A popular Democrat becomes President during one of the worst economic downturns

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I’m reading The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression. While parallels with pre-1950s America are always tenuious, here’s a synopsis

A popular Democrat becomes President during one of the worst economic downturns in our nation’s history. He drives through some of the most dramatic legislation ever seen and creating departments compensating farmers to not bring food to market. US economy sputters throughout his term, waiting until the end of a yet to be fought war to recover.

Let’s hope tomorrows inauguration marks the beginning of America 3.0, not New Deal 2.0.

Five For Friday

Months ago, Rick Mahn asked me to list 5 things I was thankful for. Friday seems like an appropriate day to respond:

  1. Red Stag‘s Mac & Cheese for lunch.
  2. Re-arranging my office making both a cozy reading corner and a usable coffee-making corner. (Finally)
  3. Ruby.1
  4. You.
  5. Checking one more thing off the To-Do list calendar.

1. There’s a longer post in here about being productive in 2 hours. Ruby is the second language I’ve written in (the first was RealBasic, years ago) where I can solve a problem and start a new problem in the course of just 2 hours. Add a few well structured Google searches and the number of solved problems increases dramatically. Happiness.