Thursday, August 14, 2014

NYTimes.com: Working Anything but 9 to 5

Earning a living wage is one thing. Having a stable work schedule is just as important. Workers who are at the mercy of a computer scheduling program suffer in ways that many of us are not aware. J5
 
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Working Anything but 9 to 5

By JODI KANTOR

Increasing numbers of low-income mothers and fathers are at the center of a new collision that pits workplace scheduling technology against the routines of parenting.

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Saturday, August 9, 2014

NYTimes.com: It’s a Can’t-Lose Year

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Op-Ed Columnist

It's a Can't-Lose Year

By GAIL COLLINS

Seriously, people. It?s only a bad year if you?re Santa Claus.

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Monday, August 4, 2014

Something to Know - 4 August

Clay Bennett

This piece by Charles Blow kind of wraps up John Boehner's gang of clowns in one package for the season:

So with Congress going on vacation, so am I.  I will return some time during the first week in September.  Wife and I are doing the bucket list thing - river cruise on the Danube, and a bus ride from London to Wales, to Scotland, and all around and back to London.  My daughter-in-law will fill in with a few news-worthy items as appropriate from her Santa Monica News Bureau - but you have to check it out by going to 


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Dick Armey (the former House majority leader) is a stupid person's idea of what a thoughtful person sounds like.
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Sunday, August 3, 2014

Something to Know 3 August

History of religion marred by unceasing intolerance

This past few weeks, we have been reminded of the 40th anniversary of the existence of Nixon's oval office tapes.  Most of the analysis of those recordings dwell on the revelation of the basic insecurities and malevolent weakness of RMN.  In this piece, Maureen Dowd leads us to a similar exercise where the 43rd president has his own character failings as he would write a book about his father.  Throw in a poke at Obama in the end, and you have an interesting read:

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Juan
 
 
Dick Armey (the former House majority leader) is a stupid person's idea of what a thoughtful person sounds like.
-- Ezra Klein     

Friday, August 1, 2014

Something to Know - 1 August

Signe Wilkinson

1.  Experience tells us that we learn from our experience.  Not so, says the Nobel Economist.  Seems like there are always experts who ignore the past in preparing for the present and future:

2.  Anti-Poverty programs are efforts to help those who need help.  Whether it is government or private organizations, David Brooks rightly shows that understanding the effects on the receivers of the programs are probably just as important as  what is given:
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Dick Armey (the former House majority leader) is a stupid person's idea of what a thoughtful person sounds like.
-- Ezra Klein