Monday, February 28, 2022

What Happened to Civil Service?

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 I'm not referring narrowly to the federal civil service but to the idea of serving the society, often through working for the governmen...
Friday, February 25, 2022

Amish Versus Satmars

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 New Yorker has a review of a book on the Satmar , the Hasidic sect with its own town in NY. It starts with this joke, which led me to thi...
Thursday, February 24, 2022

Trump, the Last Gasp of the Patriarchy?

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 There was a sudden burst of women running and winning as Republicans in 2020. Some of them were and are supporters of the former president,...
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, February 22, 2022

An Ombudsman for EULAs?

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 Marginal Revolution has a post  which refers to EULA (end user legal jargon). Seems to me we consumers need an ombudsman with authority ove...
Saturday, February 19, 2022

No Fax Macine

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Politico has an interview with Judge Luttig, a former circuit court judge appointed by a Republican, about his involvement in reinforcing V...
Friday, February 18, 2022

An Archive of Their Own

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 As the early adapters among the silent and boomer generations go to the grave what happens to their digital archives? As a failed historian...
Thursday, February 17, 2022

Return to the Movies

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 After roughly two years my wife and I returned to the movies today-- Belfast. We enjoyed it: some laughs, a moist eye or two, and an educat...
Wednesday, February 16, 2022

Egalitarianism and Mobility

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 Ran across a statement in a discussion of declining social mobility in the US that these days the more equal societies have more social mob...
Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Who Would Enslave Britons in the Eighteenth Century?

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 What threatened Britain in the 18th century that Britons would not be slaves, as in the refrain of Rule, Britannia.  The poetry was writte...