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We All Have More Time to Read, in This Isolation. I Have Some Goodies to Share
Catching Up on Our Back Reading
Like many of you, I seem to always have a stack of magazines lying about that I am behind in reading. If I could sell al the Atlantics and New Yorkers I have lying about, I could probably make up most of the beating the stock market is inflicting on me just now.
But there is good news. As our splendid isolation continues, we get caught up on such things.
Trying to Get Well from the Pandemic Offers a Golden Opportunity to Advance
This country is going to spend a lot of money trying to restart our economy. That is a given, a necessary action. Whether we do so intelligently or not is another question.
Infrastructure Investments, Wherefore Art Thou?
This feeds into our so far, fruitless national discussion about infrastructure. We are about $13 TRILLION behind in our infrastructure investments. That includes not doing new work or maintaining what we have. Remember collapsing bridge stories? We still have thousands of unsafe bridges all over this country.
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Often Lost in Media Coverage in Normal Times, Governors Actually Run Things
Consider Governors
Several recent presidents have been governors: Carter, Reagan, Clinton, and Bush II. Even so, governors often get short shrift in media and in public attention. We tend to gravitate toward Washington personalities. This is an understandable, if oftentimes shortsighted, approach to picking our national leaders.
Washington personalities have the natural advantage of being in a global media capital. At some level, Washington based individuals also often deal in foreign policy and foreign crises. These yield valuable experience for a potential president.
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We Learn a Lot About Each Other in Such Times, Sometimes with a Laugh.
New Environments, Same Old DNA
Well, nothing like a few weeks of pandemic driven self-isolation to see what makes us all tick, eh? People change in new environments, as we see all around. But sometimes, we are predictable as can be.
Much of what has developed in society in recent weeks was foreseeable. Ah, but some were not so predictable. I have noted quite a few (changes? quirks? proclivities?) that I not have seen coming.
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Here is its formula: I+AxIL/NC = -0
As terrible as the Corona virus is, there is another that is ravaging our country. It is bad enough in and of itself, but it actually makes the other virus, indeed all our national problems, worse.
I am referring to the mental and emotional profiles that make up the Trump administration. If this were a biological infection, its component formula might read something like the following: I+AxIL/NC = -0
The Chemistry of Failure
I: Ignorance. Simple failure to know, to understand, to study a threat or a problem.
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What Happened in Wisconsin is a Call to Arms
This is Not an Especially Complicated Story
Wisconsin had a primary this week. The governor sought to maximize voting by mail. He considered postponing the primary, as have many other states in the midst of this pandemic.
No hyperbole here – people who had to vote in person put their lives – and those of poll workers – at very real risk. This is a no brainer, right? Not so fast.
The Republican legislature blocked any moves to improve safety while encouraging voting.
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But It’s Not Too Soon to Capture Lessons Learned While We Fight
The Close-In Fight
Back in my days as a combat arms officer in the Army, we would refer to the “close-in fight.” This was when the fighting got really close and personal. Wherein you often saw the face of the opposing soldiers, knowing that at the end of battle one group would live to fight another day, and one would not.
At that point, not much beyond what was happening right around you mattered. This was when your planning, resourcing, strategy,
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Let’s Chat for a Minute NOT about any Viruses or Politics
How does that sound for a change of pace? Neither topic will be gone for long, but let’s take a short break.
As usual, I have a ton of interesting points, articles, etc. that I enjoy sharing with you, but of late could not justify the use of space. Too much of importance going on. But that will be the case probably every day from now until – oh, let’s say November 3 (just to pick a random date, you know).
So much has been put into the leftover bin,
The Corona Virus Has Legions More News to Come. But Not All of It is Bad.
In the Age of the Corona Virus
By now, we are all feeling saturated with talk of the Corona virus. It seems to permeate everything, and we are just beginning to deal with this. We have some long days ahead. As with any major effect like this, there are side effects and spinoffs. Some of them are actually good things.
None of this outweighs the pain and misery of a pandemic. The slow start and remarkable missteps of the Trump administration are going to harvest a bitter fruit.
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In a Year of Elections and of the Corona Virus, We Should Pay Attention to These Issues
Elections always bring economic issues to the forefront. These are often the issues that most separate candidates and their voters. So it is this year. But we have a new shadow stalking us at present. That is, of course, the Corona virus. We still don’t even know what we don’t know about this menace, but we can already see economic factors that must be taken into account, even as they take shape.
Here are a few of the economic big-ticket items we should be focused on at this time,
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