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This isn't an advice column in the normal sense, but that hasn't stopped a steady torrent of readers from writing to me as if it were. So today, and occasionally in the future, I will treat it as one. Here are some of the recent questions I have received:
QCan an employer fire me without a good reason during the probationary period?
A No. The word "probation" actually means an employer has a period to assess an employee to decide whether to keep them. The courts have interpreted that to mean that an employer has to provide an employee with a fair opportunity to demonstrate that they can do the job, provide them some feedback and measure them against reasonable standards.
If a probationary employee is fired without cause or without being given reasonable opportunity to demonstrate their ability to do the job, they will be entitled to wrongful dismissal damages.
To have the right to fire an employee without notice, termination pay or other damages, without cause, the employer must clearly say so in an employment contract. Even then, the probation should not be longer than the time provided in the employment standards legislation – three months in most provinces – or the court will consider that contract invalid.
If an employer wishes to avoid liability for wrongful dismissal, at any stage in the employment relationship, there is no substitute for such a contract.
QI have sued for wrongful dismissal and my employer offered me my job back. Must I return?
A Unless something occurred (beyond being fired) that makes it objectively unreasonable for you to accept the offer of reinstatement, such as objectively acrimonious relationships, you must go back to work. If you don't, you will lose any damages beyond the date you refused to return. Some employers offer reinstatement hoping the employee will refuse to return, thereby forfeiting any prospect of a successful wrongful dismissal case.
Realistically, once an employee is fired, the employment relationship is forever soiled. But the courts contend it is best for employees to work to mitigate their damages while looking for other employment as long as the conditions are not untenable.
You are still entitled to severance pay until the offer of re-employment.
QMy employer has called me to a meeting to conduct an internal investigation. I believe they wish to dismiss me. Am I entitled to bring a lawyer?
A You have no right to bring a lawyer to any internal meeting with management. And while some employers permit such representation, I advise against it. During the employment relationship, matters should be dealt with directly between employers and employees.
Similarly, I recommend against employers having counsel at investigation meetings. This action may strike a court as oppressive, particularly if the employee is not represented. As well, it will make your lawyer a witness, in the same way as everyone else at the meeting, depending on what is alleged in the action.
QI have enjoyed for years the tax and other advantages of being an independent contractor, but the company I work for wishes now to treat me as an employee. This will have a significant impact on my take-home income. What recourse do I have?
A Most "independent contractors" in my experience are employees even if they have signed agreements with their "principal" stating otherwise. If you work regularly for the same company, with relatively regular hours, reporting to someone, appearing to the outside world as an employee, integrated into its organization and using its equipment, you are an employee at law. If you are legally an employee, you should be grateful you and your employer got away with it as long as you have.
If, on the other hand, you have several clients, come and go as you please, have irregular income, disappear for weeks or months at a time and use your own equipment to perform your functions, you are an independent contractor.
In between, well, you need legal advice.
QWe put "other" on an employee's Record of Employment after he resigned, to assist him in getting EI. Now, he is suing for wrongful dismissal, claiming he was fired. How fatal was that error?
A You might note that the bottom of the form reminds you it is a statutory offence to make a false entry. You are deemed to be telling the truth. There have been several cases where courts and adjudicators have resolved credibility issues by noting what the employer stated on the form before being sued.
Howard Levitt is senior partner of Levitt LLP (levittllp.ca), employment and labour lawyers. He practises employment law in eight provinces and is author of The Law of Hiring in Canada.


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When times are tough for clients and prospects, advisors need to take a new approach, according to grief consultant Amy Florian, who spoke on the second day of the Raymond James Women's Symposium (RJF), taking place this week and drawing about 200 advisors and other guests in St. Petersburg, Fla.
"I first worked with advisor who didn't know how to handle grief," said Florian, who lost her husband at age 25 shortly after the birth of their son. "Then, I met another advisor who made me feel comfortable, who made me feel like a person, not a number in a portfolio. Guess which one I went with?" she asked.
Some 70% of widows switch advisors after their husband's death, said the CEO of Corgenius, a communications consulting firm who works with clients like Boulder, Co.-based advisor Sacha Millstone of Raymond James.
The key to keeping their business, Florian says, is to consider "how good you are at grief support … and that means you'll have client for life."
Plus, widows, family members and friends talk to each other and often with members of their grief support groups. "They share info on who a does great job. You won't have to ask for referrals," she explained. "They will come to you," if you take a more empathetic and holistic approach with those coping with loss.
In general, the loss of a spouse, a divorce and other abrupt changes related to "a break in an attachment" lead to grief, according to the expert. And in all these situations, it's important for advisors to not only to be polite but also to be reassuring and flexible.
The Right Approach
"Ask good questions and really, listen," the consultant stressed.
By good questions, she means "invitational questions" that open the door to thoughtful discussions and acknowledgement of the emotional turmoil the client or prospect is experiencing.
A question like, "What do you wish people knew about what you are going through right now?" can go a long way, according to Florian. Or an advisor can ask what kind of a day the person is having, for instance.
By genuinely helping people, you generally help your business, the consultant says. "Remember, emotions are more volatile than the stock market, and grief is a roller coaster," she said.
While creating a bond, be sure not to say "I know how you feel," because the grieving process is different for everyone.
Gently probe a widow's top concerns and fears.
"Get their fears out on the table … and tell the client that you are here to help them move into new future, which will include great peace, joy and satisfaction," Florian added.
"People are looking for a relationship with their advisor. A person who understands their lives gets their business," she noted, and is more likely to keep it.
Check out On Death and Dying, and Advisors by Jamie Green on ThinkAdvisor.

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Bama Fan Goes After OU Student at Sugar Bowl
College football has a tendency to make people a little rowdy, and this Alabama fan just further proved that.
As a result of the shocking Sugar Bowl between Alabama and Oklahoma, fans everywhere were a little confused and crazy...probably pretty intoxicated too. And it seems to never fail that someone gets in a fight with someone supporting the opposing team at the game.
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Another incredible full moon rising over the ocean and Nubble Lighthouse.
Tag: Waterfront
The Tugs After The Storm
One of the most memorable sunsets I've ever witnessed after powerful thunderstorms cleared out of the area – fully illuminating the brick buildings of Bow Street and creating a rainbow over the Memorial Bridge.
Full Moon Over The Tugboats
These are a few of my favorite things….. I finally made it out to capture a shot that I have envisioned for at least the past year! With a newborn at home and a new sleep schedule, I finally made it out in time to catch the sunrise and the setting moon over the tugboats! Hope you enjoy
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Daybreak Over The South End
A glimpse of Portsmouth's storied South End under the day's first light.
A South End Moment | At Sunrise
A South End Moment | At Sunrise
Early morning light kisses the face of several historic buildings that line the South End waterfront in Portsmouth, NH. The glass-like waters ensure a calmness in the scene.
Buoy & Boat | Portsmouth Waterfront
Buoy & Boat | Portsmouth Waterfront
Quite possibly my favorite boat along the Portsmouth, NH waterfront. This boat along with a red skiff sat at rest on an early winter morning at high tide just after sunrise. The stillness of the water and the colors of the elements make this one of my favorite images of the year.
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New signing: MOUNTAINS AMONG US!
North Carolina based Avant/Doom-gaze band MOUNTAINS AMONG US have inked a deal with ARGONAUTA Records. Formed in 2007 by Brandon Helms (of FROM OCEANS TO AUTUMN fame) the band released their first full length "True North" in 2008 followed by the second album "Believer" in 2010 .After working on some experimental recordings/ep's from 2011-2012, they began writing on their first full length in over four years, described by the band as their heaviest, most ambitious work to date. Their blackened avant-garde style is constantly morphing into new territory while experimenting in different sounds, which will appeal to fans of EARTH, THIS WILL DESTROY YOU, NADJA and DEAFHEAVEN. "Commission the Twelve" will be out in June 2014 in noble DigiSleeve CD limited edition.


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Malnutrition Threatens Displaced Children In CAR
In parts of Central African Republic, people who fled fighting have now been stranded for months, unable to return home. Aid workers are seeing many cases of malnutrition, especially in children. WFP is distributing special nutritional products designed specifically to keep malnutrition at bay and nutritionists explain to mothers how to cook and prepare these products.


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Web-programming should really optimized for vsynced animation, social networking, messages, videophoning, database, keywords etc. All those things that have come to be popular.
Ultimately the internet becomes a complete social network, with all the advanced features one is used to, and one can post, or share from local node, by keywords blog style, for instance, with autosearch to similar topics, keywords including geographic location, topic, age etc. Interesting development is it not. Now that is a network. Imagine having an app that does all this sitting in the system tray, popping up when there is a videocall etc. And ofcourse the databases will be optimized and named Coolbase.
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I'm just anxious for all the browsers to get to the point of fully supporting the new HTML5 form control types (e.g. input type="date" with the browser built-in calendar widgets) and attributes (being able to arbitrarily attach a form element on the page to any form defined in the document).
Those alone will make my day job much easier.
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It would be nice if they could decouple the OpenGL ES version/context creation from the WebGL specification.
This way you can keep on having new OpenGL ES versions without having to need a new WebGL specification.
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Hoping to see OpenGL ES 3.0 being implemented in WebGL with this new wave of improvements to web standards.
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W3C Finishes HTML5, Begins Work On HTML 5.1Phoronix: W3C Finishes HTML5, Begins Work On HTML 5.1
The World Wide Web Consortium announced today that the definition is now complete for HTML5 and Canvas 2D specifications. While feature-complete, HTML5 and Canvas 2D aren't yet approved W3C standards. The W3C also announced today the first drafts of HTML 5.1 and Canvas 2D Level 2...
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You ever tune into one of those car auctions when you're bored on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon? There's always a lot of classic American iron at those things, but it's just an endless stream of classic Mustangs, Corvettes, Camaros and Firebirds. There's more to American muscle than that.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not hating on those cars or the people who buy them. I just think we should celebrate the great diversity of kickass American cars.
That's our question of the day: What's the most underrated American muscle car of all time?
I'll go with the obvious choice: the AMC AMX. Hell, just about anything from AMC's lineup could get this nod, but the two-seat AMX is my favorite. Anyone who owns one of these is cool in my book.
Your turn, which American muscle car deserves more love than it gets?


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The Red Sox traded a PTBNL for Cleveland RHP Paul Byrd.
Byrd, 37 years old, has made 22 starts this year, posting a 4.53 ERA (131 IP, 146 H, 24 BB, 56 K).
In his last five starts, dating back to before the All-Star Game, he has a 1.80 ERA.
Redsox.com says he'll start on Friday night in place of Clay Buchholz.
August 12, 2008
Sox Pick Up Paul Byrd; He'll Start Friday
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4 comments:
- Soxlosophy said...
any time the sox pick up a player who makes for great whiffleball imitation, i'm happy.
- August 12, 2008 at 2:22 PM
- Tony said...
Well, I suppose the Sox could do much worse for a rental. I guess this means Wakefield's not going to be back for the rest of the season, which sucks, since he was doing quite well his last few starts. For a 4/5 starter, I'm good with this.
I still have fond memories of Byrd "dazzling" the Yankees last year in the ALDS. My memories of ALCS Game 4, on the other hand, are not nearly as fond.
- August 12, 2008 at 2:28 PM
- allan said...
He'll probably replace Laptop -- not Wake.
I assume the Sox will send HH down to get some PawSox starts and then recall him next month.
- August 12, 2008 at 2:42 PM
- nixon33 said...
yeah, see?
- August 12, 2008 at 2:54 PM
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I've started a discussion on the Defiant class length issue, so we can actually try and get a real solution. It seems like we aren't all on the same page here, some people thinking there is a source, some people thinking it is speculation, etc. Let's try to actually present a source, all that jazz. --OuroborosCobra talk 20:40, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Gray Day
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Thanksgiving to do list:
Friday, November 18, 2011
It's almost Turkey Day
Pants: Ann Taylor, Sweater: NY and Co., Shirt and belt : Gap, Shoes: Steve Madden, Necklaces: Thrifted and Sparkle, Bracelets: c/o Mimi's, F21, Watch: Movado, Flower Brooch: DIY
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Tired Eyes
Friday, November 11, 2011
Happy birthday bearded man!
Thursday, November 10, 2011
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It's all fun and games 'till you run out of gyros
Saturday, November 5, 2011
Happy weekend. Love, Bad Blogger
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Oh the cumbersome
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Happy November 1!
Dress and sweater: F21, Tights: Target, Scarf: Gift, Shoes: UO, Shirt: Old Navy, Jewelry: Premier, F21, Movado
11-1-11. Don't ya just love dates like this? Better yet? 11-11-11 is just around the corner. And it's Dusty's birthday!!! I think it's going to be a particularly good day because that just has to mean luck or something like it, right?
Above are some {reeeealllyyy really bad} Halloween pictures. It was all after dark and there was no one around to photograph our costumes, so there you go. Poops. Anywho, you get the general idea. Aaand I really have no excuses.
Final thing on the agenda. This week is shaping up to look awefully nuts. Bad nuts. So if I'm not able to post as regular, do pardon. I'll be parking my rear-hind in the library for the next two afternoons doing reasearch after class. Whoo. It should go super smooth though, because our professor spent 50 minutes today walking us through an exercise that was supposed to be helpful but ended up sounding more like Charlie Brown's teacher. Wha-whaaaa-wha-whaaaa-wha-whaaa. Right. Got it. Just give me ten more years of legal reasearch work under my belt and we will completely be on the same page.
Hope you have a rather libraryless {pleasant}week.
P.S.: Lit our first fire in the fireplace tonight and it is absolutely delicious. As is the scarf around my neck and the wool socks on my toes. Excessive for the first day of November in Florida? Dusty thinks so. I think it'll be good practice for later.
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Ok in most of the armies your general "may ride in a chariot" is it free or do you pay for it?
If its free does it count as a normal chariot + general or just the +2/+3 for the generals attacks?
In other lists general "may ride a horse" which I am sure was free, but a chariot is a wee bit different.
Martin or Wayne your thoughts please.
Ps just played our first game, new kingdom Egyptian v Minoan. Resounding Minoan victory.
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McDuffies wrote:Gemini's like the worst sign to have. I think that whoever made the astrology has something against someone who was gemini so they trashed the sign, made it not agree with any other sign and that stuff. When someone asks you what sign you are before they bother to get to know you, you better not be gemini.
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CLIMAX � Myrtle Lee Jones Snider, 81, of Climax, passed away on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013 at the Randolph Hospice House.
CLIMAX � Myrtle Lee Jones Snider, 81, of Climax, passed away on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013 at the Randolph Hospice House.
A funeral service will be held on Saturday, Oct. 19 at Cool Springs Baptist Church at 2 p.m. officiated by Pastor John Harmon; burial will follow in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends on Friday, Oct. 18 from 6-8 p.m. at Loflin Funeral Home in Liberty.
Myrtle was the daughter of the late John Thomas and Susan Lula Patterson Jones; and was also preceded in death by daughters, Michelle Dawn Snider, Bonita Lynn Snider; sisters, Ruth Greene, Lena Howard and Alene Stutts and brother, Bunk Jones.
Surviving is her husband of 59 years, Claude Snider; son, Alex Snider and wife, Dee of Climax; grandson, John Thomas Snider and wife, Ivey; granddaughter, Hannah Kathryn Snider; great- granddaughter, Katie Snider; great-grandson, Kason Snider; niece, Pat Howard and great-niece, Rojeana McDonald.
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Japan will look to replace the likes of Ichiro Suzuki and Yu Darvish with a new generation of young talent as it bids to capture a third straight World Baseball Classic title.
Suzuki, a key player when Japan won the tournament in 2006 and 2009, opted to sit out the third edition of baseball's global tournament. Shortly after Suzuki announced his decision, Darvish, Norichika Aoki and just about every other Japanese player in Major League Baseball followed suit.
Now Japan will get a chance to see how its up-and-coming pros from home stack up when the two-time defending champions begin their title defense on Saturday at Fukuoka Dome against Brazil.
Japan is in Group A with 2006 runner-up Cuba, China and a Brazil team managed by Hall of Famer Barry Larkin.
Japan could struggle to score runs without being able to rely on Suzuki in the leadoff spot. While the team has several players who can hit home runs, Koji Yamamoto's squad will look to manufacture runs by getting runners on and moving them over. The sacrifice bunt will be used early and often.
Hayato Sakamoto, a 24-year-old shortstop who helped the Yomiuri Giants win the Japan Series last year, will be the leadoff hitter for Japan.
"There are many young players so we need to stick to the Japanese style of baseball," Yamamoto said. "Moving the runner over and getting good results from our pitchers. As long as we do that, we should be fine."
Strong pitching will be a main feature of Japan's team. Yamamoto has a solid 13-member pitching staff led by 24-year-old right-hander Masahiro Tanaka, who is expected to start Japan's opener.
Just about every pitcher on the staff except for the closers has experience starting, so Yamamoto won't hesitate to go to his bullpen early if needed.
A big challenge for Japan's pitchers will be adjusting to the WBC ball, which they say is slippery compared to the ball used in Japan.
Two teams from the group will advance to the March 8-12 second round at Tokyo Dome with a chance to move on to the March 17-19 championship round in San Francisco.
Japan and Cuba will be heavily favored to advance to the second round. Once two teams from Group B reach the Tokyo round, things become more difficult as only two teams go to the United States. South Korea, Australia, the Netherlands and Taiwan are in Group B.
Cuba didn't make it out of the second round four years ago and will be looking to restore its reputation as an international baseball power.
Like Japan, Cuba will be without some of its top names. Pitcher Aroldis Chapman and outfielder Yoenis Cespedes, both stars on the `09 Cuban team, have since defected and are playing in the major leagues for the Reds and A's, respectively.
Cuba's roster does include three players who took part in the first two first two tournaments - outfielder Frederick Cepeda, infielder Yulieski Gourriel and left-handed pitcher Norberto Gonzalez.
Under Larkin, Brazil shocked the baseball world when it ousted Panama in qualifying on its home turf. The former Cincinnati Reds shortstop was asked to manage the team by the Brazilian Baseball Federation after he conducted MLB-run baseball clinics for young Brazilian players last year.
Larkin know his team faces a huge challenge against Japan in the opener.
"We just have to stick to the basics and play like we did against Panama," Larkin said. "It doesn't matter whether you are playing Japan or Panama. You have to play your game."
China got a setback when Kansas City Royals starter Bruce Chen scrapped plans to pitch for the team in this year's tournament. Chen, who is of Chinese descent, grew up in Panama and pitched for that country in the first two tournaments.
While China's team is still very much in the developmental stages, the team has a lot of MLB pedigree at the coaching level and will be managed by former Seattle Mariners skipper John McLaren. Former MLB pitcher Bruce Hurst is the pitching coach, while former MLB manager Art Howe is the hitting coach.


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Jim and Eddie TalkS hit
Friday, May 25, 2012
Ben Kochan, a tweep I follow, tweets me to say that Jim Jefferies and Eddie Ifft mentioned me in their podcast, Jim & Eddie TalkS hit. "That would excite me," he says. "Maybe it excites you".
Indeed it does. Jim Jefferies and Eddie Ifft are among my favourite comics. I'm hoping they say nice things. Maybe point people to interviews I've done with them. Talk up this blog. I'm already imagining my Twitter followers increasing by a good ten percent in a couple of days, like the time Stephen Fry gave me some link love way back when. (I made him LOL. I'm going to keep bragging about it. I don't care whether you deal with it.)
But it's better than that.
I go straight to their podcast homepage to access their latest episode, no. 133. It features Nick Thune. I begin listening.
I begin to get worried when they start talking about fat people. Well, not when they start. When they get to the bit about 'fat people who don't see themselves as fat'. I'm pretty sure that's not me, I'm just hoping I don't fit into (so to speak) that category without knowing it. I don't want to be talked about on their podcast in that context. Even though, truth be told, I'm not that way about my weight. I'm aware of it. However, I am that way about my age. I'm an old person with no idea how old I actually am, or appear. There are people younger than me who seem so much older than me. Mostly because they do grown up things like work hard, earn good money, own houses, drive cars, have kids, submit their Business Activity Statements on time, that sort of thing.
But the fat discussion comes and goes…
There are one or two other moments where the podcast goes to places I hope don't actually involve me.
Towards the end, Nick mentions he's coming to Australia in August. I'm guessing, in the last 30 seconds, they're going to suggest he lets me interview him for this blog.
Nope. That doesn't happen. That's not it. And the episode's over.
I go to iTunes to look at other recent episodes. I see Orny Adams was their guest in the previous episode. And I shudder.
See, I interviewed Orny Adams way back in 2006. Back when I was producing a podcast – a groundbreaking podcast called Radio Ha Ha, dissecting comedy with comedians much as all the great podcasts do now. And not necessarily doing it any better than anyone does it now. But in a time when practically nobody was podcasting, it was important and groundbreaking.
We had an awesome conversation, Orny 'n' me. It went for ages, we covered so much ground, we got on brilliantly. And then, when it was over, I realised I'd stuffed something up technically, and hadn't actually secured a recording I could use. That hurt.
Not long after, I interviewed Eddie Ifft for the first time. I was aware of, and overcame, the technical difficulty early in that interiew, cause I was being extra careful so as not to repeat the heartbreak of an excellent conversation resulting in nothing. Once, with Orny, was all the times I ever wanted it to happen in my life.
So seeing that Orny was the guest of Episode 132, I knew then and there precisely how I was going to feature in Jim & Eddie TalkS hit. Here is an excerpt, and transcript of the relevant part.
Jim Jeffries & Eddie Ifft TalkS hit Ep 132- Eskimo - excerp by standanddeliver
EDDIE IFFT: I do an interview in Australia, when I was there a long time ago. I'm doing my run through and, you know, you go do your series of interviews before the festival… I'm going to all these interviews. I go to this guy, and he interviews me: Dom Romeo. He's the nicest guy in the world.
JIM JEFFERIES: That was the first interview I ever had in my whole career.
EDDIE IFFT: He interviews me for like two hours, and he's such a good guy, and we had had some technical problems that he fixed. And he goes, 'thanks man; I just interviewed Orny Adams a couple of months ago – I interviewed him for two hours and then found out that the recorder didn't work.
ORNY ADAMS: Yeah, yeah, so the whole thing sounded like… [makes unintelligible whispering sound] I'm pouring my heart out… Why do you think I'm not trying today? Done!
So, if you're interested, here's the very first interview Jim Jefferies ever did with anyone.
Here's the last one I did with him.
Here's an interview with Eddie Ifft from a couple of years ago (not the Radio Ha Ha one).
There is no interview with Orny Adams for me to direct you to.


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This summer, a group of nine Hmong students and two Augsburg staff members traveled to Australia as the Global Connections Project. The purpose of their trip was to learn about Hmong social, political, and educational systems in Australia. The group hopes to remain connected with the youth they met while abroad and to continue to build relationships as part of a global community.
Second year student, Ka Vang, shared her experience of meeting with Hmong families and community members.
This trip to Australia was one that cannot be repeated nor done differently. This experience was such a great learning experience for me personally because it made me aware of how important it is to be Hmong. Being a Hmong American girl and visiting the Hmong Australian families in a group was not expected of me before we started planning. I did not think that it was at all possible to do so. Fortunately, we had a lot of interest in this project and put a lot of commitment into this and made it happen. I am really proud of the girls and our advisors for supporting each other through the process of planning and during the trip.
Going to Australia for the first time, I did not really know what to expect but to meet Hmong people. With the little information that we were given from previous speakers and individual research, I was expecting to meet a variety of Hmong families in the different areas that we planned to go.
The most valuable experience to my learning were the community gatherings because I was able to connect with the Hmong people in Australia, which was one of the main goals. I was also able to learn from their experiences and share mine as well. Many of the people were also interested in our stories and our lifestyles in the states.
Many of the Hmong parents in Australia are similar to the parents here in the states, whereas there are similarities and differences within the youth. I don't know if it was just me, but I was quite hurt by the fact that a lot of youth are losing interest in the culture and the traditions. Although there are those who are interested in it, they do not have the resources, time, and anyone to teach them. I understand that it is hard to hang on to one's culture and language in a place where you are the minority, but I think it's still very important to keep our culture alive, regardless of where we are.
Overall, I am really happy that I was part of this trip because it has made me realize how important my identity is to me. I am just thrilled that the people in Australia and I have so much in common, yet have so much differences. We are the same people, but because we live so far away from each other and in different governments, we form these differences.


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The sources pointed out that Apple is releasing a 12-inch MacBook Air because its 11-inch model has a screen size similar to its iPad series products and iPad's increasing sales are impacting MacBook demand and therefore the company is looking to establish a clear boundary between the two product lines.
As for when Apple may stop producing the 11-inch MacBook Air, the sources pointed out that the company so far still has not yet set plans to adjust the 11-inch model, but phasing out the device is a logical plan for the long term.
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Image via The Apples in Stereo's Facebook page.
Sometimes all it takes is a well-placed cover. Despite being a band for over 20 years, The Apples in Stereo reached one of their largest audiences yet when Phish covered the six-year-old song "Energy" at Saratoga Springs, NY's Saratoga Performing Arts Center on Friday night. The cover set off a flurry of tweets and text messages, and single-handedly turned a new scene of fans onto the seminal Athens, GA indie-art group's music.
Robert Schneider, The Apples in Stereo's founder and a key member of the critically acclaimed but commercially underground The Elephant Six Recording Company collective, heard about the cover within minutes of its performance thanks to a friend who happened to be at the show. The Apples in Stereo's team spent much of the weekend bantering with their new followers on social media and probably racking up some new royalties thanks to an increase in Spotify hits. Like Ween and TV on the Radio before them, The Apples in Stereo suddenly became known to thousands of fans as the authors of a well-received Phish cover.
As in turns out, The Apples in Stereo's connection to Phish is much closer than many listeners know. "Energy" appears on the 2007 album New Magnetic Wonder, which was engineered by longtime Pavement and Trey Anastasio collaborator Bryce Goggin. (He's the man who produced Phish's Farmhouse and Round Room, Page McConnell's self-titled album and a slew of Anastasio projects). Schneider also produced, arranged and performed on Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, whose title track Phish covered in 2010. He's also a longtime fan of the Grateful Dead and psychedelic music history who has always seen the walls between jamband and indie rock as thinner than many realize. While he's the first to point out that The Elephant Six Recording Company's lo-fi techniques and punk vibe are worlds away from Phish's expansive jams and tie-dye roots, Schneider was quickly able to trace their roots to a similar psychedelic source and shared love of orchestral arrangements and pop hooks.
Unfortunately, Schneider's newfound attention comes as at sad time for The Apples in Stereo. Last year, The Apples in Stereo keyboardist and core The Elephant Six Recording Company collaborator Bill Doss passed away due to natural causes, and the band has remained quiet for the past year. While Schneider says the group is working on some new material, he is also pursuing a PhD program in Mathematics at Emory University and admits the band's touring future is uncertain. A few days after Phish covered "Energy," Schneider discussed the cover and his band's future with Relix and Jambands.com
Lets' start by talking about Phish's cover of "Energy." Were you aware they planned to cover 'Energy" and, if not, when did you find out?
Yeah, I found out when everyone else did. I got a mass of emails from friends and fans on Facebook and I was pretty pleased about it. Also one thing I'd like to say is that I'm psyched that you're calling from Relix because it's an awesome magazine. I'm a lifelong fan of psychedelic music and being in a psychedelic band and part of a psychedelic musical collective, that's awesome.
Phish often choose awesome things to cover. I think they covered The Beatles' The White Album and The Velvet Underground's Loaded. I mean these are some of the greatest albums ever. And so I've always seem them as a band who chooses their covers based on probably what they think is cool. So I thought that was awesome, I'm so happy. I liked their cover of it too, somebody sent me a YouTube video of it and it was awesome.
I was at the show and I thought that they did a great cover of it, and I felt they kept a lot of the character of your version of it but definitely made it sound like a Phish song.
Yeah, I thought that too. They kept the feel of our song while [making it their own]. Like even looking at the time signature of the videos, they basically sing most of the song by like a minute and a half. That's when it goes into the big instrumental section in the song and I thought that arrangement was really cool.
From looking at my Twitter feed, there seemed to be a lot of back and forth and banter going on between your team and the Phish fans.
Right away when I saw the video, I made a post on Facebook just saying, "Thanks to Phish for their sweet cover," or something like that. Basically a friend of mine emailed me and was like, "Dude, check out this video and your Facebook page," someone had posted the video of them playing on my Facebook page. And I think that it was somebody who was at the show at that moment and emailed it the next day. So I was like, "That's awesome." Yeah, it wasn't something that I knew about in advance but I was very pleasantly surprised.
That's awesome. Have you ever seen Phish?
You know, I haven't seen Phish. They sort of emerged about the time that I was probably like 20 years old or so, and at that time I was completely into nothing but just '60s psychedelic music and then the underground indie rock scene. And so, while I'm a huge Grateful Dead fan—although I missed the chance to ever see the Dead play— American Beauty was a really big influence on me as just a young musician and on all my friends.
I was in my world of making albums and producing my own brand of psychedelic music, and while I knew that there was this movement kind of happening around Phish—and I listened to their albums—I'd never seen them play. I know that their live performances are supposedly where they really are stellar. I always knew that I hadn't really gotten to the soul of the band without seeing them play. At the same time, I've always seen them as being a very tasteful band. Also we recorded with an engineer who has recorded with them too so we sort of felt one degree of separation from them, musically. So I haven't seen them play and I'm sure that it's an awesome experience. I mean, I feel like they're kind of carrying the torch of that sort of a show that the Dead left behind. I mean, I think that that's clearly the case. It's obvious to even say it. As the words are coming out of my mouth, it's like, that's obvious. I have a lot of respect for them.
I assume the engineer you are referring to is Bryce Goggin, who has worked with Phish, Pavement and your band. He's definitely kept one foot in each of these psychedelic worlds.
Yeah. He's amazing too. And if you met him too, you would really see why. Because both the indie world and the sort of jamband world have a number of things in common, but one thing that's definitely in common is there's sort of like a looseness and sort of like a lack of flipness to the scene. I mean, not just to the people but to the music and musicians and the sort of aesthetic. And if you met Bryce, while he's like a very detail-oriented engineer, he's like the most zen-like, mystical, guru kind of guy. And you're totally like, "This is the most relaxed, competent and confident and yet, gentle person." You can see the crossover between Phish and Pavement in this man's personality.
He exudes looseness and relaxedness and gentleness, which I think is kind of like a characteristic of both the indie psychedelic scene and then the more jamband-based psychedelic scene. I mean, these two things are interesting because they exist side by side, they're two modern brands of psychedelia that are out there. It's almost like in the '60s when you had the British psych-pop, like Piper at the Gates of Dawn, and then you had simultaneously the San Francisco psychedelic explosion going on. They're unified in their aspirations and yet musically they sound very different. And there's a lot of crossover also in the listeners. I could see somebody liking The Olivia Tremor Control or the Apples and also liking Phish or the Dead or something like that without there being any conflict in musical taste.
I'm not sure if you know, but Phish has already covered another song from your family that you were involved in, Neutral Milk Hotel's "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea."
Oh that's awesome. I played bass and wrote the horn arrangement from that song. And of course produced it. That's awesome. That's amazing, I'll check that out! Multiple thumbs up to Phish. All three thumbs.


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Startup Asia: A Conversation with Author Rebecca A. Fannin
Asia's innovation hot spots are fast emerging as first-choice destinations for bright, young entrepreneurs as the Silicon Dragon entrepreneurial revolution moves beyond China into new frontier markets. Throughout Asia, technology hubs are forming to rival the original Silicon Valley.
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From the moment Barack Obama appeared on the national stage, conservatives have been searching for the best way to describe the danger he poses to America's traditional way of life. Secularism? Check. Socialism? Sure. A tendency to apologize for America's greatness overseas? That, too. But how to tie them all together?
Gradually, a unifying theme took hold. "At the heart of the debate over Obama's program," declared Rich Lowry and Ramesh Ponnuru in an influential 2010 National Review cover story, is "the survival of American exceptionalism." Finally, a term broad and historically resonant enough to capture the magnitude of the threat. A year later, Newt Gingrich published A Nation Like No Other: Why American Exceptionalism Matters, in which he warned that "our government has strayed alarmingly" from the principles that made America special. Mitt Romney deployed the phrase frequently in his 2012 campaign, asserting that President Obama "doesn't have the same feelings about American exceptionalism that we do." The term, which according to Factiva appeared in global English-language publications fewer than 3,000 times during the Bush Administration, has already appeared more than 10,000 times since Obama became president.
To liberals, the charge that Obama threatens American exceptionalism is daft. He is, after all, fond of declaring, "In no other country on Earth is my story even possible." For some progressive pundits, things hit rock bottom when conservative Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker flayed Obama for not using the words "American exceptionalism" in his 2011 State of the Union speech, even though he had called America a "light to the world" and "the greatest nation on Earth." The entire discussion, declared liberal Post blogger Greg Sargent, had become "absurd," "self-parodic," and an exercise in "nonstop idiocy."
But that's not quite right. When conservatives say American exceptionalism is imperiled, they're onto something. In fundamental ways, America is becoming less exceptional. Where Gingrich and company go wrong is in claiming that the Obama presidency is the cause of this decline. It's actually the result. Ironically, the people most responsible for eroding American exceptionalism are the very conservatives who most fear its demise.
To understand what's threatening American exceptionalism, one must first understand what its contemporary champions mean by the term. American exceptionalism does not simply mean that America is different from other countries. (After all, every country is different from every other one.) It means that America departs from the established way of doing things, that it's an exception to the global rule. And from Alexis de Tocqueville, who chronicled America's uniqueness in the 1830s, to Joseph Stalin, who bemoaned it in the 1920s, to social scientists like Louis Hartz, who celebrated it during the Cold War, the established way of doing things has always been defined by Europe. What makes America exceptional, in other words, is our refusal to behave like the Old World. "Exceptionalism," wrote historian Joyce Appleby, "is America's peculiar form of Eurocentrism."
As America and Europe have changed over time, so have the attributes that exceptionalists claim distinguish us from them. But for the contemporary right, there are basically three: our belief in organized religion; our belief that America has a special mission to spread freedom in the world; and our belief that we are a classless society where, through limited government and free enterprise, anyone can get ahead. Unfortunately for conservatives, each of these beliefs is declining fast.
The Rise of Anticlericalism
For centuries, observers have seen America as an exception to the European assumption that modernity brings secularism. "There is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America," de Tocqueville wrote. In his 1996 book, American Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged Sword, Seymour Martin Lipset quoted Karl Marx as calling America "preeminently the country of religiosity," and then argued that Marx was still correct. America, wrote Lipset, remained "the most religious country in Christendom."
Today's conservatives often cast themselves as defenders of this religious exceptionalism against Obama's allegedly secularizing impulses. "Despite the fact that our current president has managed to avoid explaining on at least four occasions that we are endowed by our creator," Gingrich declared at a 2011 candidates forum, "the fact is that what makes American exceptionalism different is that we are the only people I know of in history to say power comes directly from God."
But in important ways, the exceptional American religiosity that Gingrich wants to defend is an artifact of the past. The share of Americans who refuse any religious affiliation has risen from one in 20 in 1972 to one in five today. Among Americans under 30, it's one in three. According to the Pew Research Center, Millennials—Americans born after 1980—are more than 30 percentage points less likely than seniors to say that "religious faith and values are very important to America's success." And young Americans don't merely attend church far less frequently than their elders. They also attend far less than young people did in the past. "Americans," Pew notes, "do not generally become more [religiously] affiliated as they move through the life cycle"—which means it's unlikely that America's decline in religious affiliation will reverse itself simply as Millennials age.
Americans remain far more willing than Europeans to affirm God's importance in their lives (although that gap has closed somewhat among the young). But when the subject shifts from belief in God to association with churches, America's famed religious exceptionalism virtually disappears. In 1970, according to the World Religion Database, Europeans were more than 16 percentage points more likely than Americans to eschew any religious identification. By 2010, the gap was less than half of 1 percentage point. According to Pew, while Americans are today more likely to affirm a religious affiliation than people in Germany or France, they are actually less likely to do so than Italians and Danes.
Even more interesting is the reason for this change. Many of the Americans who today eschew religious affiliation are neither atheists nor agnostics. Most pray. In other words, Americans aren't rejecting religion, or even Christianity. They are rejecting churches. There are various explanations for this. As Princeton's Robert Wuthnow notes in his book After the Baby Boomers, the single and childless historically attend church at lower rates than married parents do. And women who work outside the home attend less than women who don't. Which means that with women marrying later, having children later, and working more outside the home, it's logical that church attendance would drop.
But it's not just changes in family and work patterns that drive the growth of religious nonaffiliation. It's politics. In the mid-20th century, liberals were almost as likely to attend church as conservatives. But starting in the 1970s, when the Religious Right began agitating against abortion, feminism, and gay rights, liberals began to identify organized Christianity with conservative politics. In recent years, the Religious Right's opposition to gay marriage has proved particularly alienating to Millennials. "The actions of the Religious Right," argue sociologists Michael Hout and Claude Fischer, "prompted political moderates and liberals to quit saying they had a religious preference." In their book, American Grace: How Religion Divides and United Us, Robert D. Putnam and David E. Campbell cite a study suggesting that many "young Americans came to view religion ... as judgmental, homophobic, hypocritical, and too political." Today, according to Pew, the religiously unaffiliated are disproportionately liberal, pro-gay marriage, and critical of churches for meddling too much in politics. Not coincidentally, so are America's young.
What is growing in contemporary America, in other words, is something long associated with Europe: anticlericalism. In Europe, noted the late political scientist James Q. Wilson in a 2006 essay on American exceptionalism, the existence of official state religions led secularists to see "Christians as political enemies." America, Wilson argued, lacked this political hostility to organized religion because it separated church and state. But today, even without an established church, the Religious Right plays such a prominent and partisan role in American politics that it has spurred the kind of antireligious backlash long associated with the old world. Barack Obama is the beneficiary of that backlash, because voters who say they "never" attend religious services favored him by 37 percentage points in 2008 and 28 points in 2012. But he's not the cause. The people most responsible for America's declining religious exceptionalism are the conservatives who have made organized Christianity and right-wing politics inseparable in the minds of so many of America's young.
If the champions of American exceptionalism see religion as one key dividing line between the new and old worlds, they see America's special mission overseas as another. "I believe," declared Romney in 2011, that "we are an exceptional country with a unique destiny and role in the world … that of a great champion of human dignity and human freedom." For many Washington conservatives, that unique world role gives America unique obligations: We cannot stand aside while evil triumphs. But it also gives America unique privileges: We need not be bound by the opinions of others. As George W. Bush declared in his 2004 State of the Union address, America does not need a "permission slip" from other nations to protect itself and fulfill its mission in the world.
But young Americans are far less likely than their elders to endorse this exceptional global role. They want the U.S. to do less overseas; and what America must do, they want done more consensually. Americans under 30, for instance, are 23 percentage points more likely than older Americans to say the United States should take its allies' interests into account, even if that means compromising our own. They are 24 points more favorable to the United Nations than Americans over 50, the largest age gap in the 17 countries that Pew surveyed. And as with religious affiliation, this generation gap within the United States is eroding the gap between Americans and Europeans. Among respondents over 50, Pew found in 2011, Americans were 29 percentage points more likely than Britons to deny that their country needed U.N. approval before going to war. Among respondents under 30, by contrast, the gap was only 8 points.
Were young Americans merely embracing multilateralism over unilateralism, this shift wouldn't be so fundamental. But for conservatives, America's exceptional role in the world isn't merely about what we do overseas. What we do overseas expresses our belief in ourselves. It's no coincidence that Romney's campaign manifesto was titled No Apology: Believe in America, a reference to Obama's supposed tendency to apologize for America's global misdeeds. In Lowry and Ponnuru's words, Obama threatens American exceptionalism because he threatens "America's civilizational self-confidence."
That's where things get interesting, because, as conservatives suspect, Americans' declining belief in our special virtue as a world power really is connected to our declining belief in our special virtue as a people. And the young are leading the way. A 2013 poll by the Public Religion Research Institute found that while almost two in three Americans over 65 call themselves "extremely proud to be American," among Americans under 30 it is fewer than two in five. According to a Pew study in 2011, Millennials were a whopping 40 points less likely than people 75 and older to call America "the greatest country in the world."
Young Americans, in fact, are no more "civilizationally self-confident" than their European counterparts. When Pew asked respondents in 2011 whether "our culture is superior" to others, it found that Americans over the age of 50 were, on average, 15 points more likely to answer yes than their counterparts in Britain, France, Germany, and Spain. Americans under 30, by contrast, were actually less likely to agree than their peers in Britain, Germany, and Spain. And as the Millennials, who are still reaching adulthood, constitute an ever-growing share of America's adult population, Americans are becoming a people no more likely to assert their national supremacy than are Europeans. In 2002, according to Pew, Americans were 20 percentage points more likely than Germans to declare their culture superior to that of other nations. By 2011, the gap was down to 2 points.
One reason for this shift is demographic. According to the Public Religion Research Institute, African-Americans and Hispanics, who comprise a larger share of America's young than of its old, are less likely to call themselves "extremely proud" of the United States than whites are. In their skepticism of unilateral foreign policy and overt patriotism, young Americans are also reflecting broader national and international trends. Millennials are coming of age at a time when America's relative power overseas has declined. They're also products of an educational system that, more than in the past, emphasizes inclusion and diversity, which may breed a discomfort with claims that America is better than other nations.
But however important these long-term trends, they can't explain the abruptness of the shift away from exceptionalist attitudes about America's role in the world. For this, we must look to George W. Bush.
Ever since Karl Mannheim's writing in the 1920s, sociologists have observed that people are most influenced by events that occur in their late teens and early 20s—once they separate from their parents but before they establish stable lifestyles and attitudes of their own. For most Millennials, these plastic years coincided with the Bush presidency. And it is Bush's vision of America's aggressive, unfettered world role, especially as manifested in the Iraq War, that young Americans are rebelling against.
Young Americans actually began the Bush presidency more supportive of invading Iraq than the population at large. But their disillusionment has proved far more intense. Between 2002 and 2008, the percentage of older Americans who supported the Iraq War dropped 15 points. Among Americans under 30, by contrast, it dropped a whopping 47 points. As young Americans turned against the war, they turned against Bush's exceptionalist vision of an America with unique burdens and privileges. Even more fundamentally, they turned against the chest-thumping, "We're No. 1" brand of patriotism that often accompanied it. In 2004, Jon Stewart—whose comedy show that year regularly drew more young viewers than any other cable news show—published America (The Book), in which, according to one reviewer, "no aspect of our patriotic pride is too sacred to be sacrificed on the altar of irony." The following year, Stewart's colleague, Stephen Colbert, launched The Colbert Report, which occasionally featured him wrapped nude in the American flag. Between 2003 and 2011, according to Pew, the percentage of Americans calling themselves "very patriotic" dropped by less than 3 points among older Americans but by 10 points among Millennials.
This turn against exceptionalist foreign policy—like young America's turn against organized religion—has undoubtedly boosted Obama's political career. Had he not opposed the Iraq War, and then seen the war prove catastrophic, it's unlikely he would have won the Democratic nomination, let alone the presidency. Among antiwar voters, he beat John McCain by 54 points. But as with dwindling religious affiliation, Obama's presidency has been more the result of the decline American exceptionalism than its cause. If any president bears responsibility for the public's souring on the idea that the United States can play by its own rules on the world stage, it is Bush, assisted by many of the same conservative politicians and pundits who now bemoan American exceptionalism's demise.
Class Consciousness
American exceptionalism's third, and most fundamental, contemporary meaning is about neither religion nor foreign policy. It's about mobility. Starting in the 19th century, foreign observers began noting that white Americans were less likely than Europeans to be prisoners of their birth. Because America's white poor could more easily rise above their parents' station, they did not constitute a static, aggrieved working class—and were less tempted by socialism. In the words of Princeton historian Daniel Rodgers, "Socialism's weakness in the United States was taken as further proof of the point: that the old rules of caste and class relations had been superseded."
For the most part, today's conservatives lustily endorse this exceptionalist narrative. "Class is not a fixed designation in this country," declared Paul Ryan in 2011. Unlike Europe, where "masses of the long-term unemployed are locked into the new lower class," America is "an upwardly mobile society." Lowry and Ponnuru add, "In America, there really hasn't been a disaffected proletariat—because the proletariat has gotten rich."
But conservatives worry that by encouraging reliance on government and discouraging individual initiative, Obama is making America more like Europe. Obama, warns former Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, is hooking Americans on the "crack cocaine of [government] dependency." "It's not a traditional America anymore," Fox's Bill O'Reilly despaired on the night Obama won reelection. "People feel that they are entitled to things" from the state.
When conservatives worry that America is not as economically exceptional anymore, they're right. A raft of studies suggests that upward mobility is now rarer in the United States than in much of Europe. But if America's exceptional economic mobility is largely a myth, it's a myth in which many older Americans still believe. Among the young, by contrast, attitudes are catching up to reality. According to a 2011 Pew poll, young Americans were 14 points more likely than older Americans to say that the wealthy in America got there mainly because "they know the right people or were born into wealthy families" rather than because of their "hard work, ambition, and education." And as young Americans internalize America's lack of economic mobility, they are developing the very class consciousness the United States is supposed to lack. In 2011, when Pew asked Americans to define themselves as either a "have" or a "have-not," older Americans chose "have" by 27 points. In contrast, young Americans, by a 4-point margin, chose "have-not." According to the exceptionalist story line, Americans are all supposed to consider themselves "middle class," regardless of their actual economic fortunes. For seniors, that's largely true. According to a 2012 Pew study, they were 43 points more likely to call themselves "middle" than "lower" class. Among young Americans, by contrast, the percentage calling themselves "middle" and "lower" class was virtually the same.
And in the final undoing of the exceptionalist narrative, young Americans are expressing greater interest in "socialism," although it's unclear what they mean by it. A 2011 Pew study found that while Americans over 30 favored capitalism over socialism by 27 points, Americans under 30 narrowly favored socialism. Compared with older Americans, Millennials are 36 points more likelyto prefer a larger government that provides more services over a smaller one that provides fewer.
As Millennials grow older, Americans as a whole—whose actual economic mobility is no longer exceptional—are becoming less exceptional in their attitudes about class. Between 1988 and 2011, the percentage of Americans who identified as "have-nots" doubled, from fewer than one in five to more than one in three. In 1988, Americans earning under $30,000 a year were 18 points more likely to call themselves "haves." By 2011, those numbers, adjusted for inflation, had flipped: The poorest Americans were 15 points more likely to call themselves "have-nots."
Americans are also becoming less exceptional in their views of capitalism. In 2003, according to GlobeScan, Americans were more than 14 percentage points more likely than Italians, Britons, Canadians, and Germans to say the "free market economy is the best system on which to base the future of the world." By 2010, they were almost 2 points less likely.
When conservatives acknowledge these trends, they often chalk them up to Obama's policies, which have supposedly drained Americans of their rugged individualism and habituated them to government handouts. "Once the public is hooked on government health care," Lowry and Ponnuru note, "its political attitudes shift leftward." But Obama is less the driver of this shift in economic attitudes than the beneficiary. It's certainly true that Obama won the votes of Americans skeptical that they can rise via the unfettered market. Among the majority of 2012 voters who believe America's economic system favors the wealthy, Obama beat Romney by 45 points. But Obama is not the reason so many Americans believe that. For more than a century, commentators have chalked up Americans' support for capitalism and lack of economic resentment to America's exceptional upward mobility. It's unclear when exactly American upward mobility began to decline. But it's not surprising that, eventually, that decline would cause class attitudes to harden.
The question exceptionalists should be asking is why America, once vaunted for its economic mobility, now trails much of the advanced world. Single-parent families clearly play a role, since poor children born into two-parent homes are far more upwardly mobile than those who are not. Housing patterns that segregate the poor from the middle class also seem to limit poor kids' chances of getting ahead. But economic inequality is also a big part of the story. Across the world, the University of Ottawa's Miles Corak has demonstrated, countries with higher inequality suffer lower mobility. The same is true inside the United States: The flatter a city is economically, the more likely its poor will rise.
Part of the reason is "opportunity hoarding." In recent decades, the wealth gap between the richest Americans and everyone else has dramatically widened. Rich Americans have used this influx of cash to give their children special advantages that keep them from losing their spots atop the income ladder to children born with lesser means. Think about test preparation, which became a national industry only in the 1970s. Or the way wealthy parents subsidize unpaid internships or buy expensive houses to gain access to the best public schools. In the early 1970s, rich families spent four times as much on their children's education as poor ones. Today, they spend almost seven times as much. Culture plays a large role in this. If the rich didn't value education, they wouldn't spend their cash on it. But until recently, they didn't have so much cash to spend. As a paper by Stanford sociologists Pablo Mitnik, Erin Cumberworth, and David Grusky notes, "Inequality provides privileged families with more resources that can then be lavished on their children, resources that raise their chances of securing desirable class positions for themselves." Whether this lavishing has contributed to an absolute decline in upward mobility in the United States in recent decades, it has certainly contributed to America's decline relative to other advanced countries.
All of which raises another question that conservative exceptionalists should be asking: What's behind skyrocketing inequality? Why do the top 1 percent of Americans, who took in roughly 11 percent of national income in the mid-1970s, account for more than double that today? Globalization and technology are clearly part of the story. If you're an American who works with your hands, you're competing with low-paid workers across the globe, not to mention machines, to an extent scarcely imaginable a few decades ago. That competition pushes down wages for Americans without a college degree, and widens the gap between rich and poor.
What globalization and technology can't explain is why inequality is so much higher in America than in Europe, where the same tectonic forces are at play. Indeed, if you eliminate government policies on taxing and spending, America is about as unequal as Sweden, Norway, and Denmark and a bit more equal than Finland, Germany, and Britain. America claims its place as the most unequal major Western country only when you add in government policy. Which is to say that while globalization and technology may be increasing inequality everywhere, they are increasing it more in the United States because, compared with Europe, the United States redistributes less money from rich to poor.
Which brings us back to conservatives, because it is their champions—Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, Newt Gingrich in the 1990s, George W. Bush in the 2000s—who pushed many of the policies that have boosted inequality. In the mid-1970s, the federal government's top tax rate for regular income was 70 percent and its top rate for long-term capital gains was almost 40 percent. When Bush left office, the rate on regular income had fallen to 35 percent and the rate on long-term capital gains was down to 15 percent. (That has crept up under Obama to almost 40 percent on regular income and 20 percent on capital gains for individuals making over $400,000.) These huge shifts in tax policy have been partially offset by antipoverty spending, which has grown significantly since the 1970s, largely because skyrocketing health care costs have made Medicaid far more expensive. But even if you take that increase into account, America is still doing far less to combat inequality than other advanced democracies.
If you believe, as academics increasingly do, that economic inequality goes hand in hand with calcified class relations, then decades of conservative policy have contributed to America's relative lack of economic mobility.
This, in turn, has soured young Americans on the belief that through the free market they can rise above the circumstances of their birth. Which means that, when it comes to declining faith in the American Dream of upward mobility, as with declining faith in organized religion and declining faith in America's special mission in the world, conservatives have helped foment the very backlash against American exceptionalism that they decry.
The Turnaround
But in all three areas, this backlash may actually prove a source of hope. It may not entirely restore public belief in America's unique virtues, but it may reverse some of the trends that sapped that belief in the first place.
Start with religion. To some, the rise in religious nonaffiliation is a frightening departure from American tradition. It may turn out, however, to be just the challenge American Christianity needs.
Historically, American religion has benefited greatly from its independence from the state. In recent decades, however, that independence has been compromised. The Religious Right has become a wing of the Republican Party, led by power brokers who speak biblically but act politically. In response, many young Americans have begun voting against the GOP on Sundays by declining to attend church.
Their alienation has jolted religious leaders and contributed to a new willingness to question the corrupting entanglement between churches and partisan politics. "When I talk to neighbors or strangers and tell them that I try my best to follow Jesus," wrote David Kuo, an evangelical who worked for Ralph Reed, John Ashcroft, William Bennett, and George W. Bush, "their first thoughts about me are political ones—they figure I don't care about the environment, I support the war in Iraq, I oppose abortion .… That is what they associate with my faith." So disturbing was this realization that Kuo in 2006 published a book arguing, "It is time for Christians to take a temporary step back from politics, to turn away from its seductions."
That's beginning to happen. According to John S. Dickerson, an influential young evangelical pastor, "The pulse of evangelicalism is … shifting, in many ways for the good, from American politics to aid for the global poor." Inspired by Pope Francis, prominent Catholic Republicans such as Paul Ryan are questioning whether a Christianity that blesses the lobbying agenda of the chamber of commerce will ever truly challenge secular society or reengage America's disaffected young.
So far, there's no evidence this shift is stemming the rising tide of religious nonaffiliation. Even Francis, although widely admired by American Catholics, hasn't yet brought them back to the pews. Still, the new spirit of humility and self-criticism among America's church leaders is healthy. And it's unlikely it would be occurring had young people not shattered the stereotype of Americans as unquestioning churchgoers. Moreover, since most of these young Americans reject a partisan church—but not a loving God—they may one day create a constituency for religious institutions that spurns the temptations of state power. Which is, in a way, what American religious exceptionalism was supposed to be all about.
The backlash against America's special mission in the world may prove heartening, too. Over the last decade, that special mission has justified policies—such as the invasion, occupation, and failed reconstruction of Afghanistan and Iraq—that have cost the United States massively in money and blood. And it has justified ignoring international norms, most importantly on torture, which has sapped America's moral authority. Yet many hawkish elites remain loath to acknowledge the limits of American power, let alone American wisdom.
In desiring a more modest and consensual foreign policy, young people are recapturing the wisdom of an earlier era. In the 1950s, after a painful and costly war in Korea, Dwight Eisenhower warned that by dispatching troops to oppose every communist advance, America would undermine its economic strength and democratic character even as it extended its military reach. Today, whether it is their support for a smaller, cheaper military or their skepticism about unchecked government surveillance, young Americans are the age group most sensitive to the financial and moral costs of continuing Bush's expansive "war on terror." Eisenhower's fear of overreach led him to resist calls for sending U.S. troops to Vietnam; young Americans are today 30 points more likely than their elders to say the United States should avoid war with Iran.
Underlying this more modest foreign policy vision is a more modest assessment of America itself, a modesty that may look to conservatives such as Lowry and Ponnuru like "lack of civilizational self-confidence." But here, too, young Americans are reclaiming the insights of an earlier time. In 1947, with politicians drawing ever brighter lines between the virtue of American democracy and the evil of Soviet totalitarianism, George Kennan told students at the National War College, "There is a little bit of totalitarian buried somewhere, way down deep, in each and every one of us." Kennan, and like-minded mid-20th-century intellectuals such as Walter Lippmann and Reinhold Niebuhr, considered America's political system superior to the Soviet Union's. But they argued that, paradoxically, what made it superior was its recognition of American fallibility. America, unlike the U.S.S.R., bound its leaders within restraining systems of law that denied them the right to unfettered action no matter how convinced they were of their own good intentions. That same spirit led the United States to help build institutions like the United Nations and NATO, which gave smaller nations some voice over America's behavior, and won the United States a measure of legitimacy among its allies that the Soviet Union never enjoyed.
As young men, Lippmann and Niebuhr had seen two epic visions—Woodrow Wilson's dream of a war to end war, and the socialist dream of a revolution to end class oppression—turn ugly. And it was their disillusionment with political crusades that woke them to the importance of building restraints against America's capacity to do evil rather than merely unleashing its supposedly innate inclination to do good. Perhaps young Americans, having in their formative years watched Bush's epic post-9/11 vision breed lies, brutality, and state collapse, and America's celebrated capitalist system descend into financial crisis, have gained their own appreciation of American fallibility. Let's hope so, because as Niebuhr and Lippmann understood, the best way to ensure that America remains an exceptional power—better than the predatory empires of the old world—is to remember that we are not inherently better at all.
The third backlash may prove most significant of all. Americans are right to cherish economic mobility. But the myth that America still enjoys exceptional mobility has become an opiate impeding efforts to make that mobility real again. When newly elected New York Mayor Bill de Blasio called for raising taxes on the wealthy to fund preschool and after-school programs, he was instantly accused of "class warfare," as if sullying the natural, classless, reality of New York City life. Critics of the inheritance tax often invoke a mythic America where the people passing on multimillion-dollar estates to their children are latter-day Horatio Algers who have gotten rich because of their gumption and hard work. They do so even though the estate tax affects just over 0.1 percent of American families, the same tiny elite that in recent decades has used its massive economic gains to insulate its children from competition from the very economic strivers that opponents of the inheritance tax celebrate.
Since the 1970s, the conservative movement has used the myth of a classless America to redistribute wealth upward, thus hardening class divisions, at least relative to other nations. It's no surprise that the young, having no memory of the more equal, more mobile America of popular legend, see this reality more clearly. And because they do, they are more eager to change it. Unlike every other age group, which opposed the Occupy movement by double digits, Millennials supported it by double digits.
As Millennials constitute a larger share of the electorate—rising from 29 percent of eligible voters in 2012 to a projected 36 percent in 2016 and 39 percent in 2020—they are creating a constituency for politicians willing to both acknowledge America's lack of class mobility and try to remedy it. The key to such an effort is increasing the number of poor students who graduate from college. Having a college degree quadruples someone's chances of moving from the poorest fifth of the population to the wealthiest. But educationally, many poor students fall so far behind so early that their chances of attending college are crippled by the time they leave elementary school. By eighth grade, children from wealthy families are already an astonishing four grade levels ahead of children who grow up poor.
There is evidence from France and Denmark that expanding preschool enrollment can significantly close this performance gap. A Brookings Institution study found that enrolling low-income children in high-quality preschools could boost their lifetime earnings by as much as $100,000. Building on such data, de Blasio has famously proposed making preschool universal in New York City, to be paid for with a tax on people earning over $500,000 a year. Now New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has gone one better, promising universal preschool throughout the state. President Obama proposed something similar in his recent State of the Union address.
These efforts still face resistance, but they stand any chance at all only because of the growing recognition that America is not the highly mobile nation its cheerleaders proclaim it to be. To Mitt Romney, the public's growing alienation from this and other national myths may reflect a disturbing refusal to "believe in America." But "discontent," Thomas Edison once quipped, "is the first necessity of progress." And by challenging the comforting stories we tell about ourselves, a new American generation might just begin the long, hard work of making America exceptional again.
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Chief Justice Roberts Seems to Believe the South Has No Special Problem With Racism
Here goes the Republican Party's latest serious attempt to get rid of that troublesome Voting Rights Act that they've hated with a special vitriol ever since it was enacted: Voting Rights Act Takes a Beating in the Supreme Court.
The right wing justices are sounding a lot like right wing bloggers.
A question posed by Chief Justice John Roberts to the Obama administration's lawyer defending the Voting Rights Act captured the tenor of the proceedings.
"Is it the government's submission that citizens in the South are more racist than citizens not in the South?" Roberts asked.
Is he kidding?
I've spent a lot of time in the South, and while there are plenty of great non-racist people living there, to say that the South has no special problems with racism is absolutely beyond ludicrous.
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