Cumulative pay increases since 1999: 29%.
Cumulative inflation since 1999: 44%.
Cumulative increase in employment-based health care premiums: 144% 120%
Source: American Benefits Council.
Since 1999 your health care premiums have risen at a rate five more than four times times faster than your pay, leaving you sinking against inflation. And, remember, inflation has been fairly benign since 1999. [...]
We watched Walter Cronkite.
Walter’s most searing moment in history came when he directly challenged the Pentagon and the Johnson administration over Vietnam. Yet, as Glenn Greenwald writes, much of the discussion of Cronkite will miss a key and pointed criticism over the state of journalism today.
We read or hear that Cronkite called the Vietnam War [...]
One way to avoid being a lame duck, Sarah, is simply not to have proclaimed yourself one by announcing your intent not to run again. Sometimes, influence is gained by keeping people guessing.
But, having said that, well, good riddance.
The cell phone has spawned a new disease: Antisocial Attention Span (AAS). But, then I don’t get texting, especially to someone other than the one you’re with.
On Facebook, MySpace, Linked In, are we coming to know people more by their syntax than their faces? Renee Gleeson takes three minutes on this topic. Read the comments [...]
From out of right field, perhaps below the bleachers, comes the “revelation” in the fake (sic) Federal Register that President Obama has signed an executive order for $20.3 million in assistance to Palestinian “immigrants,” including those with ties to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization.
The facts are something else, not surprisingly. The order by President Obama [...]
