Saturday, May 7, 2022
I’m not sure if it is merely an olfactory failure, but many people of wealth and status seem to believe that their excrement is odorless. Or, in the presence of smelly feces, deny its provenance. This came to mind reading, “Amazon Abruptly Fires Senior Managers Tied to Unionized Warehouse”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/
Rather than re-examine corporate policies that have generated labor discontent in so many of its locations, Amazon’s top brass, when not flying into space, punish those responsible for implementing those policies.
Get the air freshener.
I'm not the first one to observe that the Law School Admissions Test, law school courses and bar examinations (often state specific) may be independent of the practice of law. This came to mind when I read: "A committee within the American Bar Association recommended late last month that law schools eliminate the requirement of 'a valid and reliable admission test' as part of their admission process."
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/
However, I am not taken aback by the presence of these hurdles to a career in the law. Lawyers in so many instances are our agents in seeking justice and/or fairness (not always in synch). Additionally, many legislators are lawyers, although fewer than I would have guessed; "39 percent of the members of Congress have law degrees compared to only 17 percent of state lawmakers." https://www.ncsl.org/
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/
Rather than re-examine corporate policies that have generated labor discontent in so many of its locations, Amazon’s top brass, when not flying into space, punish those responsible for implementing those policies.
Get the air freshener.
. . .
I'm not the first one to observe that the Law School Admissions Test, law school courses and bar examinations (often state specific) may be independent of the practice of law. This came to mind when I read: "A committee within the American Bar Association recommended late last month that law schools eliminate the requirement of 'a valid and reliable admission test' as part of their admission process."
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/
However, I am not taken aback by the presence of these hurdles to a career in the law. Lawyers in so many instances are our agents in seeking justice and/or fairness (not always in synch). Additionally, many legislators are lawyers, although fewer than I would have guessed; "39 percent of the members of Congress have law degrees compared to only 17 percent of state lawmakers." https://www.ncsl.org/
It should not be easy to be put in a position to influence or even control another person’s property, security or freedom. When I was interviewed by the New York Law Journal shortly after I graduated law school, I said “If it were up to me, you couldn’t go to law school until you’re 35 years old.” While none of the tests or courses may be of precise practical or predictive value, together they constitute an obstacle course that may hone one for success, crudely parallel to miniature golf vs. an 18 hole round.
Sunday, May 8, 2022
"How to Pray to a God You Don’t Believe In" has an interesting observation by a professor of philosophy and law.
Our family recently switched synagogues. At the old one, the service
was mostly in Hebrew, and I don’t speak much Hebrew. I know how to say
all the prayers; I just don’t know what most of them mean. So at
synagogue, I would sing along and let the words wash over me. I liked
that.
At the new synagogue, we sing a lot of the same songs and say a lot of the same prayers. But we say many more of them in English. And I find that almost intolerable. It turns out, I like my religion inscrutable.
At the new synagogue, we sing a lot of the same songs and say a lot of the same prayers. But we say many more of them in English. And I find that almost intolerable. It turns out, I like my religion inscrutable.
. . .
"Using the average annual net salary of workers in cities around the world," a British firm compared the affordability of housing from 2017 to 2021. "345 cities with available historic data were considered."
A majority of cities became less affordable, wages not rising as fast as the cost of real estate. https://www.
Worst cases for purchasers were found in the good old U.S.A. The first 10 cities that squeezed the average worker hardest were American, predominantly Southern, Southeastern and Western, none Northeastern.
Renters had it a little bit easier. Almost exactly half of the cities became less affordable for renters; renters faced the greatest economic pressure in what was once labelled the Third World (is there a replacement term?).
"Surprisingly, San Francisco tops our list of the U.S. cities that have
become more affordable in recent years for a local on an average monthly
salary to rent. Between 2017 and 2021, the percentage takeup of rent to
salary decreased by 45%. This is due to the average monthly rent
dropping by $402 and average monthly salary increasing by $3,890 in that
time frame."
Monday, May 9, 2022
Is this a surprise? "[G]irls with a Jewish upbringing have two distinct postsecondary patterns compared to girls with a non-Jewish upbringing, even after controlling for social origins: (1) they are 23 percentage points more likely to graduate college, and (2) they graduate from much more selective colleges." https was://journals.sagepub.com/
But, how many of them married doctors?
Tuesday, May 10, 2022
Stories sometimes appear on NYTimes.com days before they show up in print. In the interim, they may change. I'm interested in tracking the progress of "How Ben Got His Penis," a detailed article on-line this morning.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/
Not only are the headline and the subject matter unusual for the publication informally called the Gray Lady (see https://ask.metafilter.com/
King Missile’s college-radio standard, 'Detachable Penis,'” amused me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
. . .
Michael Ratner joined me for lunch at Plum Vietnamese Restaurant, 210 West 94th Street, a cozy place in a quiet spot just off a busy strip of Broadway. According to where you sit in the open, high-ceilinged space, the interior appears either interesting -- exposed brick, white painted brick, big arched window facing the street -- or dull -- blah paint job, bare walls. There are eight two-tops with a butcher block surface.
We shared chive pancakes, two spongy 3" squares, half inch thick, that are very green, tasty, but otherwise hard to describe ($9) and spring rolls ($9 for four pieces). Each of these items was accompanied by
Nước chấm, a sweet and sour dipping sauce.
I then had a very good grilled marinated sliced beef Banh mi, with pickled carrots, cucumbers, cilantro and spicy mayonnaise, on a toasted, narrow 8" baguette ($14). Michael had a “Super Bowl” of pho, the soup that is the culinary common denominator of Vietnam ($18). The bowl of beef broth had beef eye round, smoked brisket and grilled steak along with thin rice noodles, beansprouts, scallions, onion, jalapenos and lime wedge. He enjoyed it, as presumably anybody in his right mind would.
This little joint deserves your patronage.
Wednesday, May 11, 2022
Thursday, May 12, 2002
"Business Casual, right?"
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