Daily Archives: September 18, 2007

Stagnation in Japan

Joichi Ito has an informative Op Ed piece in today’s New York Times. In it he quietly affirms a need for Japan to eschew as necessary the short term profits in supplying China, to move away from the heavy industrial export economic base, the raw materials commodities like cement and steel that fueled the post [...]

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Dots and Dashes

An ellipsis is a sin of omission and the lowest form of punctuation. Today’s stylistic dictum comes to us from Helga Koch. The phrase “lowest form of punctuation” itself bespeaks the Kunstfertigkeit of a powerful writer. Two weeks have passed since Ms. Koch passed this content our way. One hopes, that is – I hope [...]

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Trubee or not Trubee

Flecks Of Spittle Where The Beaten Dog Lies (Each Day Is A Neglected Cur) Copright c 2001 John Trubee Each day is a neglected cur Staked to a short chain in a junkyard Chasing himself in tight circles Of sorrow & madness. Behind each impassive commuter’s mask Is a crying child in the darkness Dying [...]

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You may not get all the answers you want

It’s better that way. Corwood 

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