Showing posts with label change. Show all posts
Showing posts with label change. Show all posts
Friday, March 03, 2023

Ask Not

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Much discussion on social media about declining mental health, particularly among the young. I'd venture to suggest that the distance ou...
Wednesday, January 11, 2023

"Aging Software"?--Tufekci Is Wrong?

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NYTimes columnist Tufekci had a piece   discussing Southwest Airlines problems in managing their airplanes and personnel.  I just looked it ...
Wednesday, December 07, 2022

Complexity of Modern Life

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 Had to go to my bank branch today and talk to a real person, who was very helpful BTW.  It was the first time in years.  I had told a bank ...
Saturday, December 03, 2022

Loss of Authority

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 Was thinking about the question of authority--who has it, what does it mean, etc. Seems to me "authority" has drained away from t...
Wednesday, August 10, 2022

Changing Times--Reversals of Roles

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 Live long enough and you might find white becomes black and black white.  That's an oversimplification, but it applies this week. When ...
Thursday, July 28, 2022

Civil War? Stuff and Nonsense

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 Stephens and Collins have a weekly conversation at the NYTimes. When he noted a fairly widespread fear of civil war, she had a response w...
Thursday, May 12, 2022

The End of Footbinding in Chinese Culture

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 In the past I've commented on Prof. Kwame Appiah 's book on Moral Revolutions, which includes a chapter on the end of footbinding ...
Friday, March 25, 2022

Where Have Friendships Gone?

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 David Brooks has a column in the Times today discussing friendships, how many we can maintain at various levels of intimacy.  He ends by ...
Monday, March 14, 2022

Structural Versus Individualized Causes

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 This post at Statistical Modeling suggests structural causes for an increase in traffic deaths, as opposed to the individualized "pan...
Wednesday, August 11, 2021

Gentrification: Disturbing a Way of Life

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 Liberals seem often to express sympathy for those adversely affected by gentrification.  Over the years I've seen articles in the Post ...
Saturday, November 07, 2020

The Erosion of Traditional {X}

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 The Post magazine has an article : "How Religion Can Help Put Our Democracy Back Together". It includes this sentence: "Mean...
Friday, May 01, 2020

The Wearing of Hats

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One of the things which fascinate me is the wearing of hats in the US. If you look at pictures showing massed men in the 1920's/30...
Monday, February 03, 2020

Adjusting to Innovation--Dentists

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When I grew up I only saw the dentist as couple times.  Then a dentist in the Army filled a small cavity, and I went years/decades before I ...
Friday, April 12, 2019

Samuelson and Education

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He concludes education programs have failed, because they haven't changed the gaps between ethnic  groups. Logically it's possible...
Tuesday, April 02, 2019

Have I Lived Too Long

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I confess these are two developments I never expected to see: a vegan burger from a fast-food chain (as it turns out, more than one such c...
Sunday, December 30, 2018

Evidence of Declension--US Going to the Dogs

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Don't know why but today I want to write about what can be seen as evidence of decline in the U.S. over my lifetime: holidays have ch...
Tuesday, October 02, 2018

The Decline of Churches (and GE)

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Monday the Post and Times both had articles on the decline of churches.  The Post covered the last service at a historic black church in N...
Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Change and the Geezer

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Was musing over the changes I've seen in my life: used to be only the Catholics did gambling--bingo nights funded them, another proof if...
Monday, July 11, 2016

A Great Cornellian Sees Light

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Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution has the text of a letter by E.B.White written in 1973. Trust me, I knew that time period, I lived thro...
Thursday, May 12, 2016

We've Come Far in 70 Years

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"This does not mean that I want to see us grow into a flabby country, with men who are unable to defend it physically. We might as ...