Backstory new book dropped earlier this week. As described by Mr. Charles P. Pierce:
If there is a less excusable human being walking upright than Ken Starr, I’m hard pressed to think of who it is. https://t.co/wYvbp0xgIW
If there is a less excusable human being walking upright than Ken Starr, head huntsman of the Great Penis Chase of 1998, then I’m hard pressed to think of who it is. Since his salacious moment in the national spotlight, Starr has presided over a disastrous sexual-misconduct scandal and alleged cover-up at Baylor University in Texas. He took a job as part of the former president ’s defense team during Impeachment I, an indication that he was less offended by extramarital foolery than he used to be. And now comes a book by Julie K. Brown of the
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i had a private conversation with fifty of the smartest economists in the world and they told me people like higher wages and often gravitate toward jobs that offer them. it’s a secret though don’t tell anyone. https://t.co/byd6ODoKLW
I remember being taught, starting in around the fifth grade, the ‘good’ effect of the Black Plague was that the resultant shortage of workers gave serfs a chance to bargain their way up the income scale. Maybe this historical nugget only got shared in parochial schools? Or did it get written out of the textbooks, perhaps during the ‘Greed Is Good’ era?