"Vivek Murthy, the surgeon general of the United States, has said many times in recent years that the most prevalent health issue in the country is not cancer or heart disease or obesity. It is isolation...Beginning in the 1980s, Schwartz says, study after study started showing that those who were more socially isolated were much … Continue reading The Lonely Middle Aged Man
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The Myth of the Fiscal Conservative
Take boots, for example. [Vimes] earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the … Continue reading The Myth of the Fiscal Conservative
