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Random Readings, Writings, and Rantings
*This is the one-year pandemic scorecard for New Jersey: 21,219 lives lost; 30% of local businesses closed, 56% increase in food insecurity; two million unemployment claims filed. *The pyramid of diversity and power, whether in corporate America or on the college campus, is consistent: greater diversity at the lowest rung (employees/students) than at the managerial/administrative […]
Gratification
In football, it is the bomb, the long pass for a touchdown which brings people out of their seats, a play made much easier to accomplish by multiple rule changes in recent years. In basketball, no longer is the nuanced skill involved in making a contested 15-foot jump shot of interest; the focus is completely […]
LABELS
While I waited for my call to a government office to transition from a dozen prompts to scratchy music to a live human (which is not necessarily redundant), I thought how the word “Labels” could be an acronym for Lost, Anxious, Befuddled, Enervated, Listless … Silliness. For sure, there is a long list of other […]
Lockdown File Cleaning
BOOKS READ Approximately 2018-2020, in order of least recent to most recent China’s Asian Dream: Thorough analysis of China’s goal of making widespread infrastructure investments throughout Central and South Asia and the many political and cultural ramifications of this series of plans. Why They Did It : Criminology and the criminal justice system, decision-making and […]
Demographics: Destiny and Drama
(Data are from various Wall Street Journal articles and Pew Center research publications, as well as government data sets, not all of which agree exactly with each other.) To get your attention, think of these stunning figures. The age which has the greatest number of people is 58 for Caucasians, 29 for Asians, 27 for […]