Tag: life
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1929-A Christmas of Hope and Doubt
No one, I suspect, will ever explain totally satisfactorily the Great Crash of 1929. It occurred , more or less, in late October(bad month for the market) and wiped out trillions(maybe billions?) of dollars of invested wealth. Many books have been written on this from John Kenneth Galbraith’s “The Great Crash” about 2 generations ago,…
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Shock and confusion
I had been planning on writing on something else soon. Perhaps I still will. But I was grabbed by the story out of TN which has been presumably been widely read over the last few days. You may be familiar with it. I mean, of course, the TN execution of Byron Black and the ironies,…
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Sin No More–(But Keep Your Balance Too, Folks)
“Sinners”–Directed by Ryan Coogler–starring Michael B Jordan and a lot of people I don’t know–just released “The Hunt” by Faye Kellerman–copyright 2022–Harper Collins I hardly know how to start this article. Maybe I’ll be better at ending it–maybe not. Maybe I’ll just make a fool of myself and display some of the issues that go…
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An Open Letter to Michael Smerconish
Dear Michael, First of all, I am a fan who rarely misses one of your telecasts and who thinks the people who denounce you as being a toady of one side or the other are full of crap. That established, I need to dissent from some–not all-you had to say about college education recently. For…
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