Minority Ontario government creates opportunity to bring in much-needed four-point housing plan

http://www.wellesleyinstitute.com/blog/minority-ontario-government-creates-opportunity-to-bring-in-much-needed-four-point-housing-plan/

Remind me to read this sometime..

Boston Review article advocating the Guaranteed Annual Income

http://www.skepticnorth.com/2011/08/natural-health-regulations-the-yawning-crevice-between-consumer-and-protection/

http://www.skepticnorth.com/2011/08/natural-health-regulations-the-yawning-crevice-between-consumer-and-protection/

George Monbiot on the academic publisher's knowledge monopoly

Must Read!
http://www.monbiot.com/2011/08/29/the-lairds-of-learning/

What's it all about? ...and an article on social assistance.

Hello all.

I made a promise to myself to post here about once a week starting this month.  I want to get into the habit of writing short or longer blurbs about something fairly regularly

I spend a lot of time reading various political writings on the internet.  Generally I take in the various bits of information and perspectives, think about it for a bit and hopfully store it somewhere in my subconscious.  I also save interesting pieces to my favourites files where I usually never look at them again.

So I'm starting this blog with the humble goals of:
1) getting on my ass and writing more; in order to practice getting it done consistenly and consisely and also
2) save my thoughts and the thoughts of others from falling hopelessly down the memory hole.

There is a more long term goal of spreading truth and enlightenment, but the complexity of this goal has tended to stop me from actually writing.

That said this is not simply a journal to myself.  I want to be able to share my thoughts and the thoughts of others I find interesting.  PLEASE feel free to comment and especially to comment critically.  I think this is a pretty good medium for debate because it gives us the opportunity to think about what we want to say (write) and provides an actual record of what was argued.

Finally, in the spirit of just getting stuff down, here's an article on how, despite welfare rates still being down (adjusted for inflation) over 30% from the 1990's, talk of raising them is not politically popular.(Here)  Ideally I would want to comment on the stuff I pass on as well, but for now I'm just going to pass some of it on instead of forever agonizing over what exactly I want to say about it. The blog btw is quite recommended. 



http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2011/07/24/is-social-assistance-a-poverty-pariah/

http://rationallyspeaking.blogspot.com/2011/07/fallacy-of-difference-in-science-and.html

http://rationallyspeaking.blogspot.com/2011/07/fallacy-of-difference-in-science-and.html

frontline pbs documentary on brooksley born greenspan and financial crisis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm9VrKlXT_A&feature=related