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Last weekend I worried about a tropical storm that became a hurricane at the last minute and then became a devastating flooding event. After that, I was kind of listless the rest of the week so my creativity and productivity is at a low point. Tonight, I’m just going to do a quick post about…
Well, it’s twenty years since that dreadful day. Since then America, and the world, has experienced a lot: the Great Recession, a black president, forever war, the rise of the Republican hard right, 2016 election, pandemic, multiple racial reckonings, climate change. Um, it’s been stressful, especially the last two years with America being split. I…
“The American economy runs on poverty, or at least the constant threat of it. Americans like their goods cheap and their services plentiful and the two of them, together, require a sprawling labor force willing to work tough jobs at crummy wages. On the right, the barest glimmer of worker power is treated as a…
Just a short post tonight but I saw an interesting statistic about how many people are for or against masks. It looks like those against the mask mandates are a minority (31% against and 69% for, from an NPR article “The Topic Of Masks In Schools Is Polarizing Some Parents To The Point Of Violence”)….
I know Milton Friedman mainly for his idea that the purpose of business is to maximize profits over anything else and ignore the “good for the community” stuff. Companies should stay away from considering the welfare of all stakeholders other than the shareholder. Profit maximization at all costs – rah rah rah. I’ve yet to…
Ahh, it’s that time of the year again where I worry about the hurricanes spinning in the Atlantic. I hate it. I wonder if constantly worrying about the climate change and the pandemic is why we have increasing tension and increasing violence? Obviously, a lot of us are not handling these stresses very well. So,…