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Barley Literate: Who will be president in 2017?
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My goal is lucidity. If your comments clarify mine, so much the better. If you are informed or enlightened or amused or persuaded, so much the better….Rick Subber. Tuesday, May 19, 2015. Who will be president in 2017? Who will be president in 2017? A lot of people care, of course, but no one knows. It’s unknowable right now. Too many candidates, too many variables, too many unknown events yet to happen between now and the 2016 election. It’s a waste of time. The media and the talking heads are devoting m...
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Barley Literate: Beyond goofy….
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My goal is lucidity. If your comments clarify mine, so much the better. If you are informed or enlightened or amused or persuaded, so much the better….Rick Subber. Thursday, May 14, 2015. Gerrymandering has destroyed much of the legitimacy of the American electoral system. In Great Britain, the winner-take-all rule and a multi-party system have done much the same thing. Queen Elizabeth II presides over a patchwork of political strongholds that put the lie to any common sense notion of democracy. Of all v...
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Barley Literate: Direct to California, c. 1869
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My goal is lucidity. If your comments clarify mine, so much the better. If you are informed or enlightened or amused or persuaded, so much the better….Rick Subber. Friday, May 15, 2015. Direct to California, c. 1869. You need to get from New York to San Francisco in a hurry. By train, it will take 7 days and cost $2,500. Do you go for it? In 1870, you did. The transcontinental railroad was completed in May1869. On a bench in the third class coach. I know, don’t even think about it. Completed a 48-mile li...
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History: Bottom Lines: The Kent State thing
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I'm a historian.I'm posing questions, and offering discussion, about the realities of the history we think we know, and some aspects of history that we don't fully know. If your comments clarify and expand mine, so much the better.Rick Subber. Sunday, May 10, 2015. The Kent State thing. Tip: If the guy has a loaded gun, don’t throw stones at him. As it happened, I was in Vietnam at the time, serving our country. When I heard the grisly Kent State news, in US Army headquarters in Danang, my first reac...
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Barley Literate: The backstory of income inequality
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My goal is lucidity. If your comments clarify mine, so much the better. If you are informed or enlightened or amused or persuaded, so much the better….Rick Subber. Sunday, April 19, 2015. The backstory of income inequality. Every concerned politician and public watchdog should be talking about information like this:. Nationally, productivity is up 243 percent since 1948, but the wages of most private sector hourly employees are up only 109 percent. Another thing: what started happening in the 1970s?
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Barley Literate: B. B. King, R. I. P.
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My goal is lucidity. If your comments clarify mine, so much the better. If you are informed or enlightened or amused or persuaded, so much the better….Rick Subber. Saturday, May 16, 2015. B B King, R. I. P. Let’s hear it for Mr. B. B. King! I have a bright memory of seeing and hearing the King of the Blues a long time ago, in the late ‘80s, on Long Island, with my son. Wherever B. B. King went, he made the blues happen. Farewell to Mr. B. B. King! Riley B. King (1925-2015), R. I. P. Saturday, May 16, 2015.
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Barley Literate: Is there really a Republican Party?
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My goal is lucidity. If your comments clarify mine, so much the better. If you are informed or enlightened or amused or persuaded, so much the better….Rick Subber. Wednesday, May 6, 2015. Is there really a Republican Party? Is there really a Republican Party? At last count, 20 men and one woman have said in public that they are at least seriously thinking about seeking the Republican nomination for president at the convention in July next year. I suggest that the political stance that most obviously gets...
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Barley Literate: Top admin salaries driving college costs?
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My goal is lucidity. If your comments clarify mine, so much the better. If you are informed or enlightened or amused or persuaded, so much the better….Rick Subber. Saturday, April 18, 2015. Top admin salaries driving college costs? A law professor says “the real reason” college tuition is shooting skyward is that campus administrator staffing and salaries are more or less going through the roof. A couple weeks ago. We need to eliminate some student amenities (like multi-million-dollar fitness facilities)...
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Barley Literate: The wisdom of Jean de La Fontaine (part 3)
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My goal is lucidity. If your comments clarify mine, so much the better. If you are informed or enlightened or amused or persuaded, so much the better….Rick Subber. Wednesday, May 13, 2015. The wisdom of Jean de La Fontaine (part 3). 8220;Plus fait douceur que violence.”. Kindness does more than violence. Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695). Century French fabulist and poet. From Fontaine’s Book VI (1678-1679), Fable 3. A nice thought, even nicer expressed in French. Never sell the bear's skin.". Direct to Ca...
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Barley Literate: Railroad safety: why aren't we outraged?
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My goal is lucidity. If your comments clarify mine, so much the better. If you are informed or enlightened or amused or persuaded, so much the better….Rick Subber. Wednesday, May 20, 2015. Railroad safety: why aren't we outraged? The May 12 Amtrak crash. In Philadelphia was a terrible tragedy. The train was moving at 106 mph in a 50 mph zone, and jumped the tracks on a curve. Eight people died, about 200 were injured. Why aren’t some railroad execs going to jail? Just do as I say. Top admin salaries driv...
