Via Nate Silver..his thoughts and discussion at the link.
The above data says that liberals are on the average less happy than conservatives across all of these demographic and behavioral categories.
What do you think is going on with this?
Some Chicago Boyz know each other from student days at the University of Chicago. Others are Chicago boys in spirit. The blog name is also intended as a good-humored gesture of admiration for distinguished Chicago School economists and fellow travelers.
Via Nate Silver..his thoughts and discussion at the link.
The above data says that liberals are on the average less happy than conservatives across all of these demographic and behavioral categories.
What do you think is going on with this?
I cannot think of anytime in history where such a relatively small violent act on the people of Israel had such profound consequences for the world. From that heinous act came the decapitation of Hamas and Hezbollah leadership, and now the near destruction of Iran’s leadership and nuclear weapons capability. The only thing that comes to mind for me is the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, which cost 10s of millions of lives, became the basis for the Cold War with a Communist Russia, erased an empire and redrew the map of Europe.
One of my Facebook Groups is devoted to a Sacramento of the past. Comprised mainly of Boomers like myself, we talk about the old times and places. Someone brought up the time the Beach Boys came to Sacramento in 1963 to play at our Memorial Auditorium. Admission was something that would seem foreign today – something like $3. It seems these days with the near collapse of the recording industry (and pirated and cheap tracks on Amazon), a band must make their money on tour. Anyway, the concert was so good they made an album of it.
Waxing nostalgic about the Tea Party and how it was marginalized, creating the void that Trump would later fill, I thought I’d reprint a November 5, 2010 post from my long-neglected blog.
For those of you who brought your Langston Hughes collections, turn to the poem Harlem:
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
Hughes may have had a particular tragedy in mind, but despair is universal, and he eloquently captures its essence. Deferred dreams are met in different ways. Some people give up. Some get angry at the dream, or at themselves for having it. Some manage to savor the dream, whether they have any real hope in achieving it or not. Some sink into chronic despair. And some “explode” – that is, they drive themselves to some desperate act.
How does a dream explode?
So Trump bailed early on the G7 and flew back to DC. He has put the NSC on standby in the Situation Room and the air is apparently full of Air Force tanker and other support aircraft crossing the Atlantic.
What does it all mean?
A friend of mine (jokingly) points out that Trump hates these G7 meetings and that perhaps he was using the Iran crisis as a “Get Out of Jail Free” card.
“Sorry guys, JD called and said I am needed back in DC. Have fun.”
My friend said that perhaps what JD called about was that what was going down in the Situation Room was in fact a poker game and that the boss was needed back pronto, if only to bring the McDonalds.
Maybe Trump did stage this all to get out of the G7. The end result is the same, for the remainder of the G7 everyone is going to realize that without the US there, whatever they say or do is irrelevant.
Trump was telling them, in so many words, that when it comes to the world the US is important and that they aren’t. Nobody needs Carney back in Ottawa or Starmer in London.
Given the meeting was in Alberta, maybe Trump even told Carney not to mess up the next US state before he gets back.