Archive - Nov 17, 2008

Tory Gattis, a Social Systems Architect from Houston, has some great recommendations for infrastructure projects that the City of Houston should undertake in the near future. I normally entertain these same ideas and I was pleasantly surprised to find some of my ideas in the mix.

One savvy strategy that FDR implemented during the Great Depression was to spend money on building infrastructures in the American communities because those investments would pay off for years to come.

When over 25% of the population of the Unite States was unemployed, instead of having them sit around waiting for big business to rebound, FDR put people to work and built the schools, libraries, roads and public venues many cities still use to this day.  Read More »

The New York Times had an intresting observation on the voters that John McCain was able to capture in the South. More importantly, this looks like trouble for Republicans who seem to be a party of a few and ... how should I say this, not the sharpest tools in the shed.

Adam Nossiter reports, "The Republicans, meanwhile, have “become a Southernized party,” said Mr. Schaller, who teaches at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. “They have completely marginalized themselves to a mostly regional party,” he said, pointing out that nearly half of the current Republican House delegation is now Southern."  Read More »

With the election of the first African-American president in the history of the United States, some have entertained the idea that the Age of Racism is over. A nation that was founded on the labor of slavery- an issue that split this country apart 100 years after rebelling against Britain- then imposed countless years of segregation and intimidation through lynching would magically rid itself of the Racist Plague?

Not at all. To my naïve, idealistic, romantic or just plain stupid friends … as long as there are different color pigments in our skin and there is ignorance, there will be racism.

Don’t get me wrong, the nomination and then the victory of Barack Obama as the first non-white President of the United States of America is critical to ridding this nation of this Racist Plague.  Read More »