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American swagger
Swagger exists at the edge of hubris; it’s the last few feet on the cliff of confidence that separate you from the long fall into pride and narcissism.
Swagger is close to bullshit. But in the gap there is something real. In a recent piece reviewing the film “G-20”, the Economist wrote, “European admiration for American swagger runs back through the arrival of GIs in the second world war to early Hollywood.”
This version of swagger captures—admittedly maybe the outer edges—a hea…
Response To My Post On Corporate Pay.
From Jimmy Coggins
“The ironic thing about this argument is that the very same CEO’s oftentimes fail miserably, get fired, and walk away with multimillion golden parachutes. If a CEO is actually bringing that much added value to the company, I would understand it, but it seems t…
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On April 13, 1896, the first FEC locomotive arrived at the terminus of Avenue D in downtown Miami. This represented the completion of the FEC extension to Miami and provided Henry Flagler, as well as other FEC dignitaries, the opportunity to travel by train to what would become the City of Miami on July 28, 1896. The train mostly carried…
