9.30 Robert Shapiro in The Washington Post: Using the White House’s preferred data, average earnings rose from $894.06 in January 2017 to $937.02 in August 2018. That suggests impressive gains of $42.96 weekly over the 20-month period and $30.02 weekly over the past year. But what about median earnings rather than average earnings — that …
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9.21 Paul Simon at Madison Square Garden 9.19 From Belichick: The Making of the Greatest Football Coach of All Time, by Ian O’Connor: “One New England assistant said the general feeling among staff members around that time wasn’t that Belichick‘s system could make Super Bowl quarterbacks out of all 32 NFL starters. ‘But if you …
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Governor Cuomo officially opened the Gov. Mario Cuomo Bridge, which crosses the Hudson between Westchester and Rockland counties. Named for his father, the bridge replaces the Tappan Zee bridge. The Governor was joined on the dias by Hillary Rodham Clinton
9.6 Washington Post: Trump reacted to the column with “volcanic” anger and was “absolutely livid” over what he considered a treasonous act of disloyalty and told confidants he suspects the official works on national security issues or in the Justice Department. . . .The phrase “The sleeper cells have awoken” circulated on text messages among …
8.31 Henry Eyring: “When you meet someone, treat them as if they were in serious trouble: you will be right more than half the time.” 8.28 John McCain in The Restless Wave: The moral values and integrity of our nation, and the long, difficult, fraught history of our efforts to uphold them at home and …
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On Wednesday the 18th, Cara and I went to see Beautiful: The Carole King Musical. We had fun!
6.28 Arnold Schwarzenegger: “It is foolish to bring back laughable, outdated technology to suit your political agenda. I mean, what are you going to bring back next? Floppy disks? Fax machines? Beanie Babies? Beepers? Or Blockbuster? Think about it. What if you tried to save Blockbuster?” 6.28 Stanley Greenburg: “Democrats should not be distracted by …
Ginny and I spent Saturday afternoon at the old ball game, and saw those young Yankees roll on. Giancarlo Stanton and Gary Sanchez homered, Luis Severino pitched eight shutout innings, and Aaron Judge blasted two rocket-like doubles. Fun! 1.) Judge 2.) Severino 3.) Sanchez 4.) Us
To celebrate my birthday, Ginny took me to Bethel Woods to see the so-called LSD Tour: Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle and Dwight Yoakum. They really rocked! 1.) The headliners together! 2.) Yoakum; 3.) Lucinda and Steve; 4) The very good opening act King Leg