"Thanks Matt for providing that research. Yeah, if Republicans are "suppressing' the vote with the voter ID requirement, why has voting increased? I guess we're just really bad at voter suppression, when compared to the…"
Where the far left and far right overlap for fun and enlightenment
Latest Activity
Paul K. Ogden commented on Mark Small's blog post Meet---and beat---Indiana's law requiring Photo ID to vote head-on.Matt Stone commented on Mark Small's blog post Meet---and beat---Indiana's law requiring Photo ID to vote head-on."Looking over Indiana's voter #s since Voter ID took place, our #s have actually gone up in POTUS years and stayed relatively steady in the off-years.
I don't buy the notion that it is a burden to produce an ID of some sort. I certainly…"
Paul K. Ogden commented on Mark Small's blog post Meet---and beat---Indiana's law requiring Photo ID to vote head-on."Mark, I don't know when you've written more left wing looninesss than you've written here. The voter ID laws are not even remotely equivalent to the history of actual voter discrimination and suppression that your party,…"
Paul K. Ogden commented on Mark Small's blog post The Indy 500(r): growing up listening to it on the radio."They had radio back when you were growing up?"
Denise Hayden commented on Mark Small's blog post The Indy 500(r): growing up listening to it on the radio."I grew up a few blocks from the place. We listened on the radio, could hear the cars going around and see the balloons overhead. I will always love race day. I will always love listening to the radio on that day. Nothing like it!"
Blog Posts
Meet---and beat---Indiana's law requiring Photo ID to vote head-on.
Posted by Mark Small on May 28, 2012 at 5:52am 3 Comments 0 Likes
There is a concerted effort to block people, legally entitled to vote, from exercising that right. One manifestation of that effort has been Voter ID laws. Indiana took the first dubious steps in enacting such statutes. A challenge of the statutes to the United States Supreme Court was unsuccessful.
How, then, do we defeat the effort to disenfranchise so many voters? Mine is a proposal that would fight, at least to some degree, this effort.
The Problems:
1)…
Continue How do we create jobs for humans when jobs once performed by humans are now performed by machines
Posted by Mark Small on May 27, 2012 at 8:43am 0 Comments 0 Likes
The videos of robots on the Toyota assembly line are fascinating. Or switch over to the show "How Things Are Made" on cable or satellite. Huge mechanical arms pivot, drop, weld, swing, lift, pivot back, and wait for the next piece to come to it. One’s first thought, maybe, is: "That’s really cool!"
Those tasks used to be performed by human beings. The piece of metal destined to be a fender on a Pontiac, Plymouth or Mercury (I chose those brands for a reason, obviously) would…
Continue Today's Show: The Economy, and that's not all!
Posted by Mark Small on May 26, 2012 at 6:06am 0 Comments 0 Likes
TODAY’S SHOW: THE ECONOMY, BUT THAT’S NOT ALL!
This morning, May 26, our guests will be James Nease and, according to James in an e-mail from last night, Dan Forrestal. The topic will be the economy. Perhaps I should say The Economy.
We also shall premiere a new segment of The Show: "What’s Goin’ On?" Paul Ogden and I will discuss—in quick-time—five or six current topics. The first topic up will be the possible new round of largesse the City of Indianapolis seems ready…
Continue The Show for Saturday, May 26, at 11 a.m.: The Economy, from the Indy Cigar Bar.
Posted by Mark Small on May 25, 2012 at 6:08am 0 Comments 0 Likes
The economy either sucks or it does not or, if a person is sufficiently wealthy as to be insulated from its effects, the economy is a meaningless hum in the background as one enjoys life.
For the rest of us, the economy is a daily—what? Is it a fact of our existence? Is it a constant struggle? Is it a quasi-mechanical entity that operates consistent with rules of what seem like physics? Can we tell "how" the economy is doing by any means? If so, what are those means? Why does…
ContinueCivil, rational debate of everything and anything.
Videos
-
civildiscoursenow
Added by Mark Small 0 Comments 0 Likes
-
civildiscoursenow
Added by Mark Small 0 Comments 0 Likes
-
civildiscoursenow
Added by Mark Small 0 Comments 0 Likes
Events
© 2012 Created by Mark Small.
