From here. During years with Republican presidents, wealthy people experience more income gains than the less wealthy, and the opposite is true with a Democratic president (the less wealthy experience more income gains than the wealthy). That’s pretty much what you’d expect. The more interesting thing? In years with Democratic presidents, all income groups (even…
Winsome has been busy playing tug of bucket with Braveheart (under the fence). She is clueless about apples, but we expect she will learn. She is very easy to handle. The Nationwide wrangler loved her. He had much less kind words for the mule that broke his ties and followed her off the van. He…
Awhile back, I asked why our Democracy sucks. Here’s a piece of the answer, and a hint at the solution. As it’s on the agenda for Sydney’s cyber/info/tech law reading group tomorrow, I just watched this presentation by Lawrence Lessig. (I’ve long been a Lessig fan, you might know him as the guy who started…
Berck talked me into joining him in New York for the weekend for his next-to-last free weekend. He flew up there on Thursday. He sent me an e-mail when he landed saying he thought he’d left his lights on in his car, and could I please go buy some jumper cables and remove the battery…
Someone sent me black SmartWool socks, I assume for my birthday. Whoever you are, thanks! I’ve got them in the wash and plan to wear them tomorrow!