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August is a wistful time. It’s still summer.But you can sense the joys of summer coming to an end. There was a time, as a youngster when Augusts were especially poignant… I have fond memories of trout fishing. As a kid in Pennsylvania, I’d start organizing my fishing gear almost as soon as the Christmas […]
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Today is the anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. To paraphrase from Linus ( yes, Linus the Peanuts cartoon character. Yougott’aproblemwi’dat?) – “That’s what Socialism is all about, Charlie Brown.” https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/soviets-invade-czechoslovakia Preview Open
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I have better things to do than subject myself to the propaganda mill of the Democratic (Socialist) Unconventional Convention. Even so, it has come to my attention that on Monday night, NY Governor Andrew Cuomo’s address to the DSUC (Pronounced ‘dey suck) featured him bragging about his record combating Covid19. Really? There’s not much to […]
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NJ Governor Murphy Has announced that NJ will be doing mail-in voting as an option in November. If the ballots and procedures are the same as for the earlier Primary, it’s a Catch-22 situation. Earlier this year, the lovely Mrs E and I received, unrequested, ballots for the NJ primary election. Because of the pandemic, […]
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It’s time to face the hard facts. We are didn’t get a border wall. We aren’t going to get a border wall. President Trump and the Republican Party have reneged on their promise of border security. I naively allowed myself to believe that, after almost 40 years of empty promises, this time was different. If […]
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As we were getting into the car to go out on a crystalline blue-sky day, the lovely Mrs E slid into the seat next to me and slipped on a pair of $300 Chanel sunglasses not her own. She smiled a Cheshire Cat grin. “What going on?” I asked. Her reply was priceless. “It’s good […]
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As someone who uses my phone much more than my computer, the following iPhone shortcut is just priceless. Where has this been hiding? You can use the space bar to move the cursor around a text box or document. Just hold down the space bar and Shazam! you can move the cursor around by using […]
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Reading some of the stories in @RightAngles recent post about embarrassing incidents calls to mind episode that straddles several categories. It is embarrassing and painful and guilty and sad among others. Since it doesn’t really fit there, I thought I’d just put it up as a stand alone post. My senior year in high school […]
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We had six inches of snow Thursday. That was the official total in Central Park. Six inches. But it was enough to bring chaos to NYC and NJ. Thankfully, I was working from home but some of my colleagues who left Brooklyn at about 3 PM didn’t get home to NJ until after 11. Major roads, bridges, and transit hubs were just plain closed for hours. That includes the George Washington Bridge and the Port Authority bus terminal.

My neighbor’s usual 11-minute drive home took two hours. Apparently the brain trust of Andrew Cuomo, Bill DiBlasio, and NJ’s newly elected Governor, Dropkick Murphy, couldn’t get the roads cleared or the trains and buses running.

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Michelle Obama’s much-hyped book releases on Tuesday followed by a multi-city book tour at stadium-sized venues. She got a ton of fawning publicity this weekend based on snippets of an interview with ABC’s Robin Roberts. So, just as the 2020 campaign season starts to shake out, Mrs. Obama will raise oodles of money, dominate the […]
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In almost everything I have read about WWI, a recurrent theme is “How could we have known the horror to come?” That this was the first war of the modern age where tactics barely progressed from Napoleon met modern artillery and automatic weapons. That the resulting carnage could not have been anticipated. And this is […]
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We will read lots of coverage about the horrific shooting last night in California. But let me call your attention to another shooting last night and the news coverage surrounding it. This one took place a few blocks from where I work in bustling downtown Brooklyn NYC. At a Target store in a downtown shopping center. One dead. The coverage is almost uniform…

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Every month I try to post the Full-Time jobs numbers from the latest BLS data release. These are not the widely reported ‘headline’ numbers. Those come from the Establishment Survey and include part-time employment. During the Obama presidency, many of the improvements in the ‘headline’ jobs numbers were increased in part-time employment. To me, Full […]
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There is an article in Forbes today that attempts to clarify some things about Social Security but confuses things instead. https://www.forbes.com/sites/teresaghilarducci/2018/10/19/social-security-does-not-add-to-the-federal-deficit/#7b9962b02081 Preview Open
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Today, 19 October, is the anniversary of the American victory over the British at Yorktown in 1781. British General Cornwallis surrendered his command, over 7000 troops, 800 sailors and 240 artillary pieces, to American General Washington and his French ally General Rochambeau; effectively ending the Revolution and securing independence for America. Of special note, the […]
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