tomjlowe

Lawyer, violinist, singer, writer, programmer, progressive

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@AskAManager Check out 14-Century Europe after the Black Death. Same result. *A Distant Mirror* by Barbara Tuchman.

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@frankjdistefano @DKThomp We meet to do some in-depth thinking about what “competition” should mean in the 21st Century. At the moment, the word is used in almost a Hobbesian sense.

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@peligrietzer John Kenneth Galbraith coined of the phrase “convenient social virtue“ to denote “virtues” that kept the masses in line, but which were ignored by the power elite.

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@wbmosler During WWII the U.S. sold savings bonds to soak up excess demand.

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@Noahpinion What is Kroger’s ROI? That’s the key.

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@Artzee_eff @Noahpinion I read that the V-1 had the same effect during the Battle for Britain. When the buzzing abruptly stopped you ran for cover.

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@sinden I’m in the hospital (not COVID) but my wife was able to sing this evening. I missed it.

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

This is a great video.

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@MeanPanduh No mystery. Evolution equipped us with the vision we now have because being able to see that portion of the spectrum enabled us to survive.

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@DoctorHenryCT Turf.

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@WalshFreedom To borrow from Robert Frost: “I have a lovers quarrel with my nation.“

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@GregMitch I wonder how many of that 4% would cut and run at the first sign of nastiness.

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@_ryanruby_ Knights take orders from their superiors.

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@ttscoff Ouch!

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@cjp_still A college degree is a PUBLIC GOOD. Most developed nations recognize this and fund free education for anyone who can meet admission requirements. To quibble about student debt is merely a device to avoid the big question: why can’t public goods be funded by the public?

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I asked my 7-year-old daughter what one book she would like to have on a desert island.

She said, “A book about how to survive on a desert island.”

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James Merrill, near the end.

“No dread. No bitterness. The end beginning. Today’s / Dusk room aglow / For the last time / With candlelight. / Faces love lit, / Gifts underfoot. / Still to be so poised, so / Receptive. Still to recall, to praise.”

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@MostlyDiff @Noahpinion Isn’t it amazing that all these things are tied together?

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@LHSummers Sensible nations know that education is a public good so all of society pays the costs.

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@Noahpinion “Institution” is appropriately vague. It’s meaning must be derived from context.