It’s Their Fault

Let’s have a look at the budget of someone (you!) who is just starting out in big NYC with an independent career plan. We’ll say you start out making $26,004 per year as a freelancer of some sort (starting a business, an artist, working an hourly side job, etc.) and live in Brooklyn. [...]

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Distraction… did you ever notice how it is similar to death? And not just because it starts with a “D.” It also contains an “a”! Just like: danger, damnation, and danceaholic!
According to this article,
Attention is the golden key to the mystery of human consciousness; it might one day tell us how we [...]

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Kristof offers a chance at redemption.
Boomers just may be remembered more for what they did in their 60s than for what they did in the Sixties.

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A new study…
A recent University of Chicago sociology study compared the results of happiness surveys going back more than 30 years and found that boomers have never been happy. In 2004, 28 percent of respondents born in 1950 considered themselves “very happy,” compared with 40.2 percent of those born in 1935. Back in 1972, [...]

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Judith Rosen says: of course.
…almost half of America’s youngest workers believe the nation’s best days may have come and gone
…Between the bookends of the Roosevelt and Reagan administrations, Americans, their employers, and government entered into an implied agreement that afforded citizens a basic level of economic security if they worked hard and took responsibility for [...]

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Today the Wall Street Journal takes a just-in-the-nick-of-time look at one of the Boomers’ few positive contributions to the country: they spawned a generation of ruthlessly meticulous folders.
Phil Walmsley, 24, of Vancouver, still uses the plastic folding board he stealthily slipped into his backpack on his last day of work at Club Monaco five years [...]

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Those ancestral themes past which so many generations have slept like sea-going winds over pastures - the broil of politics, clangorous industry, social banalities (softened by the solicitude of untiring and anxious love) -  can be properly vivified only with felicitousness in the choice and exquisiteness in the collocation of words.
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A flurry of posts today about connections to go along with last week’s post.
From lhote:
…on a basic level, when someone gets hooked up for a job, both egalitarianism and efficiency are damaged. The way it’s supposed to work is, if you are a superior candidate, you get the job– and your hard work/talent are rewarded. [...]

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I feel bad mentioning this rather unfair takedown of Millennials by a fairly out-of-it college professor, but because of this blog topic, I must…

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Post-Boomer election? McCain doesn’t want that. Michael Scherer discusses the Boomer politics exemplified in McCain’s new ad in Swampland, and Andrew Sullivan has reactions.
Scherer:
In some ways, this is a predictable theme. Every presidential election since Vietnam has, in some ways, been a retread of the 1960s culture war.
[McCain's] new ad tries [...]

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