Recently there was a news article explaining how "buying a home is now twice as affordable as renting".
Which sounds great until you dig into the data.
You see, home prices are increasing at 13 times the rate of wages.
Groupthink is a term coined by psychologist Irving Janis in 1972 to describe a process by which a group can make bad or irrational decisions. In a groupthink situation, each member of the group attempts to conform his or her opinions to what they believe to be the consensus of the group. In a general sense this seems to be a rational way to approach the situation.
This evening's music features jazz and blues trumpeter Hot Lips Page.
This evening's music features blues and r&b singer Bobby "Blue" Bland.
Our "free market" society is suffering from a lack of values.
If you look up "values" the dictionary is full of monetary definitions, who cares? Empirical valuation is arbitrary.
The values I am talking about are core beliefs that guide and motivate attitudes and actions.
This evening's music features the King of the Slide Guitar, Elmore James.
Leaders in Congress, particularly John Boehner and Nancy Pelosi are preparing another bipartisan fiasco in order to reward a particularly powerful constituency and stop them from their annual screamfest.
This evening's music features Texas blues guitarist and singer, Lightnin' Hopkins' cousin, Andrew "Smokey" Hogg.
A friend living in St. Petersburg FL sent me a link to this Politico article on Jeb Bush and the Schaivo affair.
This note is about the article and the fact that Jeb is worse than W Bush and there are too many who would champion his further destruction of the government and the environment.
I had not spent much time on Jeb but he will be out there during the presidential race
