I got an email this morning telling me that the most purely wonderful voice in Cambridge is now silent. Peter Gomes died yesterday, of complications from a stroke. He was sixty eight — younger than I would have guessed, for he seemed somehow outside of time — and much too young to be gone.
Archives for March 2011
Help a Lady Out
Evelyn at Charlies Angels passes along the following story: Here is our newest rescue named Lady and her story and two pictures of her. We got her today from shelter and she has vet appointment on Wed, March 2nd for assessment on tumor on her stomach. She has been vaccinated and tested negative for heart …
The very serious Mike Huckabee
And he’s not even running for president most likely: I would love to know more. What I know is troubling enough. And one thing that I do know is his having grown up in Kenya, his view of the Brits, for example, [is] very different than the average American. […..] …if you think about it, …
Factoid Moment on the Death of the American Middle Class.
Update: I don’t feel a particularly upset stomach, but I regret that my calculator at least must have gastritis. As commenter TheF79 points out, I’ve double counted here: the inflation numbers reflected in the CPI are contained in the constant dollar calculation below, and so real incomes measured in purchasing power have in fact risen …
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Big Crowd at the Ohio Statehouse today
I don’t have any numbers, but it’s good to see them. Columbus Dispatch has it as “biggest rally yet”.
Affordable Care Act Alternatives
Here’s Ezra Klein on Obama’s statement yesterday on allowing states to depart from the federal plan for the state exchanges: The White House’s fact sheet here. For more on Wyden-Brown, which lets states receive money from the Affordable Care Act but implement an alternative policy so long as it accomplishes the law’s basic goals, read …
The new Gilded Age
Via Gin and Tacos, this quote from Jay Gould sums up contemporary America as well as it did the Gilded Age: I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half. It’s probably too long for a category title, unfortunately.