Speech and call and response

Aretha¹:
Eric: She good.
Me: MMMmm-hmm
Similarly huddled woman to my right: Smile, quiet laugh
Criticisms² of the speech garner my response below:
I can’t really disagree that the speech wasn’t some soaring arc, but to say it wasn’t what the crowd wanted seems really arrogant. Can you truly speak for 1.8 million people? You certainly don’t speak for me, [...]

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At last…

I prefer to let my thoughts percolate for a while, but for now Etta James has my thoughts in mind.
At last, my love has come along
My lonely days are over
And life is like a song

Ooh At last
the skies above are blue
…
at last

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Economics is just Religion for the bookish

Subtitle: It’s best to pick one that’s not so obnoxious.
One of the reasons I gave up economics (besides the math) was that it resembles religion far too much. It is a matter of belief, of strongly held belief, that brooks no wavering, no possibility of changing one’s mind. When I studied it in high school [...]

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“Molasses running uphill in a snowstorm”

In exactly two weeks the end of this administration will come and a new one will begin. It is without a doubt a happy occasion for most, including myself, albeit from perhaps a slightly different angle than many on whose side I usually find myself seated. It is not the passing of one man in [...]

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