2.28 Derek Thompson in The Atlantic: In 1980, the highest-earning men actually worked fewer hours per week than middle-class and low-income men, according to a survey by the Minneapolis Fed. But that’s changed. By 2005, the richest 10 percent of married men had the longest average workweek. In that same time, college-educated men reduced their …
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Frank Robinson was traded to the Baltimore Orioles before the start of the 1966 season, the year I turned 13. I didn’t have long years of observation to draw up, but even then I recognized that I had never seen a player who played with his intensity and aggressiveness. We had had good players on …
2.8 Albert Finney dies 2.7 Huffington Post: David Pecker, the chief executive of American Media Inc., which publishes the tabloid National Enquirer, threatened to publish embarrassing photos of Jeff Bezos if he didn’t stop investigating Pecker’s company, according to the Amazon CEO. Bezos revealed the alleged threat, which was sent through AMI chief content officer …
Ginny and I and our friends Cathy and Tim caught Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams at the Irvington Town Hall on Saturday, February 2nd. They were tremendous, and the hall was intimate and comfortable.
1.31 The Polar Vortex comes to New York 1.31 George Will in the Post: “[Klobuchar‘s] special strength, however, is her temperament. Baseball, it has been said, is not a game you can play with your teeth clenched. That is also true of politics, another day-by-day game with a long season. It requires an emotional equipoise, …
This article appeared in the New York Times on January 21, 2019. This week, the Baseball Hall of Fame will announce a new class of inductees, setting off rounds of celebrations — and debates. Fans will argue over whether Mariano Rivera deserves unanimous approval, or whether the use of performance-enhancing drugs should permanently block the …
1.21 Wealth held by the world’s billionaires has grown from $3.4 trillion in 2009, right after the meltdown, to $8.9 trillion in 2017. (UBS and PwC Billionaires Insights via Bloomberg) The 3.8 billion people who make up the world’s poorest half saw their wealth decline by 11% last year. (Oxfam, which works to alleviate poverty, …
“We will move forward, not by building walls, but by building bridges.”
Last night we saw The Play That Goes Wrong at the Lyceum Theater on West 45th Street. It was hilarious! We laughed and laughed, and then laughed some more. From left: Shawn, Molly, Ginny, me, Cara, and Cara’s friend Joe. Those Broadway theater people–they know what they’re doing!
12.31 On the final episode of Escape at Dannemorra, Michael Imperioli plays the Gov. He is undersized and underused, but he conveyed the Gov’s confidence. 12.30 Mike Allen in Axios: One of the most important trends likely to drive the 2020 presidential race: A growing disillusion with capitalism as practiced, and a coming struggle over …