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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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, …
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!
12.13 Margaret Atwood: The systematic effort to drive a rift between access to knowledge and the citizens of a country has a familiar ring to this dystopian novelist. When I wrote The Handmaid’s Tale, I made sure that nothing went into it that had not come from somewhere in history. I used journalists, historians, and …
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12.6 Tennessee Titans running back Derrick Henry tied the NFL record witha 99 yard touchdown run against the Jacksonville Jaguars, highlighted by three amazing stiff arms of would-be tacklers. 12.6 Geore W. Bush eulogizes his father: In his inaugural address, the 41st President of the United States said this, we cannot hope only to leave …
We went to see see David Bromberg at the Colony in Woodstock, and who wandered onto the stage but Larry Campbell? Bromberg was terrific–in great voice, he performed with great verve and personality. And Larry was at his Larryest. We had a very good time.
11.30 George Herbert Walker Bush, 41st president, dies at 94. 11.30 Barck Obama, quoted in The Atlantic: “There was a reverence there for that [Oval] office that is independent of you, and if you don’t feel that, then you shouldn’t be there. Because a lot of fights, a lot of sacrifices, a lot of bloodshed …
10.31 Trump: “Paul Ryan should be focusing on holding the Majority rather than giving his opinions on Birthright Citizenship, something he knows nothing about! Our new Republican Majority will work on this, Closing the Immigration Loopholes and Securing our Border!” 10.30 Paul Ryan: “You cannot end birthright citizenship with an executive order.” 10.30 Whitey Bulger, …