Monthly Archives: August 2011

(Community Matters)  It’s so hot here in Texas, I’m gonna go ahead and die, then go to Hell so I can cool off.

(Community Matters) a bit of fun gone too far

uncensored picture below:

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(Community Matters) Friedman on Obama needing to shake off all the whisperers

(Community Matters) New York Attorney General Kicked Off Government Group Leading Foreclosure Probe

Not good. I agree with Joe Biden’s son and NY AG Eric Schneiderman, “events leading up to the mortgage crisis must be fully investigated, including origination and securitization practices, before any broad immunity is granted.”

I get the other side of this equation, we’ve got to move housing stock if we’re to bring this country out of recession. However, the lack of personal accountability for the mortgage & financial crisis, the Great Recession, undermines critical trust

(Community Matters) Outrageous

Quick internet search shows Harris County Associate Judge Charley Prine, Jr was the Regional Political Director at Republican National Committee from 1984 – 1989.

(Community Matters)  If banks, other mortgage underwriters & mortgage aggregators will exclude personal & corporate criminal prosecution exemption from the settlement, it shouldn’t be a problem

(Community Matters) Breaking bread – Barbara and Carrie are the consummate hostesses. Last night was six of us.

Hal McIntosh, Brian O’Neill, Eric Varity, Barbara Woghemulth, Carrie Stapelton

Good gosh some great stories told before and after dinner – I’d not be invited back if I told most.

(Community Matters) I’ve written about Hal McIntosh before. Besides Barbara & Carrie, he and his partner, Eric Varity, have become my two best friends on the Cape.

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(Community Matters) Our friend and Provincetowns’s celebrated contemporary artist, Anne Packard, painted this picture of one of my dearest late friends, Kay Longcope (Barbara Woghlemuth’s partner).

for those who know Anne’s work, it’s very nontraditional. Last year while I was here, she said she hadn’t finished it because she hadn’t completed the face. She had finished, she just didn’t realize. It’s exquisite, hauntingly beautiful – very much in the style of her grandfather, Max Bohm.

(Community Matters) Very important article in today’s NYTimes magazine about decision fatigue and ego depletion.

I’d like to know if computer & auto purchase configuration programs are designed to take advantage of this phenomenon and if so, do we consider this ethical.

Note: sugar restoring will power, artificial sweetner not doing so. During ego depletion, our brains respond more favorably to immediate rewards and less to long term prospects. Glucose helps restore ego depletion.

hmm, reinforces my simple sugars (fresh fruits) allowance during dieting – as well as importance of naps.

(Community Matters) I tell myself that.  Do you think it’s true?  Do we revisit these traumas with perspective and somehow make peace with them?  Or do we just scar on top of scar?  If so, I’m just giving kids one more thing to carry.  Something else they may never learn to let go.

– Steven Tomlinson

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(Community Matters) Sorry to have missed JoLynn & Greg Free’s dinner for Sandi Aitken and Bob Tomlinson last night. Glad Steven was there representing us.

Uncle Bob and aunt-to-be Sandi depart for Bhutan soon and will be married at the Tiger’s Nest Monastery