President Biden is a man of deep faith and extraordinary resilience. Chasten and I are keeping him, and the entire Biden family, in our prayers for strength and healing.
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sometimes i wonder how many versions of myself i’ve outgrown without even noticing. i look back at old photos and remember the thoughts i used to carry, the dreams i thought would save me. it’s strange how you can live inside yourself every day and still not realize you’re evolving. it’s only when you look back that you realize how far you’ve come, how many lives you’ve already lived in the same skin.
Please take note of my nephew’s place in the CLE half marathon this morning. 444th. Incredible.
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It was an honor to have met with President Biden in the Oval Office just weeks before he left office.
Today, I am sending my deepest prayers to the President and his family, and am hoping for his speedy recovery.
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When You're Bored, You're Being Shaped.
Boredom isn’t the absence of stimulation. It’s a test. Of what you reach for. Of what you default to.
Do you grab your phone? Or a pen? Do you scroll? Or sit with your thoughts? Do you numb? Or build?
Because what you do when you're bored becomes who you are when you're not.
Boredom is a doorway. To creativity. To clarity. To the things you keep avoiding.
Stop escaping it.
Bless Frances Perkins, and all the Democrats who work to keep and improve Social Security. We must elect Harris/Walz!
My great aunt ran some welfare agency -- perhaps unemployment -- based in N.Y.C. either for the city or the state. She knew these people and worked on some occupational job-satisfaction task force that created some test in which over eighty per cent of American workers did not like their jobs. No surprise.
The problem is my family's mythology. While my details may be in parts apocryphal, with me contributing, Aunt Lolly was pretty amazing: Ann Arbor under-graduate and Sorbonne Masters. Sadly she…
Another problem,. Ned, is the use of the word "welfare" frequently interpreted as an unearned gift from the government to an individual. Neither Social Security nor Unemployment benefits are. Both programs are paid for by the working individual. An example of welfare is the 'oil depletion allowance' an unearned gift to the fossil fuels industry which has done NOTHING to earn it.
Can't really say NOTHING, Fay.
The fossil fuel industry employs thousands of lobbyists in Washington, D.C., and thousands elsewhere to wine, dine, bribe, suck up to, and generally corrupt the corruptible in Congress.
Just think what this country would be like if political campaigns were publicly financed and lasted weeks instead of months. And politicians could not be bought.
I can imagine such a country, Harvey.
But could that country be this one -- when we all know perfectly well that this one has its K-12 all totally dehumanized, strangled by the profiteers of standardized testing? -- when we all know that this one has its college students massively strangled by the ghoul gargantuan dominance of group identity silos, by biz ed, and by banks and their capture of the most historic debt load ever in U.S. history?
Having worked at an executive level at one of the largest banks in the country, I can tell you that people who actually run the banks concern themselves with profitability, credit quality, soundness, sales, safety and security, growth, the current economy, and whatever glimpse of the coming environment their execs and specialists can provide. There is never any discussion of the confusing gobbledy-gook word salad you mention, something that I’m sure sounded fine when you made it up.
As I suppose…
Congratulations on your success in banking, Tom. I also had a career in banking. While the capital markets had many innovations in products and trading during my time in them, my concern was that such innovations rarely, if ever, produced something.
The overwhelming pressures for profits; shifting and, at times, skewed micro-incentive structures; corruption of market practices; as well as, the demise of the what remained of the Glass-Steagall Act led to the melt-down of 2007-08.
By then I was wit…
On the bankers thinking they are the smartest people in the room, I found that to be the case, too. Some, of course, were truly brilliant. But most, like me, were seduced by being quick with numbers. Kudos to your bank. Sounds like Wells Fargo or (if I remember correctly) U.S. Bank or Morgan Gty or P.N.C.
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