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This old house was only a few blocks from the state Capitol in Madison,
Wisconsin. All the neighborhood cats lived in the basement during the
winter. The house has long since been torn down, but in 1972 there were
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In the 21st century I am just as opinionated as ever,
and I now have an outlet. I shall pontificate here about anything
that catches my fancy; I hope I will not make too great a fool
of myself. You may comment yea or nay about anything on the
site; I may quote you here, or I may not. Send brickbats etc.
to: dmclarke78@icloud.com.
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January 5, 2017Thomas SowellYesterday the Wall Street Journal published an editorial marking the conservative economist's retirement at age 87 from writing a column, after nearly 40 years. This morning I wrote to the WSJ:
I don’t know where Thomas Sowell’s column has been syndicated, because I haven’t seen it for many years, but the last time I saw it he was saying that people who work in retail should be satisfied with low wages, because “half of them are college kids between semesters or housewives earning pin money.” I’ve been working in a big-box bookstore for nearly 20 years, because I enjoy waiting on customers who are buying books. Fortunately my wife made more money than I did during our working years, but I have known people who supported families in retail, sometimes with two and even three jobs.
Would it be all right with Sowell if some people enjoy working in retail? The reason we never know what’s going to happen next is that our politicians and intellectuals are always writing people off: Mitt Romney and his 47%, Hillary and her basket of deplorables, Sowell and the other half... The irony of course is that I know who Sowell is, I know that we have some of his books in stock and what shelf they are on: would he and his publisher rather have me selling his books or some badly-educated kid who’s never heard of anybody?
Sowell should decide whether he is an economist or a philosopher. But it’s probably too late.