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Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford America
Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford America By Alissa Quart, 2018 In the introduction to her book Quart overviews the reasons why Families Can’t Afford America any longer. Student Loans and Medical Debt are a huge issue for Generation X … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Politics/Economics
Tagged 1% Television, 24 Hour Day Care, 24 Hour Day Care Needed, Adjunct Professors, Alexa, America, American, backlash, Benefits, Billions, bills, Bosses, Captialism, Child Care, College, Colleges, Commune, Computers, Consumerism, Contract Work, Crime, Day Care, descrimination, Do What You Love, Downtown Abbey, Economy, education, Employment, English, Feminism, FMLA, Food Stamps, Goodwill, Hand To Mouth, Headstart, History, Huge Income Gap, Huge Wage Gap, Humanities, inflation, Irregular Hours, ITT, Keeping Up with the Jones's, Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Law, Lawyers, Lie, Long Term Careers, Low-Income, MA, Mad Men, Manipulate, Maternity Leave, Maternity Wall, Medicaid, MIddle Class, minimum wage, Mortage, Nanny's Strugle, No Love or No Money, Ozark, Paternity Leave, PhD, Politics, Poor, Pre-K, Precariat, Precarity, Pregnancy, Private Program, Private School, Proletariat, Public, Raising Brooklyn, Ray Bradbury, Real House Wives, Reality TV, Rent, Rich, Robots, Roommates, Roseanne, Science, Second Act Industry Myth, Shift Work, Short Term Jobs, Siri, Social Class, Squeezed, Student Loan Debt, take advantage, Technology, The Middle, The Outsourced Self, The Secret Life of Inequality, The Wire, There Will Come Soft Rains, Trade Schools, Trump University, Uber, Uber Dads, Union, Upstairs Downstairs, We Believe the Children, Wealthy, Why Our Families Can Afford America, Without Predictablity, Working Class, World, worry
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Joan Didion: Conversations and Essays
Joan Didion: Essays and Conversations Edited by G. Friedman, 1984 Introduction: Play It As It Lays shows a preoccupation with existentialism. She examines the nothingness of the void as in Sartre and Camus—particularly The Myth of Sisyphus. Kierkegaard She does … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, History, Literary Criticism, Literature/Pop Culture
Tagged 1967, 60s, abortion, Anna Karenina, Boca Grande, California, Camus, Dark Side, Death, Depression, Despair, disconnect, Eden, Edenic, El Dorado, Ellen G Friedman, empty, Evert McClella, excess, Exiles, Existentialism, Fantasy, Griffin Wolff, Guilt, Heart of Darkness, Height-Asbury, Hemingway, Hester Prynne, High, historical loss, History, Hollywood, imprisoned, indulge, Jennifer Brady, Jim Morrison, Joan Didion: Essays and Conversations Edited by G. Friedman, John Cheever, John Gregory Dunne, Joseph Conrad, Joyce Carol Oates, Keirkgaard, Lacking, Landscape, Lily Knight, Literary Imagination, Loss, Lost Paradise, Madam Bovary, Meaningless, Michelle Kakutani, Mind, Misdirected Dream, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nihilism, no faith, No God, Party, Play It As It Lays, problems, Romantic Degradation, Run River Run, San Fransisco, Severance from the Past, Slouching Toward Bethlehem, society, Southern California, Stuck, Susan Stramburg, Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, the break up an order, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Scarlett Letter, The Self, The Summer of Love, The Wasteland, The White Album, time, Timeless, Tragic Obsolence, Trapped, TS Elliot, usually women, Victor Strandlberg, whose lines are tangled and troubled. In all her work, Willa Cather
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The Fellowship of the Ring
The Fellowship of The Ring I re- read The Fellowship of the Ring. I felt almost as if I had slipped back to Middle Earth, where magic was still alive and common place. Middle Earth, I realized, was Tolkien’s way … Continue reading
Posted in Literature/Pop Culture, Lost
Tagged Aragorn, Banding Together, Battle, Corruption, Dark Age, darkness, Dwarves, Elves, Englightened Beings, Fantasy, Fear, Fiction, Fight, Frued, Good Storytelling, Greed, History, Hobits, Humankind, Humans, Ignorance, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jung, mankind, Men, Middle Earth, Movies, Mythology, Nature, Poverty, Power, Strider, The Fellowship of the Ring, War, Western World
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Namaste
March 21, 2009 Namaste is a greeting used in yoga classes. Alice Vaughn-Goldman used it in her class and I used it in mine at Madison Adult Ed. It means, “I honor the place within you in which the entire … Continue reading
Posted in Literature/Pop Culture, Lost, Movies/TV
Tagged 1974, 1977, Alice Vaughn-Goldman, Ben, Destiny, Dharma Iniative, Faraday, Fate, History, Hurley, I Honor The Place Within You, in Which The Entire Universe Resides, Island, Jack, Juliet, Karma, Kate, Locke, Lost, Love, Namaste, past, Predetermination, Sawyer, Sayid, Season 5, Time Travel, We Are One, Widmore, Yoga
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The Americans
April 17, 2014 Spy Vs Spy Spy vs Spy is a comic strip in Mad Magazine, but it seemed appropriate this week. I’ve been watching The Americans. The Americans is an FX show that began May of 2013. It stars … Continue reading
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Tagged 1853, 1856, 1991, 1999, 2000, 2010, 2014, Agression, Alias, America, Annex, Big Pharmicuticals, Brothers and Sisters, Capitalism, Car Insurance, CIA, Communism, Concessions International, Crimea, Crimean War, Demonstrations, Early 90s, Entitlement, Felicity, FX, Glasnost, Google, Greed, Greg, Health Care, Health Insurance, Heritage, History, J.J. Abrams, Joe Weisburg, Keri Russell, KGB, Mad Magazine, Mathew Ryes, Medicaid, Medical Industries, Memory, Obama, Perestroika, Putin, Religion, Russian, Salmon Bagel, Self-Defense, Socialism, Soviet Union, Spies, Spy Vs Spy, The Americans, USSR, Winter Olympics, Yetsin
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Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me)
Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me) Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions and Harmful Acts by Carol Tarvis and Elliot Aronson came out in 2007. It explores the idea of … Continue reading
Posted in Psychology
Tagged Apology., Better Person, Bigger Person, Blame, booze talking, Carol Tarvis, cognitions, cognitive dissonance, confessions, divoce, DNA, Drunk, Elliot Aronson, Evolve, Fact, falsify evidence, George Bush, historian, History, I was Wrong, Iraq, Let Go, Lillian Hellman, Marriage, Memory, Mistakes Were Made But Not By Me, Naive Realism, Narrative, Opinion, Own Up To Mistakes, Prejudice, Realism, self-justification, source confusion, spiteful, Stressed, system of checks and balances, Tired, Unrealistic Beliefs, vindictive, Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs Bad Decisions and Harmful Acts, wittness memory, WMD, You were Right
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