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  1. It is very sad. I do hope she remains mostly compos.

    I too fear it, and just as you say, every time I lose track of something — I wonder.

    PS. Thanks for the link. They will have my support, I think.

  2. I spent an afternoon with her when she visited a post to which I was assigned almost 20 years ago. She was a sharp lady, very perceptive, and I am sorry to hear of this diagnosis. As Julie says above, though, it is a diagnosis we all fear as we get older.

  3. Not to demean the great lady any, but I saw a interview with the actor Richard Dreyfuss some years ago. I assumed he was far left, but towards the end of the interview he made an impassioned plea for more civics education in our primary/secondary schools and perhaps outside of school.

    Here is a bit lifted from his website that I got the RD’s imdb.com page.

    [from his own homepage, The Dreyfuss Civics Initiative] “To teach our kids how to run our country, before they are called upon to run our country…if we don’t, someone else will run our country.”

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    Segueing from civics to fundamental economics, the Whitehouse has just put out a 72 page document on the inevitable pitfalls of socialism, under the auspices of The Council of Economic Advisors, purportedly authored by Kevin Hassett. It’s entitled “The Opportunity Costs of Socialism.”

    Here is some commentary on it, and also the document itself.

    Another amazing free economic treatise that came out a few weeks ago is “Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises” by hedge fund guy Ray Dalio. It’s long and dry and repetitive in a way, since it treats generalized categories and then covers explicit examples in detail.

  4. Richard Dreyfuss has founded a similar organization:

    “To teach our kids how to run our country, before they are called upon to run our country…if we don’t, someone else will run our country.”
    – Richard Dreyfuss

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