in Afghanistan means the end of Bin Laden – see Brunner’s Kos diary [...]
    Posted: November 30, 2009, 11:32am EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • FROM MY DAD…

    I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for [...]
    Posted: November 30, 2009, 6:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • ROLDO RIGHTS…

    Number of comments: 1
    Roldo Bartimole writes: Joe Cimperman started his campaign to be the first Cuyahoga County Executive today. If you don’t think so, you don’t know the ambitious Joe Cimperman. Cimperman at a meeting with MMPI’s Mark Falanga a week ago asked Falanga if he would commit to having four meeting on the Medical [...]
    Posted: November 30, 2009, 3:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…

    Many people, both citizens and those visiting the country, took extraordinary steps to help those oppressed by Myanmar’s military dictators during the 2007 Saffron Revolution and the 2008 Cyclone Nargis, often at their own peril. At least one such person has sought and received aid in New Zealand. From Radio New [...]
    Posted: November 29, 2009, 9:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • FROM MY DAD…

    I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for [...]
    Posted: November 29, 2009, 6:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…

    Clearly Myanmar’s Senior General Than Shwe has an attitude in line with that of Faux News head Rupert Murdoch, the complete misunderstanding of the English word fair. In the case of Faux News it is misuse in that network’s Fair And Balanced tag. For the senior general the abuse of [...]
    Posted: November 28, 2009, 9:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • FROM MY DAD…

    I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for [...]
    Posted: November 28, 2009, 6:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…

    One of the tactics to control dissent in Stalin’s Soviet Union was the institutionalization of political dissidents in mental hospitals. Clearly the State Peace and Development Council has taken notes on Uncle Joe’s methods as hidden camera video from one of Myanmar’s prisons mental hospitals shows. From the Australia Network News: Many [...]
    Posted: November 27, 2009, 9:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • FROM MY DAD…

    I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for [...]
    Posted: November 27, 2009, 6:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • AN IDEA ABOUT IDEAS…

    With all the intensity and brilliance for which he is known, Alan Kay envisions better techniques for teaching kids by using computers to illustrate experience in ways -– mathematically and scientifically -- that only computers can. [...]
    Posted: November 26, 2009, 6:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • HAPPY THANKSGIVING, TAKE 2…

    Posted: November 26, 2009, 10:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • FROM MY DAD…

    I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for [...]
    Posted: November 26, 2009, 6:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • HAPPY THANKSGIVING, TAKE 1…

    Posted: November 26, 2009, 3:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • A FUTURE FOR SPACE EXPLORATION…

    In this passionate talk, legendary spacecraft designer Burt Rutan lambasts the US government-funded space program for stagnating and asks entrepreneurs to pick up where NASA has left off. [...]
    Posted: November 25, 2009, 6:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • MY COMMENTS…

    1151: Nothing like making the next 346 days even tougher than they have to be [...]
    Posted: November 25, 2009, 11:53am EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • WHAT THEY SAID…

    Ta-Nehisi Coates writes: This puts me in the mind of the early 90s when Negroes were running around parroting that Menace II Society line, I’m white America’s worst nightmare: Young, black and just don’t give a fuck. I was kid, but even then I used to think, No you’re not. You’re [...]
    Posted: November 25, 2009, 10:39am EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • I KNOW WOMEN WHO’D QUEUE TO FLIP D’SWITCH…

    From Haaretz… [...]
    Posted: November 25, 2009, 10:31am EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • WALMART WEDNESDAY…

    It’s been a busy week in Wally World: the Universe’s source of cheap plastic crap. On The Writing On The Wal — the blog USA Today says should be on its readers’ radar — Jonathan Rees and I continue our work dedicated to drawing back the curtain on the Bentonvile [...]
    Posted: November 25, 2009, 10:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • HUH…?

    Number of comments: 2
    From The Washington Post: The Census Bureau employee found dead in September killed himself and staged his death to look like a homicide, state and federal law enforcement officials said Tuesday. [...]
    Posted: November 25, 2009, 10:27am EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • FROM MY DAD…

    I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for [...]
    Posted: November 25, 2009, 6:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • FROM MY (NANORWIMO) CHAPBOOK…

    Found in my electronic chapbook. “Telling writers how to fake,” she said, “is like teaching children how to steal. You should be ashamed of yourself.” I should indeed be ashamed of myself, and I often am, but not this time. For fakery is the heart and soul of fiction. All our [...]
    Posted: November 25, 2009, 12:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…

    I have up close and personal experience with boat people. My own case involved Vietnamese fleeing their country in the late ’70s. The destination was The Philippines where the government had turned what was once a tourist island in Subic Bay into a huge refugee camp. What these boat people [...]
    Posted: November 24, 2009, 9:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • ROLDO RIGHTS…

    Number of comments: 1
    Roldo Bartimole writes: The most reasonable tax for Cleveland City Council to raise income would be a special admissions tax on all events at Progressive Field, Quicken Arena, and Browns Stadium. Why? The reason is mainly because none of the teams pay any property taxes on their sports facilities. Not a penny. They ride [...]
    Posted: November 24, 2009, 8:00pm EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • RECALLING SPUTNIK…

    About this talk Filmmaker David Hoffman shares footage from his feature-length documentary Sputnik Mania, which shows how the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik in 1957 led to both the space race and the arms race -- and jump-started science and math education around the world. [...]
    Posted: November 24, 2009, 6:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • ROLDO RIGHTS…

    Roldo Bartimole writes: Cuyahoga County expects the Medical Mart fund to be at about $80 million by the end of this year. That’s a few million dollars less than expected because sale tax revenue has been down. However, that doesn’t include investment earnings that add to the fund. The interest rate [...]
    Posted: November 24, 2009, 12:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • WHAT THEY SAY…

    From David Frum: If you like Palin – well go ahead. It’s a free country. But quit saying that “the people” love Sarah Palin. They don’t. Actually, they quite dislike her. The longer they know her, the more they dislike her. And even more than they dislike her, they do not respect [...]
    Posted: November 24, 2009, 11:13am EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • MY COMMENTS…

    1344: Photos For College Apps 1102: Palin Man – musta been under a tent when we were there 1045: Time to play the blame game again. And again. And again. [...]
    Posted: November 24, 2009, 11:02am EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • FROM MY DAD…

    I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for [...]
    Posted: November 24, 2009, 6:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • FROM MY (NANORWIMO) CHAPBOOK…

    Found in my electronic chapbook. There was once a school of thought in the theater that maintained that scenery should be as detailed as possible, even down to details which could never possibly be apparent to the audience. If there was a desk on stage, for example, there ought to be [...]
    Posted: November 24, 2009, 12:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…

    The military dictators of Myanmar — known under the Orwellian moniker of the State Peace and Development Council — believe that the best way to control their political opponents is to adhere to the adage: Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer, and how much closer can you keep [...]
    Posted: November 23, 2009, 9:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • SO HOW DO YOU USE AN ASTROLABE ANYWAY…?

    Rather than demo another new technology, Tom Wujec reaches back to one of our earliest but most ingenious devices -- the astrolabe. With thousands of uses, from telling time to mapping the night sky, this old tech reminds us that the ancient can be as brilliant as the brand-new. [...]
    Posted: November 23, 2009, 6:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • MY COMMENTS…

    1012: Consensus Among Economists Says Stimulus Working 1006: Walters should’ve followed up, Palin should have boned up re: Jews “flocking” idea [...]
    Posted: November 23, 2009, 10:12am EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • FROM MY DAD…

    I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for [...]
    Posted: November 23, 2009, 6:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • FROM MY (NANORWIMO) CHAPBOOK…

    Found in my electronic chapbook. Afterward, though, when you reread what you’ve done, you might want to see whether your modifiers , your descriptive words, do the job you’ve given them. should they be more or less specific? Should they me more descriptive? More judgmental? Are you trying to control the [...]
    Posted: November 23, 2009, 12:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…

    In the United States we are having a very long, very heated and very important political debate over ensuring that every citizen has access to health care. Imagine what it would be like to live in a country where the government spends a total of $61 per citizen per year [...]
    Posted: November 22, 2009, 9:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • MOBILES FIGHT POVERTY…

    Iqbal Quadir tells how his experiences as a kid in poor Bangladesh, and later as a banker in New York, led him to start a mobile phone operator connecting 80 million rural Bangladeshi -- and to become a champion of bottom-up development. [...]
    Posted: November 22, 2009, 6:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • RALPH’S SKETCH ‘N’ KVETCH…

    Posted: November 22, 2009, 2:22pm EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • ROLDO RIGHTS…

    Roldo Bartimole writes: Ohio’s Senator George Voinovich was the only U. S. Senator to not cast a vote yesterday on moving the historic health care bill. It didn’t make a difference since his would have been the 40th Republican vote against moving the bill to a floor vote. Democrats had 60 votes [...]
    Posted: November 22, 2009, 12:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • TIM, TIM, TIM, THEY WANT WEBSITES, NOT FACTS…

    Via Plunderbund… [...]
    Posted: November 22, 2009, 12:25pm EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • MY COMMENTS…

    0803: Consensus Among Economists Says Stimulus Working 0734: The twitching rage of the irrational Republican when you tell them they fucked up our country [...]
    Posted: November 22, 2009, 8:03am EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • FROM MY DAD…

    I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for [...]
    Posted: November 22, 2009, 6:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • FROM MY (NANORWIMO) CHAPBOOK…

    Found in my electronic chapbook. If you’re interested in watching a master put not only verbs but all the other parts of speech through their paces, you might make the acquaintance of Pelham Greenville Wodehouse. p. 205 From Telling Lies for Fun and Profit: A Manual for Fiction Writers by Lawrence Block. I [...]
    Posted: November 22, 2009, 12:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…

    Say what you will — I do as much as possible — about the State Peace and Development Council, aka Myanmar’s military dictators, but these guys have more chutzpah than the Menendez brothers begging for mercy because they’re orphans. And speaking of orphans, the generals do love the little tykes, [...]
    Posted: November 21, 2009, 9:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • CREATING NEW CREATURES…

    Artist Theo Jansen demonstrates the amazingly lifelike kinetic sculptures he builds from plastic tubes and lemonade bottles. His creatures are designed to move -- and even survive -- on their own. [...]
    Posted: November 21, 2009, 6:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • VOTE FOR JILL… AGAIN…

    Number of comments: 2
    It would be nice if I got more than a t-shirt out of all this shilling. [...]
    Posted: November 21, 2009, 10:11am EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • YOU FUCKERS GAVE ME BAD ADVICE…

    I’m with Ta-Nehisi on this. Ziggy and Sarah need to talk. Ziggy takes some bad advice.by bzzinglikeneon [...]
    Posted: November 21, 2009, 10:03am EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • MY COMMENTS…

    [1158 -- Update.] 0947: Consensus Among Economists Says Stimulus Working [...]
    Posted: November 21, 2009, 9:50am EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • FROM MY DAD…

    I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for [...]
    Posted: November 21, 2009, 6:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • FROM MY (NANORWIMO) CHAPBOOK…

    Found in my electronic chapbook. There is no more important component of fiction than dialogue. The words your characters speak to one another do more to convey their nuances to the reader than any words you can employ yourself to sketch them. Dialogue advances and defines plot, renders complicated developments fathomable, [...]
    Posted: November 21, 2009, 12:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…

    In a vote by the United Nations 192-nation Third Committee, which focuses on human rights issues, North Korea and Myanmar were condemed for widespread and human rights violations. Sort of. The vote on North Korea was 97 yea, 19 nea and 65 abstentions. On Myanmar the vote was 92 yea, [...]
    Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • ORGANIC DESIGN…

    Designer Ross Lovegrove expounds his philosophy of “fat-free” design and offers insight into several of his extraordinary products, including the Ty Nant water bottle and the Go chair. [...]
    Posted: November 20, 2009, 6:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • WHAT THEY SAY…

    Kelley Bell-Wenzlaff writes: After a long and difficult debate on health care, The Stupak/Pitts Amendment passed The House 240 to 194 with 64 Democrats breaking from the party platform to add an amendment to the bill further restricting legal abortion. The move was underhanded, disgusting and unforgivable to the women in [...]
    Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:38am EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • YOU CAN’T HAVE YOUR COUNTRY BACK…

    Via Plunderbund… [...]
    Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:34am EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • FROM MY DAD…

    I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for [...]
    Posted: November 20, 2009, 6:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • FROM MY (NANORWIMO) CHAPBOOK…

    Found in my electronic chapbook. We cannot control how the reader will receive our fictional message, nor should we be able as writers to assert such control. The best we can do, I believe, is write carefully and as honestly as we can and let the reader make of our work [...]
    Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…

    Number of comments: 1
    While President Barack Hussein Obama’s visit to South East Asia and meeting with Myanmar’s Senior General Than Shwe did not result in any dramatic breaking of political logjams, it does appear that it may have given rise to the possibility of an unprecedented meeting between Shwe and oppossition leader Aung [...]
    Posted: November 19, 2009, 9:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • FIGHTING INJUSTICE WITH VIDEO…

    Musician and activist Peter Gabriel shares his very personal motivation for standing up for human rights with the watchdog group WITNESS -- and tells stories of citizen journalists in action. [...]
    Posted: November 19, 2009, 6:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • ROLDO RIGHTS…

    Roldo Bartimole writes: Cuyahoga County has paid MMPI another $1,240,799 in addition to the monthly fees of $333,333.33, according to figures from the County Auditor’s department. The monthly fees have cost County taxpayers some $2.3 million to MMPI. As I noted earlier, MMPI collects this each month as a fee and give [...]
    Posted: November 19, 2009, 12:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • MY COMMENTS…

    [1017 Update] 1005: What can we do to impact AFFECT implementation of county reform via Issue 6 0956: Fox News Proven Fair and Balanced? Um…No [...]
    Posted: November 19, 2009, 9:57am EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • YEAH, IT’S KINDA LIKE THAT…

    Posted: November 19, 2009, 9:37am EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • FROM MY DAD…

    Number of comments: 1
    I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for [...]
    Posted: November 19, 2009, 6:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • FROM MY (NANORWIMO) CHAPBOOK…

    Found in my electronic chapbook. The best surprise endings don’t merely surprise the reader. In addition they force him to reevaluate everything that has preceded them, so that he views the actions and the characters in a different light. p. 188 From Telling Lies for Fun and Profit: A Manual for [...]
    Posted: November 19, 2009, 12:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…

    Number of comments: 1
    In our attention to presidents, prime ministers and emperors, it is too easy to miss the actions of those with no titles. The common citizen does not get to claim the title of Nobel Laureate. Those in the trenches seldom get a meeting with those who wield power. They takes [...]
    Posted: November 18, 2009, 9:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • ROLDO RIGHTS…

    Roldo Bartimole writes: I find the way MMPI bills Cuyahoga County for its monthly “fee” an example of bad management taken to extreme. The billings tell the County nothing of what MMPI does for its healthy fee. Here’s what the entire “invoice” from MMPI says as a description of what it did [...]
    Posted: November 18, 2009, 8:00pm EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • LEADERSHIP’S MISSING MANUAL…

    Leadership doesn't have a user's manual, but Fields Wicker-Miurin says stories of remarkable, local leaders are the next best thing. At a TED salon in London, she shares three.' [...]
    Posted: November 18, 2009, 6:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • RALPH’S SKETCH ‘N’ KVETCH…

    Posted: November 18, 2009, 3:28pm EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • ROLDO RIGHTS…

    Roldo Bartimole writes: I talked with MMPI’s Mark Falanga after a three-hour Council briefing to ask a simple question. Did MMPI expect to build a private medical mart on public land at no cost? MMPI’s Falanga told Council that among a number of possibilities examined, MMPI wanted to build its Medical Mart [...]
    Posted: November 18, 2009, 12:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • WALMART WEDNESDAY…

    It’s been a busy week in Wally World: the Universe’s source of cheap plastic crap. On The Writing On The Wal — the blog USA Today says should be on its readers’ radar — Jonathan Rees and I continue our work dedicated to drawing back the curtain on the Bentonvile [...]
    Posted: November 18, 2009, 10:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • FROM MY DAD…

    I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for [...]
    Posted: November 18, 2009, 6:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • FROM MY (NANORWIMO) CHAPBOOK…

    Found in my electronic chapbook. On the other hand, there’s a special treat for the reader when the writer does try for verisimilitude. When I can read a book and believe (in the sense of that voluntary suspension of disbelief essential for success of fiction) that I’m reading real letters or [...]
    Posted: November 18, 2009, 12:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • THE SURPRISING TV SPREAD OF IDOLS…

    Cynthia Schneider looks at two international "American Idol"-style shows -- one in Afghanistan, and one in the United Arab Emirates -- and shows the surprising effect that these reality-TV competitions are creating in their societies. [...]
    Posted: November 17, 2009, 6:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • JIMI IZRAEL’S INTRO TO BLOGGING, TAKE 2…

    Jimi Izrael is back for more at Cuyahoga Community College. If you’re local, thinking that you can write better than us lame bloggers, check it out. [...]
    Posted: November 17, 2009, 3:17pm EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • RALPH’S SKETCH ‘N’ KVETCH…

    Posted: November 17, 2009, 2:24pm EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • ROLDO RIGHTS…

    Roldo Bartimole writes: I guess I’m just stupid. I don’t get it. Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson wants to tax garbage to raise $13 million a year. Then he wants to tax non-profits to raise $5 million a year. But residents already pay taxes to have their garbage picked up. Non-profits don’t [...]
    Posted: November 17, 2009, 12:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • MY COMMENTS…

    1000: Port Authority, Wasserman & the WLST Way-Back Machine 0948: Quotes reflecting on rogues, celebrity and presidential substance 0928: Pam Geller Hates Muslims, Fears Cookies: The Movie [...]
    Posted: November 17, 2009, 9:28am EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • FROM MY DAD…

    Number of comments: 1
    I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for [...]
    Posted: November 17, 2009, 6:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • FROM MY DAD…

    I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for [...]
    Posted: November 17, 2009, 6:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • RALPH’S SKETCH ‘N’ KVETCH…

    Posted: November 16, 2009, 11:08am EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • FROM MY DAD…

    I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for [...]
    Posted: November 15, 2009, 6:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • THE SCIENCE BEHIND A CLIMATE HEADLINE…

    In 4 minutes, atmospheric chemist Rachel Pike provides a glimpse of the massive scientific effort behind the bold headlines on climate change, with her team -- one of thousands who contributed -- taking a risky flight over the rainforest in pursuit of data on a key molecule. [...]
    Posted: November 14, 2009, 6:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • FROM MY DAD…

    Number of comments: 1
    I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for [...]
    Posted: November 14, 2009, 6:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • ROLDO RIGHTS…

    Number of comments: 2
    Roldo Bartimole writes: See what I mean? Mayor Frank Jackson wants to charge $9.25 a month, or $111 a year. for garbage pickup. Hitting the little guy because he’s afraid of tapping those who paid his campaign bills. This is GARBAGE, Mayor Jackson! The same will go a weak-kneed City Council if [...]
    Posted: November 14, 2009, 3:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • MEET DIGITAL EMILY…

    At TEDxUSC, computer graphics trailblazer Paul Debevec explains the scene-stealing technology behind Digital Emily, a digitally constructed human face so realistic it stands up to multiple takes. [...]
    Posted: November 13, 2009, 6:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • WHAT THEY SAY…

    Emily Badger writes: Sociologists at the University of North Carolina and Northwestern University examined an earlier case of deep commitment to the inaccurate: the belief, among many conservatives who voted for George W. Bush in 2004, that Saddam Hussein was at least partly responsible for the attacks on 9/11. Of 49 people [...]
    Posted: November 13, 2009, 9:08am EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • OF COURSE HE DID…

    Posted: November 13, 2009, 7:10am EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • MY COMMENTS…

    0659: On anniversary of Kristallnacht, this is how some Americans feel about Jews 0648: Port Authority, Wasserman & the WLST Way-Back Machine [...]
    Posted: November 13, 2009, 6:59am EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • WHAT THEY SAY…

    Ta-Nehisi Coates writes: We’ve got some time before this thing shakes out, and those numbers could change. But unless they want to basically be the party of the white South, this just seems stupid. Agreed. But they’re already there Ta-Nehisi. President Richard Nixon is smiling in hell. [...]
    Posted: November 13, 2009, 6:42am EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • FROM MY DAD…

    I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for [...]
    Posted: November 13, 2009, 6:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • FROM MY (NANORWIMO) CHAPBOOK…

    Found in my electronic chapbook. What gives, I suspect, is a confusion of plot and idea. An idea, as I see it, is the premise of a story. A plot is the structure by means of which that idea is transferred into a work of fiction. p. 159 From Telling Lies for [...]
    Posted: November 13, 2009, 12:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…

    The timing on this story from the Australia Network News seems odd to me. It could be the case that Aung San Suu Kyi’s lawyer is attempting to nudge the State Peace and Development Council, aka Myanmar’s military dictators, or that he is anticipating a favorable outcome to back channel [...]
    Posted: November 12, 2009, 9:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • ROLDO RIGHTS…

    Roldo Bartimole writes: I haven’t read the 300 page plus consulting report on management and efficiency of Cleveland government and I probably won’t. I’ll leave it to others. I know it won’t touch the one revenue source that Cleveland should tap if it had any concern for its citizens. It is [...]
    Posted: November 12, 2009, 8:00pm EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • SYMMETRY, REALITY’S RIDDLE…

    The world turns on symmetry -- from the spin of subatomic particles to the dizzying beauty of an arabesque. But there's more to it than meets the eye. Here, Oxford mathematician Marcus du Sautoy offers a glimpse of the invisible numbers that marry all symmetrical objects. [...]
    Posted: November 12, 2009, 6:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • ROLDO RIGHTS…

    Roldo Bartimole writes: Clevelanders over the years have taken over the Yankees, the Knicks, the Nets, the Rangers, Madison Square Garden. If sports, why not the book industry. Well, not quite that ambitious but Bill Gunlocke who gave Cleveland the alternative paper The Edition, has started a blog and wonders if [...]
    Posted: November 12, 2009, 12:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • HAVE COFFEE WILL WRITE TURNED FIVE…

    Number of comments: 1
    Other projects kept me from earlier recognizing my 9 November bloggiversary this week, but I’ve reposted my very first blog post for anyone who would like to see where I began. Over the past five years I have published just shy of 9,000 posts — 8,922 to be precise — and [...]
    Posted: November 12, 2009, 10:58am EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN TO ME…

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    …Why the feck we learn about this gross disception by a major news organization on a comedy show? Where are CNN, ABC, CBS and NBC on this story? The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Sean Hannity Uses Glenn Beck’s Protest Footage www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Crisis Can [...]
    Posted: November 12, 2009, 9:39am EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • FROM MY DAD…

    I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for [...]
    Posted: November 12, 2009, 6:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • FROM MY (NANORWIMO) CHAPBOOK…

    Found in my electronic chapbook. Maugham explained that as a young man he wrote with the stunning confidence of youth, adopting the omniscient third-person viewpoint. But when he grew older, he reported, he found it much more secure to write in his own voice and from a fixed point of view. [...]
    Posted: November 12, 2009, 12:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess
  • GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…

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    Reality is all in the qualifiers, in this case an adverb. When President Barak Hussein Obama sits down with the heads of the ten member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations this weekend, he will reiterate the U.S. call for the release of all political prisoners in Myanmar. [...]
    Posted: November 11, 2009, 9:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess

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