Category Archives: Democracy

Goodbye Person of Interest, gone but forever prescient

Posted on June 4, 2016 by ann li-summers

Despite appearances, I am not that avid a Person of Interest fan, I just like the strength/flaws of Shaw/Root…a symphony.  The program was basically the problem of machine intelligence and the role of human ethics in its construction with a … Continue reading →

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From SteamPunk to Trumpunk’d Americans… a libertarian/GOP social-media battle/alliance

Posted on May 30, 2016 by ann li-summers

 By ann summers From SteamPunk to Trumpunk’d Americans… a libertarian/GOP social media battle/alliance to come or will Bernie’s youth followers vote their real interests. It’s more than Hillary’s gaffe about the need to redirect coal producing communities but to make sure that the … Continue reading →

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Elon Musk & Aeon Flux: will Mars be only for the 1%

Posted on May 30, 2016 by ann li-summers

A million folks on Mars could be the Earth’s Plan B Continue reading →

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Rebranding The Donald as The Saint Ronald

Posted on May 28, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers With revisionists spinning tehDonald as the rebirth of Lincoln or Reagan, so much will be made of the early, recent closeness of polling for Hillary versus tRump. And certainly Hillary is no Jimmy Carter, centrism notwithstanding. And even … Continue reading →

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John Barron-Miller: Harbinger of a V for Vendetta Business Plot

Posted on May 22, 2016 by ann li-summers

Thomas Cole (1801–1848) Destruction from The Course of Empire. 1836 painting  39 ½ x 63 ½ in (100.33 x 161.29 cm) New-York Historical Society   By ann summers November 8, 2016 could signal the end of the Republic when the American … Continue reading →

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Never Trump should be Always Hillary

Posted on May 21, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers   Nate Silver wrote an extensive mea culpa that ostensibly ignored those media industry resources that ESPN had available to study Trump success. Nate’s omitting the multi-modal effects of looking at Trump’s celebrity media reputation and Q-scores as well as … Continue reading →

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Hillary must resist the temptation to Triangulate

Posted on May 19, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers More surprising is that there is a literature going back to 2010 urging that the Democratic party move past the linear model of political triangulation as a strategic messaging option. There are serious reasons why Hillary’s triangulating her … Continue reading →

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Trump Nationalism on the Links where pivots are divots

Posted on May 12, 2016 by ann li-summers

  By ann summers Gonna be winning for The Donald, regardless of the 8 November outcome.   The Trump brand will benefit, and his global legacy has already been assured, even in its vulgarity. All Trump golf courses are branded … Continue reading →

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Why yes, that is an equation in my pocket, and no, I’m not happy to sit next to you!

Posted on May 8, 2016 by ann li-summers

  By ann summers Use a differential equation, get profiled… Pasta sauce is called “gravy” in South Philly but if you look too “foreign” and know some math, you could get in trouble. Gonna be a tough time at the … Continue reading →

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Revisionist Histories and a return of Glass-Steagell

Posted on May 2, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Perhaps Donald Trump has proven that it takes a village idiot to triangulate ten garlic bulbs and take puma mountain by strategy. Or despite hip-hop musicals about Alexander Hamilton, will the eventual POTUS think about central banking as part of … Continue reading →

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