This and That

Fix Social Security
My long-ago AP desk editor, Rich Buck, wrote a Seattle Times op-ed on the painfully obvious solution to making social security solvent. Thanks Rich, for saying what we all should have been thinking... except maybe for the folks in the c-suite, who aren't pulling their weight... again.

Muse Redux
I had completely forgotten my first missive to my muse, four years ago. I was just reminded of it by an admiring friend. She didn’t interrupt my sleep back in the day.
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That was a mistake anyone could make
Optional add on: Making mistakes just shows you’re perfectly good at being human.](I’m trying to stop beating myself up when in error)
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Prediction is very difficult

especially about the future.
“We’ll never have anything like a Star Trek Communicator,” said the MIT prof in 1971. I wonder if he thinks about it when asking Siri to call someone. Or, never say never.