Tuesday, December 26, 2017

On The First Day Of Christmas



- that chimes with the family's-home theme, but JD suggests this alternative:

Sunday, December 24, 2017

MUSIC: JD's Third Christmas Collection

Nollaig Chridheil gu h-uile agus Dia a 'beannachadh
sìth air an talamh agus deagh rùn dha na fir uile *













* A wonderful Christmas and God bless you
   Peace on earth and goodwill for all men

Sunday, December 17, 2017

Thought for the day: inequality


http://uk.businessinsider.com/economist-intelligence-unit-downgrades-united-states-to-flawed-democracy-2017-1?r=US&IR=T







"Scheidel’s book* shows that historically, the only way high inequality has been flattened has been through catastrophe: disease, famine, world war, societal collapse or communist revolution."

- Quoted in "Evonomics": http://evonomics.com/inequality-predicts-homicide-rates-better-variable/

Is there another way?.

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*Walter Scheidel, "The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century", Princeton, January 2017

https://press.princeton.edu/titles/10921.html