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If I can make a modest contribution to the ongoing vibecession discussion. I make just over the median salary for one US worker, though my spouse makes considerably more. I got a 2.5% raise this fiscal year, right in line with the increase in my company's government reimbursement rate,

Because it does! This is a sucky way to run an economy! This is what people with MBAs are doing to us every day at work and every day as we go through our lives. We don't have less money, inflation is better than a few years ago, but I hate being part of the economy.

If I can make a modest contribution to the ongoing vibecession discussion. I make just over the median salary for one US worker, though my spouse makes considerably more. I got a 2.5% raise this fiscal year, right in line with the increase in my company's government reimbursement rate,

This is not making my life worse in a financial sense, though it is absolutely making my life worse. It is making the lives of the people my organization serves worse.

If I can make a modest contribution to the ongoing vibecession discussion. I make just over the median salary for one US worker, though my spouse makes considerably more. I got a 2.5% raise this fiscal year, right in line with the increase in my company's government reimbursement rate,

BUT my employer just rolled out a new initiative that will significantly increase my work load, replace work I want to do and work that those we serve find meaningful with work that I do not want to do and that those we serve do not actually need or want.

If I can make a modest contribution to the ongoing vibecession discussion. I make just over the median salary for one US worker, though my spouse makes considerably more. I got a 2.5% raise this fiscal year, right in line with the increase in my company's government reimbursement rate,

What did Sherlock Holmes say to Doctor Watson when they say down to dinner?

What did Sherlock Holmes say to Doctor Watson when he went bankrupt?

What did Sherlock Holmes say to Doctor Watson when they say down to dinner?

It seems likely to me, given the trajectory of his career into politics and then as a lobbyist, that Hastert sought power and money in order to avoid the consequences he had stored up for himself for abusing the kids in his care as a teacher and coach.

So I graduated from Wheaton, was there when they inaugurated the "J. Dennis Hastert Center" and I often think about what another Wheaton alumni, David Iglesias told us in chapel after he was fired as the US Attorney in NM for refusing to bring fake cases against Democrats.

It seems likely to me, given the trajectory of his career into politics and then as a lobbyist, that Hastert sought power and money in order to avoid the consequences he had stored up for himself for abusing the kids in his care as a teacher and coach.

Sometimes i think about how no one in the northern US in the nineties knew what an avocado was.

Just making this prediction now so you all know I called it: in 2050, the top name for baby girls in the US will be “Doris.”

I very much doubt whether American evangelicalism has the capacity to course correct at this point. As trumpism alternately decays and regroups over the next decade or more, many Christians are just going to check out of evangelicalism, and Christianity overall.

I am encouraged by developments within mainline US Protestantism, but we have a long way to go to a. fully repent of our own culpability for the harm us govt and society has done, and b. rediscover a gospel that is good news for the oppressed and all people.

I very much doubt whether American evangelicalism has the capacity to course correct at this point. As trumpism alternately decays and regroups over the next decade or more, many Christians are just going to check out of evangelicalism, and Christianity overall.

Many evangelical institutions and churches will just close. Some evangelicals and institutions will be able to make common cause with more mainline Christians but this will certainly be a small minority.

I was sitting in the kitchen dipping my pretzel crisps into store brand Nutella and my 9 year old saw and said “dad, you have the best ideas.”

Listen this whole Great Lakes thing has a lot of people on edge, so I think it’s a good time to remind everyone that I’ve created an acronym that makes it both easy and fun to remember the names of all 11 finger lakes: CHOCS CHOCKS.

Is it a good sign for the economy when your local pizza place starts running a “recession special” with 1 pizza, 12 garlic knots, and 2 liter bottle of Pepsi?

Water quality. The Hudson River was full of chemical and human waste, all the way north of Albany even. It’s not perfect notes but is so much cleaner.

I reiterate my argument that a society that values money above craft will have nothing worth owning or using. Government can help, but not solve, the problem by establishing a maximum wealth limit so that private capital is limited in its ability to ruin nice things.