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Wednesday, April 09, 2003 |
Whew, what busy week it's been. We had guests -- my father- and brother-in-law -- in from out of town. One of the fun things about living in the Bay Area is visitors, and how you get to show them around. In the last week we've made several trips to Point Reyes, several to Tilden Park in the hills behind us, and more. Yesterday we went to the Scharffen Berger chocolate factory tour, then walked the suspension bridge across I-80 in Berkeley, then drove around San Francisco and ended up at Pier 39. Took a beautiful trip on the Bay on the Blue and Gold cruise, then had a classic San Francisco dinner at Tadich (my second trip this week, as I went with my old pal Andy on Saturday night). Finished yesterday off with a Giants baseball game! What a full day.
And to make it better tonight I'm going to see Bruce Springsteen in Sacramento with Blair...
8:43:51 AM Permalink
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What they should teach in public schools.
Wow. Am amazing paragrpah from Phil Greenspun:
With the increasing income disparity in the United States, it is very unlikely that a middle- or lower-class kid will ever become wealthy enough to influence politics. So it is irrelevant what he or she thinks is a fair, just, or optimum law or philosophy of life. We should teach middle class kids to obey authority mindlessly because that's what they'll have to do anyway.
[philg News]
There's a lot of truth there. With the Republican attack on inheritance taxes, this disparity is going. Wealth, and thus political influence, in America is going to become more entrenched. Of course, obeying authority mindlessly is what they want out of us anyway.
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