I can understand Trump’s desire to have the title of Pope. It would confirm at least in his own mind, his infallibility.
Recommend listening to Is the Sun Setting on America’s Financial Empire? | The Ezra Klein Show for an interesting discusssion between Ezra Klein and Kenneth Rogoff, a former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund and a professor of economics at Harvard University on Trump’s tariff policy and its implications for the U.S. dollar and economy. Rogoff is rather blunt about how moronic the current economic path is.
Also suggest a listen to Where in the World Is Trump Taking Us? | TED Explains the World with Ian Bremmer. Bremmer is articulate, candid and very conservant about global affairs, the world economy, geopolitics and U.S. domestic policy. Like a professional referee, he calls them like he sees them.
I believe that our freedoms include the right to die with dignity. If an individual who is cogent and psychologically stable believes that she has lived life well, that her life is complete and that her future will not bring improvement or joy, she should have the right to make the decision to terminate her life. Period.
Joan Temko Anyon
San FranciscoDaniel Kahneman’s Decision: A Debate About Choice in Dying NYT
For those who have not seen it, I hardly recommend viewing Four Seasons, a romantic comedy movie from 1981 starring Alan Alda, Carol Burnett, Jack Weston and Rita Marino. I looked forward to the reprise of Four Seasons, 2025 Netflix version starring Steve Carell, Tina Fey, Will Forte and Kerri Kenney-Silver. However, I found the 2025 version to be dark, depressing and not very funny. The one bright spot in the movie was the acting of Steve Carell, whose character in the movie was most entertaining of the seven characters featured.
Maybe the most irritating commercials that I see on TV come from injury lawyers who probably boast of exorbitant cash settlements they get for their injured clients. Who winds up paying for these exorbitant cash settlements? The insurance companies? Not really. Consumers are on the hook for paying huge cash settlements as our annual auto insurance premiums continue to rise exponentially.
“Changing your mind once about a theory, an investment, or a person, is healthy. Changing your mind twice is not.” Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Strange..reading your post there was a paragraph in the middle of it about the right to die when we want to, which I agreed with, but I was wondering if this was part of your post. Then I thought it must be an ad, but there was no link. Call me confused.
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My apologies. Your confusion was my fault.I should have formatted my post so that it was clear. The paragraph in the middle was a letter to the New York Times from one of its readers about the right to die. About seven years ago, my mother died from complications due to dementia. It was a horrible time for myself and my sister, as we watched a vibrant woman wither away. I remember the terror in my mother’s face as she realized over her last few years, that she had lost control over her mind and her life. I can’t think of any other horrible way to die. I once remarked to my sister, as we were walking down the halls of the assisted living facility, where dozens of patients were suffering from dementia, that I did not believe that God walked down these halls. While I certainly appreciate life, when the time comes, I want to be able to die with dignity and not be a burden to friends and family.
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