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Like to hear press conferences on any subject? How about a Press Release channel? We could have non-profit, hi-tech  &  government press conferences all day long. This might provide new jobs or recycle people with the appropriate skills.

Interesting Image from Bill Claudino.

This is Bill:

before the House Financial Services today. Markopolos was confident and well spoken. Under questioning, he explained more than once what was needed to change operations at the Security Exchange Commission. He was very upbeat as he explained the new type of person needed to supervise financial activities at the SEC. 

They should be gray- haired, even bald, Markopolos said, and from the industrial sector where they made enough money to not want more. 

Doesn’t that sound like a partial description of Bernie Madoff?

Who is this man with the long white beard?

He appears in a number of old Coastside photos, but he’s not been identified. This may be his home; it looks like Moss Beach or Montara. He may be an artist or actor. Can you identify him?

Sociology once seemed to hold many  answers for our society.. Sociology students were respected; their work taken seriously. Today sociology is a word rarely heard—or even spoken.

Which takes me back to 1958 and the publication of the brilliant sociologist C. Wright Mills’ book:

The Power Elite

In the 1960s The Power Elite was a popular college textbook In it, Mills’ described our social strata as it was post WWII, and he does so in an informed and entertaining manner (examining the past & present roles of  business people, celebrities and the rich to the new influence of the military.)

The Power Elite is a stunning book, published in the 1950s, but relevant today.

This is Katie

Katie’s lemon tree in southern Oregon. Already turning yellow…