Daily Archives: 02/28/2012

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(Community Matters) 10 hottest chorus boys in NY musicals per TimeOut New York

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(Community Matters) notes while reading:

Symbolic Analysts (Robert Reich), Cognitive Elite (Murray & Herrnstein), Bourgeois Bohemians (David Brooks), the Creative Class (Richard Florida) – the managerial & professional occupations of the upper middle class. Those who run the nation’s economic, political and cultural institutions the new upper class.

Murray defines the new upper class as top 5% of adults ages 25 & older in managerial positions in medicine, law, engineering, architecture, sciences, universities & content-production jobs.

Status-income disequilibrium.

Cognitive ability and cognitive segregation – this resonates. Plus, cultural capital is an advantage to entry into the elite universities (read: Daniel Golden’s *The Price of Admission*), or is it homogamy?

Socialeconomic segregation. I’ve been talking about this for years – the real culprit & increasing risk in Austin. Austin is even cited as one of three cities.

How thick is your bubble? Too many Americans today know nothing about the lives of other Americans.

Murray’s The Founding Virtues – industriouness, honesty, marriage & religiosity. Ok, my turn to drive now

(Community Matters) David Brooks – The Possum Republicans. I might be abstaining from partisan politics – endorsing, giving and raising – yet I’m damn sure participating in civil discourse about politics.

Not sure what’s the fix to the phenomenon David Brooks references. It was operatives who incubated brown shirt tactics flaming cries for religious and national purity, for rolling back women’s gains, even the availability of contraception. This doesn’t only threaten a party, it threatens the entire country. Encouraging honorable people to stand up against these cries isn’t only one party’s challenge, we’re all threatened. It could take an independent candidate in 2016.

(Community Matters) You know it’s been a good night when the table is spilling over with plates, glasses, bottles of wine, tequila, brandy and grapa.

Lovely evening at our dear friend Julie’s & Fran’s with our dear friend Tim Johnson and three new friends Garrick Stephens, Jamie & Constance Garza.