Beverly Gage, in her first book, The Day Wall Street Exploded, recounts the horrific September 16, 1920 bombing across from the Morgan bank. While I read the extraordinary account of this historical event, the worst terrorist bombing in the U.S. until the 1995 Oklahoma attack, a creeping suspicion began to grow that I had not really learned about [...]
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Posted by Kris: Every one of you has a perspective on the world. Right now, too many of those views may tend toward habitual negativsm so I’d like to challenge you to show us a Better World View through your photos, drawings, and pictures accompanied by, perhaps, a few wise words. To offer inspiration, I share the [...]
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Posted by Kris Before the Xerox, there were typewriters and carbon paper. I was an administrative assistant in those days and I cringed when the boss wanted to send copies of the same letter to more than one person. For those of you who can’t imagine, a mistake on the original meant erasing the carbon [...]
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Posted by Kris If you didn’t watch the Grammy’s, you missed one of the best gen-mix events I’ve seen in a very long time. Justin Timberlake with Al Green, Jamie Foxx with Little Anthony, John Mayer and Keith Urban with B.B. King, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss – young talent respecting and blending with veteran [...]
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Posted by Beth I am struggling with Bill O’Reilly’s attack on journalist Helen Thomas. For those of you who didn’t watch Fox’s followup to President Obama’s news conference, Bill O’Reilly called Helen Thomas a “witch of the East” and did an impersonation of her voice that sounded like cackling. What has happened to human respect? [...]
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