I think that unregulated capitalism is really survival of the fittest applied to wealth. Left unchecked, as it mostly is today, pure capitalism leads to monopolies that destroy any real free market.
I am encouraged by Elizabeth Warren’s Accountable Capitalism Act even if I am skeptical it will result in real legislation. This topic needs to be addressed because of this:
But in the 1980s a new idea quickly took hold: American corporations should focus only on maximizing returns to their shareholders. That had a seismic impact on the American economy. In the early 1980s, America’s biggest companies dedicated less than half of their profits to shareholders and reinvested the rest in the company. But over the last decade, big American companies have dedicated 93% of earnings to shareholders - redirecting trillions of dollars that could have gone to workers or long-term investments. The result is that booming corporate profits and rising worker productivity have not led to rising wages.
The problem is, I have two quarterbacks (Cousins & Wentz) of two mediocre teams. That one of those teams is the defending Super Bowl champs and the other went to the NFC championship last year is the shocker.
Fr. Richard Rohr:
“The churches are not doing their job,” he said. “That we can create such a high amount of angry, dualistic people, who see everything in terms of winning and losing [means] Christianity has not handed on its heritage. When you don’t have a real God, your nation and your politics, of course, become your god.”
Source: Rohr: Church needs an ‘awakening of the soul’ - National Catholic Reporter
If you want to learn more about discerning real or fake information or how such discernment can become habit, read Mike Caulfield’s writing of his studies on the topic.
Dear world. I am tired of completing online surveys. Repeat after me. Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should do it.
It’s not the Baseball Writers Association that elected Lee Smith to the Hall of Fame nor was it the baseball writers who elected Jack Morris to the Hall of Fame. Draw your own conclusions.
Smith, Baines elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
Smith, 61, retired after the 1997 season with more saves than any player before him. His saves still rank third all-time behind Mariano Rivera and Trevor Hoffman. A seven-time All-Star and three-time Rolaids Relief Man Award winner, Smith led his league in saves four times, including a career-best 47 in 1991, and had 30-plus saves in 10 of his 18 seasons with the Cubs, Red Sox, Cardinals, Yankees, Orioles, Angels, Reds and Expos.
Lee Smith more or less ascended to the closer role after Bruce Sutter went to the Cardinals, and was the Cubs closer through my high school years. He was a classic power pitcher who occasionally would grove a fastball for a home run. Sutter is in the Hall of Fame and I think it’s right that Smith joins him.
Don’t let the sunshine fool you. Baby it’s cold outside.
A REPLY TO RICHARD ROHR ON THE COSMIC CHRIST – Omega Center Ilia Delio,
Christ is the communion of divine personal love expressed in every created form of reality—every star, leaf, bird, fish, tree, rabbit and every human person. Everything is christified because everything expresses divine love incarnate. However, Jesus Christ is the “thisness” of God (‘God is like this and this is God’) so what Jesus is by nature everything else is by grace (divine love). We are not God but every single person is born out of the love of God, expresses this love in his/her unique personal form and has the capacity to be united with God. It is for this reason that the Franciscan theologian Bonaventure described the mystery of Jesus Christ as a coincidence of opposites. Because Jesus _is _the Christ, every human is already reconciled with every other human in the mystery of divine so that Christ is more than Jesus alone; Christ is the whole reality bound in a union of love.
Source: A REPLY TO RICHARD ROHR ON THE COSMIC CHRIST – Omega Center
A REPLY TO RICHARD ROHR ON THE COSMIC CHRIST – Omega Center Ilia Delio,
When we say, “Jesus is the Christ,” we are saying that the humanity of Jesus is one with divinity, the “mystery hidden from the beginning of the world.” There is a particularity here, a haecceitas (or thisness) that cannot be overlooked. Jesus _is _the Christ which means all that God is, is given to us in Jesus, rendering a new understanding of God as relational, self-communicative, self-emptying.
Source: A REPLY TO RICHARD ROHR ON THE COSMIC CHRIST – Omega Center
Lotus Notes still lives? Who are the poor folks still stuck with it?
I am watching Chromeunboxed’s review of the Google Pixel Slate. The Slates’s support for mice and trackpads may be the most compelling advantage it has over the iPad. For desktop use, I would pair it up with a standard Bluetooth mouse and keyboard. I don’t often type with a keyboard on my lap. If I were to attend a meeting or conference I rather use a stylus and hand write notes.
I am having problems at the moment using OneNote on my iPad Pro, so have reverted to my backup Surface 3 and OneNote. What I had not appreciated up to now is how much better it is to write on the iPad Pro with the Apple Pencil than on the Surface 3 and Surface Pen. I am finding writing it frustratingly slow to write on the Surface 3, and I would not have said that before having used the iPad Pro/Pencil for a year.
I recently built my own Federated Wiki server and have been having a lot fun adding content to it since. I’ve found that for me it is the best way to maintain a “Now” page of things I am currently working on or researching.
As a topic comes up, I got to the Now page and create a wiki link to the topic, which I then click to create a new page to which I start adding content.
What I need to determine is what to do with the topics that I complete. I think the ideal solution is a plugin that automatically generates an index of all pages in my wiki so that even when I remove the wiki link in the Now page, a link to the page remains somewhere so that it can be found later. I could manually build an index, but in this day and age I would think an automated approach would be possible and best.
I am looking for a replacement of Google Inbox. I switched to Spark on iOS, but I have not yet found the perfect solution for Android. My key requirement is the ability to quickly archive unread mail.
Update regarding the freeze/resumption issue I have been having ever since the Wear OS H update was installed on my watch. I’ve turned off always on display and since doing that the symptom has not appeared.
Another thing to note, I started this blog while I was out of the country, in Bermuda for the first time.
Milestone Achieved
Something momentus has happened. If you click On This Day up above you will see posts that were not written today but on this day, last year, when I flipped the bit and started blogging mostly here rather than over there.
I am excited to have On This Day finally fulfill its purpose.
I’ve continued to see the problem with my Fossil Q Explorist smartwatch that appeared after installing the H update to Android Wear. Today I found a recommendation to turn off Mobile Battery Saver and so far since I have done that I have not seen the problem.
Update: Alas, turning off Mobile Battery Saver wasn’t the fix, the problem reoccurred. Next step is to turn off the always on display. I’ve also sent a message to Fossil to see if they can tell me how to downgrade.