I don't really know what to think about all this, but it really is instructive about just how lost today's MSM has become.  Total, mind blowing, cluelessness.  With a heavy dose of cowardice, arrogance, and stupidity thrown in.

If there is any evidence that symbolizes the indecency of our society it’s the story of a young Newark, Ohio student on the front page of the New York Times today.

In today's tough economy, who doesn't want a good deal?  Cleveland  features a variety of interesting taverns, but one of my favorites is The Tavern Company - this little gem lies tucked away near the Cedar-Lee intersection  (2260 Lee Rd) in the Heights. 

See the works of Jim Nilsen, Solomon Walker and Michael Vayhinger @ Art Digital Magazine

Over at Brewed Fresh Daily, a comment by John Polk triggered these thoughts:

Metrics and why we measure.– We are moving from an industrial world that relied on stable, deductive models to a world of networks that relies on continuously shifting inductive models. Our economy exists as a shifting pattern of networks embedded in other networks.

In a world of networks, metrics help us learn “what works”.

Did the Plain Dealer actually think that Cuyahoga County Commissioners would really insist MMPI pay property taxes?

This book revisits a very difficult time to have to remember in recent history, but the telling is especially important now. The author will speak at Cleveland Public Library, this Sunday at 2:00 p.m.

An expose on Republican State Senator and gubernatorial candidate Kevin Coughlin was killed by Scene magazine in response to threats from Coughlin's lawyer, and resulted in the firing of the reporter today, James Renner.  Full story at my blog.

See Attached or Norm, Jeff, or Jeff can you insert this in the body?

Glad to help.  Jeff b

Councilman Protests Judge's Handling Of Graffiti Suspects

Our two-faced hypocrite Sen. George Voinovich has been caught revealing his true nature.

In Defense of Pirates
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/allison-kilkenny/in-defense-of-pirates_b_\
185450.html> 4-10-09 Huffington Post by Allison Kilkenny

 Veterans and Service Members
Respond to President Obama’s
April 7, 2009, Iraq speech
to service members in Baghdad

President
Obama made an unexpected stop in Baghdad this week for a photo-op in
which he addressed U.S. service members. What wasn’t unexpected,
however, was the content of the president’s remarks.

He kept his
talk brief, but full of chauvinist language directed at the Iraqi
people, which drew applause when he demanded that the Iraqi people

I don't see much of a difference between what is happening off of Africa and what has happened with Citi, Morgan Stanley, Greenberg's AIG, BoA, and the rest of our patriot corporations here in the USA. 

Any discussion?

Petitions filed to recall mayor

By Stephanie Warsmith
Beacon Journal staff writer

POSTED: 08:40 p.m. EDT, Apr 10, 2009

This building on Euclid is coming down this weekend...another piece of Cleveland history bites the dust.  Craig Bobby calls it a sea of holes...and in the comments Tim Ferris explains why young people give up on this town.

Truth be told - I lived with a household of poets at Oberlin.

I'd get home at the end of along day in the electronic music studio and practicing to be "Papageno" to:

- hold on, hold on, listen to this: "Graph to me the breast you cut off to fire better with........"

or

- "inside the valley that lies between a shrug"

or