Showing posts with label society. Show all posts
Showing posts with label society. Show all posts
Monday, March 06, 2023

Fading Families

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 Don't remember what I've written here about genealogical research.  My sister did a lot during a year when she was no longer teachi...
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 18, 2023

Inverted Social Norms

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Back the day rural areas were viewed positively, with high morality, great character, all the virtues (at least so my mother thought). Meanw...
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...
Thursday, October 06, 2022

On Pot

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 I suspect I've written on the subject before, but the president just pardoned everyone convicted of marijuana possession under federa...
Monday, October 03, 2022

The Big Sort

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[Note: I drafted this several days ago but didn't publish.  Then I wrote yesterdays post . Although I never added the links, I ] I'v...
Sunday, October 02, 2022

The Big Sort and Rural Migration

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 Can't find sources for my guesses.  This is the closest , showing the ratio of women to men in rural areas went from 99.8 in 1990 to 99...
Thursday, September 22, 2022

Hasidic School in New York

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 NYTimes recently ran an  article , seeming to show that because of their political clout, Hasidic schools spend most of their time on relig...
Saturday, September 17, 2022

Future Job Losses--Data Entry, Secretaries

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 Ran into a projection of occupantions predicted to lose jobs over the next 10 years. Don't have the link. As I recall, data entry types...
Friday, September 09, 2022

Unbelievable--So Much for White Superiority

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The other day the Times had an article discussing the composition of the cabinet selected by PM Truss, which notably had no white males in ...
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...
Saturday, July 23, 2022

Things Get Better?

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As someone who lived through the 1960's, I sometimes get impatient with today's discussions of race  and its problems.  I remember h...
Wednesday, June 29, 2022

Roles and Metaphors?

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 Found myself changing from my usual jeans and work shirt into khakis and button down shirt the other day.  Why?  Wife and I going to see th...
Tuesday, June 28, 2022

Tattoos

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NY Times says 1/3 of Americans have a tattoo. That's a big change in the culture from my youth, when tattoos were limited to a few sail...
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, February 23, 2022

Changing Rural Population

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 Interesting post on Rural Blog  about the changing demographics of rural areas.  Briefly, for the first time ever total US population in a...
Tuesday, January 25, 2022

Moving to Subscriptions: Two Class Society

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 There seems to be a lot of things moving to subscriptions--free broadcast service is losing out to them. That's true in the blogging un...
Friday, January 21, 2022

Trust

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 Nice line from a New Yorker article on AI fighters:  “There’s a saying in the military,” Peter Hancock, a psychology professor at the Unive...
Sunday, January 09, 2022

A Civil War? No

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 A rash of stories about the decline of our democracy and the possibility of a civil war.  See this in the New Yorker. I'm not worried....
Monday, November 01, 2021

Does College Broaden One?

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I read this the other day: A university is a place where minds should be opened, not closed; where perspectives should be broadened, not na...