Ahoy the Geezer!
As I looked ahead to my 48th year on this earth as of May, 2006, I took to the road on my Fisher Nirvana 21-speed bike, my pride and joy. It was the first truly NICE day we’ve had in Worcester since May Street was cleaned (I always mark the beginning of the bike riding season by the cleanliness of Worcester’s streets). I’m always glad to see the DEADLY OF SAND OF DOOM removed so that I can appear intrepid on my two-wheeler.
I am not intrepid anymore, really. In December of 1997 (my first year of teaching) I slipped on a sidewalk going past Hahnemann Hospital on Lincoln St. in Worcester, broke my hip and pelvis, and spent 5 weeks in traction. On my return to school, I found my “students” had been magically transformed into actual slugs, lolling about in pools of adolescent mucus. I also found that my […]
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Click To Vote For Uncle Billy’s Smokehouse for Album of the Year and More for the 2006 Worcester Music Awards….
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Skulltoboggan Nominated in The Pulse Magazine!
Thanks to all who voted us in as a nominee for this years Best Metal Act in The Pulse Magazine ( http://www.thepulsemag.com/ ). Please visit the link included and vote in all categories. There are man…
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Skulltoboggan Captures Two WoMag Awards
Skulltoboggan would like to thank all of you that voted for us in this years Worcester Magazine Turtle Boy Music Awards ( http://www.worcestermag.com/archives/2006/03-09-06/pm_nightlife.html ). Becaus…
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Income Inequality, Education, and Work
Paul Krugman (at http://uberdionysus.livejournal.com/298254.html)discussing income inequality as it is understood by our new Federal Reserve Board Chairman Bernanke, says “income at the 99th percentile rose 87 percent; income at the 99.9th percentile rose 181 percent; and income at the 99.99th percentile rose 497 percent. No, that’s not a misprint.Just to give you a sense of who we’re talking about: the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center estimates that this year the 99th percentile will correspond to an income of $402,306, and the 99.9th percentile to an income of $1,672,726.The center doesn’t give a number for the 99.99th percentile, but it’s probably well over $6 million a year.
Why would someone as smart and well informed as Mr. Bernanke get the nature of growing inequality wrong?Because the fallacy he fell into tends to dominate polite discussion about income trends, not because it’s true, but because it’s comforting.”
I used to work for an agency that […]
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