http://www.rustlesandglimmers.wellconstructedsentence.com/blog Nothing is more interesting than change and the possibility of it. The reasons for transformation and the manner in which it unfolds in individuals and societies provide enormous if sometimes quiet drama. This blog examines situations in which ruin or decay--whether economic, political, or cultural--now approaches critical mass. It reports the whispers, rumblings, and shouts of dissatisfaction indicative of tension. It hearkens to the rustles, creaks, and explosions that precipitate decision. It seeks and encourages what may sometimes seem only the smallest glimmers of hope for positive shifts and resolution. From the individual to the nation, potential change comes in all forms and at all levels. There are therefore no limits to the topics upon which this blog may cast its attention. http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Kirsten E. Lombard Sat, 18 Oct 2008 17:03:33 -0500 Sat, 18 Oct 2008 17:03:35 -0500 iBlog 2.0 RC3 http://www.rustlesandglimmers.wellconstructedsentence.com/blog/C20080917223028/E20081015184407/index.html <br>I didn't think Henry Paulson could get any more brazen in overstepping the bounds of his proper authority. But when I woke yesterday morning and began to read the news, my jaw dropped yet again. Now he has literally strong-armed healthy banks into nationalization. I was already calling him King Henry, but now I realize it's time to endow him with a new title. How about Überkaiser...? Nah... Now that I think about it, I say we go with Führer. It's so historically rich, practically trips off the tongue, and is oh so fitting.<br> Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:44:07 -0500 http://www.rustlesandglimmers.wellconstructedsentence.com/blog/C20080917223028/E20081015184407/index.html http://www.rustlesandglimmers.wellconstructedsentence.com/blog/C20080917223028/E20080920073345/index.html <br>Henry, Henry, Henry... I see you. I see what you are. I see what you're doing. And I wouldn't trust you if my life depended on it. Which, at the moment, it kind of does. <br><br>If you, dear reader, are a taxpayer--and I'm guessing you do fall into that category--Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's "bold plan" to guard against recession both at home and abroad should have you hopping mad and incredibly suspicious. The plan, which we have yet to see in a finalized form, would give congress the power to buy bad debt from private industry. The price tag mentioned in the media this morning? I hope you're sitting down... $700 BILLION dollars. <br> Sat, 20 Sep 2008 07:33:45 -0500 http://www.rustlesandglimmers.wellconstructedsentence.com/blog/C20080917223028/E20080920073345/index.html http://www.rustlesandglimmers.wellconstructedsentence.com/blog/C20080917223028/E20080917223102/index.html <br>After today's news that the Federal Reserve will "loan" insurance conglomerate AIG $85 billion, I feel horrified but hardly surprised.... The Federal Reserve is currently taking full advantage of Wall Street's failures and, in so doing, succeeding wildly at fulfilling its covert mission: to empty the pockets of the American taxpayer.<br> Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:31:02 -0500 http://www.rustlesandglimmers.wellconstructedsentence.com/blog/C20080917223028/E20080917223102/index.html http://www.rustlesandglimmers.wellconstructedsentence.com/blog/C828044932/E20060322191259/index.html “No government has ever been beneficent,” Woodrow Wilson once asserted, “when the attitude of the government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.” <br><br>The French love to be contrary. I'm not talking out of school. I'm telling you what they proudly say about themselves. They are also stubborn and possess a remarkable ability to cling tenaciously to concepts, opinions, and strategies that most of them openly admit no longer serve them. Their recalcitrance has dug them quite a deep hole. There is now so much wrong with the French political, social, and economic systems that finding a coherent place to begin discussion becomes a monumental brainteaser. French students, however, have honed in on one: Dominique de Villepin’s "First Employment Contract," or Contrat premier embauche (CPE), slated to go into effect in April. Will these latest rumblings of discontent in France ultimately erupt into what that nation needs, something wholly new? Thu, 30 Mar 2006 19:12:59 -0600 http://www.rustlesandglimmers.wellconstructedsentence.com/blog/C828044932/E20060322191259/index.html