LITERARY INSIGHT from PRESENT & PAST " WHATWE’RE READING “Forty years ago, we were able to make great shirts here, great jeans here, sold at a price that made sense to mainstream consumers... We’ve lost that capability in 40 years? We can’t make a flannel shirt in America? I’m not going to accept that answer.” The Annals of Flannel New York Times
The sanctimonious, the puritans of all stripes, and the killjoys in general raise the issue annually. Knock it off. Christmas has been commercialized since year one of the “Current Era.” Blame it on the Three Kings. They started the gift-giving right in the manger. Keep Christmas Commercialized! P.J. O’Rourke in The Daily Beast The genius of A Charlie Brown Christmas was the way it channeled the looming sadness and anxiety that come with the holidays — and the way its timeless, best-selling soundtrack by the Vince Guaraldi Trio tapped into that narrative seamlessly, with muted, melancholic jazz. ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ at 50: The Making of a Classic Soundtrack Rolling Stone “When it’s nice ploughing, it’s like it’s painted on. You see it afterwards and it’s like...” He searched for the word that might capture the particular kind of aesthetic pleasure and profound satisfaction that comes from something delicate and precise being wrought from a clunking piece of machinery attached to a 12-tonne tractor with wheels the size of boulders. “Aaah.” Field of dreams: heartbreak and heroics at theWorld Ploughing Championships The Guardian Little regional quirks such as lawn geese are like the scent of home – you have to leave and come back to notice them. Nothing Says Midwest Like a Well-Dressed Porch Goose The Atlantic
For decades, the DoD’s leaders and accountants have been perpetrating a gigantic, unconstitutional accounting fraud, deliberately cooking the books to mislead the Congress and drive the DoD’s budgets ever higher, regardless of military necessity. Exclusive: The Pentagon’s Massive Accounting Fraud Exposed The Nation How an obscure legal document turned New York’s court system into a debt-collection machine that’s chewing up small businesses across America. And government officials are enabling the whole scheme. Sign Here to Lose Everything Bloomberg Businessweek
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