http://www.thinkingpress.com Thinking is a pretty rare thing these days. Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:50:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Click here for the full Video Madame Speaker, Vice President Biden, Members of Congress, and the American people: When I spoke here last winter, this nation was facing the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. We were losing an average of 700,000 jobs per month. Credit was frozen. And our financial ... http://www.thinkingpress.com/2009/09/president-obama-address-to-joint-session-of-congress-on-health-care-full-text/ The breathtaking battle that is taking place in America today over health care is deeply troubling in many ways, but the principle factor behind this contentious war is one that goes to the heart of our democracy. It is a corrupting power so intertwined with our American dream that it ... http://www.thinkingpress.com/2009/09/the-war-against-american-progress/ Carol Phillips, a "tweep" of mine and marketing professor at Notre Dame University, recently wrote an article describing an alledged failure of the popular social medium Twitter to offer real value to the Millenial Generation also known as Generation Y. The article, which focuses largely on a comparison of the ... http://www.thinkingpress.com/2009/07/twitter-is-not-facebook-and-it-doesnt-want-to-be/ If you read the newspapers, watch the news, and search the internet for new of the economic crisis, you will get the impression that the global recession is easing and may soon "bottom out." The Obama Administration's stimulus package, coupled with a infusion of funds into ... http://www.thinkingpress.com/2009/06/for-most-americans-the-worst-consequences-of-the-economic-crisis-are-yet-to-come/ There are many wonderful things about Sonia Sotomayor's appointment to the US Supreme Court, but one of special interest to me, as a scholar of Bronx history, is the way it highlights an era when public housing was a place of hope and possibility for working class ... http://www.thinkingpress.com/2009/06/sotomayors-appointment-highlights-a-time-when-public-housing-was-a-place-of-hope/ Take everything you know about traditional media and throw it out a ten story window. Laugh gleefully at its destruction and enjoy a baser instinct than your probably used to for the briefest of moments, go ahead. You will get far more joy that way than holding onto obsolete learning ... http://www.thinkingpress.com/2009/06/why-traditional-media-is-dead/ The National Review Online, perhaps the premier online journal for the conservative viewpoint, has a post today on "The Jim Cramer Treatment" that I was going to respond to until I saw this advertisement plastered on the page of their blog: The ad is as tasteless as it is offensive. I ... http://www.thinkingpress.com/2009/06/national-review-online-runs-tasteless-fear-mongering-911-ad/ For months I avoided it. I knew it was coming, after all I am a complete addict for social media, but also knew that I might not emerge before my eyes went blind from screen-itis. I joined the now ever-present Twitter a few months ago as an experiment. I had no ... http://www.thinkingpress.com/2009/05/why-twittering-only-sounds-rediculous-and-has-changed-the-world/ While all blogging is an exercise in mild narcicism you will all be pleasantly surprised to find I expect you to be exhuberant about my return to writing for the Thinking Press. It has been about five months since I lost a bit of interest in maintaining this publication, and there ... http://www.thinkingpress.com/2009/05/thinking-press-is-coming-back/ -- This is an April Fools Article...Got you! -- Senator John McCain had no comment when asked Wednesday morning about rumors that Sarah Palin, the former Vice Presidential candidate and 2012 GOP Presidential hopeful, is pregnant and the child may be his. Rumors began after a highly secretive doctors visit by ... http://www.thinkingpress.com/2009/04/is-sarah-palin-pregnantwith-john-mccains-child/