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Ran into a rather interesting documentary this weekend that is worth checking out. Along the lines of a Niall Ferguson's, War of the World, this is a unique chronicalling of 20th century trends in political ideologies and social control.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Nightmares
(Politics of fear)

You can see most of the film on online.

You can see all of it here:
1/3
http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid=2798679275960015727
2/3
http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid=4602171665328041876
3/3
http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid=2081592330319789254


Trying to get moving on some more football posts, but I've got LASIK scheduled for Thursday (National Championship Game!?! OY!), so hopefully I'll be able to see something different in the game from here on out.

I avoid the Kabuki partisan politics of America as much as possible, but I do love my guy, Col. Andrew Bacevich (check out his publications), and he delivers as usual in this recent interview.



Coupled with last week's Moyer's historical reflection on LBJ's decisions, it becomes a sobering perspective of our current situation.

I haven't made my way through this in its entirety, but being short on content of late, I am putting this up for others to review (share).

This is a summary / analysis provided by a practicing NWLA doctor whom I happen to respect

HR 3200 Summary Title I
(http://sitekreator.com/brophyfootball9/main.html)

It is at least an honest assesment with what doesn't appear to be much bias (or feear-mongering hyperbole)


Being that the two things you shouldn't discuss is religion and politics, I figure I owe (politics) folks equal time for abuse

UPDATE 2:
http://0304.netclime.net/1_5/000/000/909/8dc/HR%203200%20title%201%20Summary.pdf

I have completed my review of Title II of H.R. 3200. Only 30 hours over 2 weeks to do so:) I really hope you all are reading my summary, because it really has been enlightening for me. Lot's of good stuff in this bill! Please share it with others if you agree.

The review has condensed two Titles, and several hundred pages into only 20. Title II was WAY more interesting and complex than Title I, in my opinion. If you got my first email, you can skip straight to Title II, though I did revise the first one just a bit and standardize my format, and I found that I understand it better after re-reading my summary.

UPDATE 3:
http://0304.netclime.net/1_5/000/000/91a/57f/HR_203200_20Summary.pdf

Time for my third installment...Title 3 of HR3200. It was long, but it abbreviated fairly short. For those of you who got my prior summaries of Title 1 and 2, it starts on page 23 of 28 if you want to skip right to it. I was a bit diheartened to discover that I have only made it through 160 pages of the 1016 page bill after 38 hours! I'm afraid I won't make it through it all, but I do want to at least get through Title 4, so at
least one more installment coming.

I did change some sections due to a better understanding or different opinion as I read further into the bill, and I marked them with red beside the section title if you want to reread them.

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I dunno.....
during my coaching hiatus, these were books I have read in the year "off"...

Mr.Clemens & Mark Twain - Justin Kaplan
The Slave Narrative - Marion Starling
Jefferson's Demons: portrait of a restless mind - Michael Beran
Are We Rome? - Cullen Murphy
Black rednecks and white liberals - Thomas Sowell.
How doctors think - Jerome Groopman.
Predictably irrational : the hidden forces that shape our decisions - Dan Ariely.
Great American Hypocrites - Glenn Greenwald
God is Not Great(How Religion Poisons Everything) - Christopher Hitchens
Negotiation Boot Camp - Ed Brodow
The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina - Douglas Brinkley
Rising Tide (Mississippi Flood of 1927 and how it Changed America) - John Barry
The Ape in the Corner Office - Richard Conniff
Ascent of Money - Niall Ferguson
The kingfish and his realm: the life and times of Huey P. Long - William Ivy Hair
Essential Chomsky - Noam Chomsky
Freakonomics - Steven Levitt,
1776 - David McCullough
American Theocracy - Kevin Phillips
No Asshole Rule - Bob Sutton
American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic - Joseph Ellis
Future of the Race - Henry Louis Gates &*Cornell West
Collapse (how societies choose to fail or succeed) - Jared Diamond
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - Frederick Douglass
The Sorrows of Empire - Chalmers Johnson
The Cajuns : from Acadia to Louisiana - William Faulkner Rushton
Are You There Vodka? - Chelsea Handler
Pure Drivel - Steve Martin
The Pity of War - Niall Ferguson
The new American militarism : how Americans are seduced by war - Andrew J. Bacevich.
Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky
Fiasco (the American military adventure in Iraq) - Thomas E Ricks
State of Denial - Bob Woodward
The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism - Andrew Bacevich
Quiet Strength - Tony Dungy
Meat Market - Bruce Feldman
Plan of Attack - Bob Woodward
Hubris - Michael Isikoff & David Corn
Great War for Civilisation - Robert Fisk
How Good Do You Want To Be? - Nick Saban