Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: June 24, 2011
Let’s say that you spend about $250 a month on groceries to feed yourself, or you and your family. Let’s also say that you make about $1600 a month, which would roughly be equivalent to making $10 an hour. That means that you pay over 17% of your wages a month to feed yourself. Unfortunately, [...]
Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: January 21, 2011
Several news outlets placed emphasis on the drug use of Jared Loughner. Talk show host Michael Savage also placed heavy emphasis on Jared Loughner’s use of pot. That was his opinion on the first night of his response to the Arizona tragedy. The next night he placed emphasis on his alleged use of the drug [...]
Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: December 12, 2010
This is my modest analogy. I was working on the draft of this when Obama came up with his hostage analogy. First, here is some background of my views on the torture debate from Paul Krugman’s blog: It’s interesting that the origin of the word “torture” has roots in the word “twisting”. When there hasn’t [...]
Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: November 5, 2010
The media often makes it seem like the tensions primarily exist between political parties, between government and wall street, or America and China, etc. There tends to be a denial of the very real tension between classes. However, “class” has never been a very good term used to describe the situation due to the fact [...]
Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: May 21, 2010
When Brit Hume of Fox News recently asked where the oil was it not only seemed ridiculous, but it also made me think about a trend that seems to be forming in the media. It is a trend where reporters and certain segments of the public see and hear what they want to see and [...]
Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: April 2, 2010
Just my opinion, but I don’t think the title of Michael Moore’s movie works. Sure it is intended to be sarcastic or whatever, but if the capitalist system is evil like he claims it is, then why call it a love story? It’s almost like a Freudian slip, since he has benefitted greatly from the [...]
Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: March 26, 2010
If the internet was like one big party where just about everything under the sun was happening, then China was treated like they were chaperoned by Google to censor things they did not want to see or hear. This could be very important news that Google refuses to censor for China anymore. Regardless of whether [...]
Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: March 8, 2010
You might want to keep this in mind the next time people like Glenn Beck on Fox News starts whining about government funding and/or bailouts: Fox News is owned by News Corp. At least four of their top institutional stock holders were bailed out. They include Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Bank of New York Mellon, [...]
Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: March 6, 2010
The slant of the story about the guy who opened fire at the pentagon seems to be focusing on his marijuana use, especially over at Fox News. They would rather attribute the use of marijuana as a cause for his behavior than the fact that he was bipolar, which is the newer term for manic [...]
Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: March 2, 2010
Warren Buffett is in the news a lot lately, but some of the stories will be conveniently ignored for a number of reasons. It isn’t much of a surprise that he likes Goldman Sachs . After all, he helped bail them out along with their transformation into a bank and counter party payout money from [...]
Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: February 24, 2010
According to the book I am reading-The Harvard Psychedelic Club by Don Lattin, the founder of alcoholics anonymous had several LSD sessions in the 1950′s, including one with with researchers working with Dr. Sidney Cohen at UCLA. So far I find this book so interesting that it’s difficult for me to read, because I don’t [...]
Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: February 20, 2010
I was in the public library this morning and one of the locals who likes to walk the streets talking to himself or anyone who will listen was in there. This time he was talking to someone else. Everyone in the library could hear it, but it wasn’t too loud and it seemed sincere. I [...]
Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: February 7, 2010
I purchased a Tracfone back in 2003. Originally I was going to use it for everything, but I lived in a fairly remote area. The coverage wasn’t good enough, so I had to get a land line. I ended up using the cell phone for traveling a handful of times, but then it sat for [...]
Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: February 7, 2010
How has that woman from Alaska managed to remain in the news for almost a year and a half when issues like the counterparties of the bailout have barely surfaced as news? At the risk of prolonging it, I blame many of the media establishments who are critical of her. They could have just ignored [...]
Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: June 26, 2009
Do you remember when you were a child and had various attitudes toward playing games? How has that changed as an adult? Sometimes the game lasted much longer than you wished. Sometimes someone let you win. Other times you couldn’t get enough of winning. Here are some examples of those attitudes as they would apply [...]
