income distribution

Speaking of income disparity, I invite you to enhance my revenue stream of legal tender. Plus, you'll enjoy the narrative.

Power to the fans!

#OWS

In a weird, extended-metaphor sense, AlbatrossDreams presaged and foreshadowed the Occupy Wall Street movement. I'm not saying this as a megalomaniac, or maybe I am. But it is true in the sense that my very first post at this blog mocked income disparity, shallow abundance, and income disparity -- especially as embodied in real estate.

I admit, however, that saying something about that or writing about it is not the same as doing something about it. Or maybe it is. After all, isn't writing or saying a form of doing?

Just saying.

Or writing.

Or doing.

prescient

If you look at my first post here, I guess I was rather prescient about the coming collapse in 2008.

Sort of.

Indirectly.

I dare you to read this

I dare every Member of Congress to read this and challenge any zealot to refute its FACTS:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/15/opinion/stop-coddling-the-super-rich.html

Come on.

Refute this data, supplied by a billionaire.

I'm waiting.

compromise

It is worth noting that House Speaker Boehner did not use the word "compromise" once in his debt-ceiling speech last night.

the GOP Taliban

The Taliban wing of the GOP is hell-bent on ruination over the debt-ceiling impasse, wearing financial suicide vests, sure of their purity, confident of their paradise of possession.

Albatross of Possession

Just finished "House of Sand and Fog," by Andre Dubus III.

Though it came out more than 10 years ago, ahead of its time on the burdens of having and acquiring.

The American Dream turned tragically upside down and inside out.

Have yet to see the movie.