To Stimulate or Not To Stimulate: Baby-Sitting the Economy with Rich Gardner

It was my honor and privilege last week to have a very informative exchange with Rich Gardner, occasional writer for PhillyIMC.org.  The Philadelphia Independent Media Center is a progressive, independent media outlet whose mission is to give voice to those who have traditionally been excluded from mainstream media outlets.  I regard their work and their mission very highly, even if I occasionally disagree with them on some of the finer points.

What is “Libertarian Socialism”?

I don’t know, but I’m interested in finding out.  One YouTube video that is supremely unhelpful to that end is this one, taken from a Q&A session of a Noam Chomsky lecture apparently titled “Education & Democracy”.  I haven’t heard the whole lecture, and I don’t like to take this answer out of context, but I’ll respond to it as jianenohashi presented it:

Thomas Paine demands corroboration from Matthew. Publisher sentenced to hard labor.

The book ascribed to Matthew says, chap. xxvii, v. 45, “Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.” Ver. 51, 52, 53, “And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city and appeared unto many.” Such is the account which this dashing writer of the book of Matthew gives, but in which he is not supported by the writers of the other books.

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It is an easy thing to tell a lie, but it is difficult to support the lie after it is told.