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'And it’s not a controlled burn,' said one top Democrat of the sex scandals wreaking havoc on Florida politics.
By Marc Caputo & Matt Dixon @ Politico.com, Nov. 20
It's about serious accusations of workplace sexual harassment. The real thing in the workplace, not private life issues. Did I say by important Dems? Like the state chair of the Dem party just quit?
[....] Republicans are gloating. [.....]
Yes, they mention one of the most brilliant most un-PC 1-liners in the history of comedy.
Guest op-ed by David Sax @ NYTimes.com Sunday Review, Nov. 18
[....] Ten years after the iPhone first swept us off our feet, the growing mistrust of computers in both our personal lives and the greater society we live in is inescapable [....]
This surprising reversal of fortune for these apparently “obsolete” analog technologies is too often written off as nostalgia for a predigital time. But younger consumers who never owned a turntable and have few memories of life before the internet drive most of the current interest in analog, and often include those who work in Silicon Valley’s most powerful companies [....]
In a world of endless email chains, group chats, pop-up messages or endlessly tweaked documents and images, the walled garden of analog saves both time and inspires creativity. Web designers at Google have been required to use pen and paper as a first step when brainstorming new projects for the past several years, because it leads to better ideas than those begun on a screen [....]
Everything we see was there in the open all along.
He wanted 5 kids to increase the chance 1 would be like him - meet Ivanka, heiress of the power duo.
Elsewhere a Czech official was commenting on Ivana's Olympic ski past: "people keep asking us about this girl - we have no record of anyone by this name". Never tell a small lie when a big lie will do. Times 2.
“When I heard that was the reason, like, ‘Oh, he’s just an old man and he doesn’t know any better and he’s just being harmless and playful and it’s just where his arm falls… I just burst into uncontrollable sobbing,” Corrigan said. “I just couldn’t sit with that. I can’t. I cannot sit with that. I can’t sleep anymore, because that’s not true, and it’s not an excuse.”
Eliminating regs and "accelerating vetting of bonuses to departing Wells Fargo bankers" who are leaving after Wells Fargo created millions of fraudulent accounts set up to bring in fees to boost the banks stock price.
How the president undermines Republicans’ traditional economic arguments.
By Corey Robin @ NewRepublic.com, Nov. 13
Robin is a professor of political science at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center. Author of The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump, he is currently at work on a book about Clarence Thomas and blogs at coreyrobin.com.
After suffering one humiliating failure after another this year, Republican lawmakers are attempting to get their agenda back on track with a campaign to cut taxes. But once again, they may find in Donald Trump a less-than-effective advocate for their goals. Not because Trump’s views are inconstant—though they are. Not because Trump is a fair-weather friend—though he is. No, Trump may prove a liability on tax reform because he exposes, more clearly than ever before, the fantasy that undergirds the Republican approach to the economy. Indeed, not since Teddy Roosevelt has the GOP had a leader whose views are more corrosive of the virtues of money and the value of markets [....]
Private equity firms overburdened businesses with debt, and now workers are paying the price. Will policymakers do anything about it?
By David Dayen @ NewRepublic.com, Nov. 14
The Macy’s near my house is closing early next year. The mall where it’s located has seen less and less foot traffic over the years, and losing its anchor store could set off a chain reaction. Cities across the country are facing this uncertainty, with over 6,700 scheduled store closings; it’s become known as the retail apocalypse.
This story is at odds with the broader narrative about business in America: The economy is growing, unemployment is low, and consumer confidence is at a decade-long high. This would typically signal a retail boom, yet the pain rivals the height of the Great Recession [....]
Op-ed by David French @ NationalReview.com, Nov. 14
Summary paragraph:
Roy Moore’s world is a world built on fear. It’s a world that glories in its extremes. It’s a world that’s destined for ruin, and before it goes down, it will consume and damage the most vulnerable among us — unless we end the cult of the Christian celebrity and the quest for certainty first.