Monthly Archives: January 2010
Bob Herbert on Howard Zinn
“Our tendency is to give these true American heroes short shrift, just as we gave Howard Zinn short shrift. In the nitwit era that we’re living through now, it’s fashionable, for example, to bad-mouth labor unions and feminists even as … Continue reading
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Collapse
I’m about to start Jared Diamond’s Collapse. Has anyone read that? If so, what did you think of it?
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The Terrible Terrys and Racism
I was five years old when my maternal grandmother passed away. She’d been born in 1875, and my best memories of her are of her in a rocking chair, her hands sewing, while she sits in a sunbeam streaming through the big southern window in my … Continue reading
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Minimum Wages Now and Then
I was talking with mom a few days ago when the conversation turned to the minimum wage. Soon enough, the two of us were trying to figure out how today’s minimum wage compared with the compensation people earned back when she … Continue reading
“Clothes, food, shelter: Satisfy these first, then teach people to be human.”
Some years ago, my second wife and I enjoyed reading Chinese literature together. Actually, she did all the reading because she was the only one of us who could translate Classical Chinese. My job was merely to listen to her. Tomoko had a … Continue reading
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