How does culture decide which changes are acceptable & which are not?

In 1983, Louise and I started a travel business in suburban Atlanta. Travel had recently been deregulated and the industry was like the Wild West; we invented the first "frequent-flier program" for a travel agency, and it got us on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. Business was good.

Louise ran the front end of the business with our travel agents, and I'll never forget the day one of our better customers came in and said to her something like, "Hey, honey, can you get me a decent ticket to Dallas?"

Her reply was simple: "I'm not your honey."

"Well, sweetheart," he replied, "I still want a trip to Dallas."

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-Thom

Tuesday's Daily Stack

Article: "Culture Has Changed About Sexism - When Will It Change About Greedy Billionaire-ism?" by Thom Hartmann.

Petition: "Petition to Call for a Convention Of States".

Book: "Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else" by Chrystia Freeland.

Article: "Biden Eyes First Major Tax Hike Since 1993 in Next Economic Plan" by Nancy Cook and Laura Davison.

Book: The Hidden History of American Oligarchy: Reclaiming Our Democracy from the Ruling Class by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Tyco Ex-CEO's Party for Wife Cost $2.1 Million, Togas Included" by James Bandler and Jerry Guidera.

Case: "Loving v. Virginia" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Corporate CEOs Don't Earn The Millions They're Paid" by Dean Baker.

Article: "One in four House members has opted not to receive Covid-19 vaccine so far" by Kasie Hunt and Dartunorro Clark.

Article: "Senator Calls For DOJ To Probe FBI's 'Fake' Brett Kavanaugh Investigation" by Alison Durkee.

Article: "Greg Abbott Admits There's No Voter Fraud, Insists On 'Election Reform' Anyway" by David.

Article: "$11 Trillion Offshore Assets Uncovered After 100 Countries Share Information on 84 Million Bank Accounts" by Kevin Helms.

Quote: "A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money." - Everett Dirksen.

Book: Lifehouse by Pete Townshend with Jeff Young.

Book: Against Elections by David Van Reybrouck.

Article: "Polis" by Wikipedia.

Case: "Brown v. McKinney".

Hour Two: Fukushima radiation in the ocean & food chain?
- Dr. Ken Buesseler, Senior Scientist-Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute

Article: "FAQs: Radiation from Fukushima" by Ken Buesseler.

Article: "What I Learned from an Ocean Radioactivity Testing Project" by Ken Buesseler.

Article: "Fukushima Radiation in U.S. West Coast Tuna" by NOAA Fisheries.

Article: "Fukushima: How the ocean became a dumping ground for radioactive waste" by Tim Schauenberg.

Article: "John Gofman" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Union of Concerned Scientists" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Bioaccumulation" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Caesium 137" by radioactivity.eu.com.

Article: "Strontium-90" by radioactivity.eu.com.

Article: "Iodine" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Tritium" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Chernobyl disaster", 26 April 1986 by Wikipedia.

Article: "Japan's radiation found in California bluefin tuna" by David Perlman.

Article: "Tax inversion" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Should Biden Forgive Student Loans" by Invisibly.

Article: "Democrat Abrams Urges Lifting Filibuster for U.S. Election Reform Bill" by David Shepardson.

Article: "McConnell warns of 'scorched earth Senate' if Democrats change filibuster rules." by Carl Hulse.

Article: "The most popular tax havens worldwide" by WorldData.info.

Site: Diamond and Silk.

Article: "Michael Shellenberger" by Wikipedia.

Book: Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All by Michael Shellenberger.

Site: Aware Show.

Site: Udo Erasmus.

Article: "Medications Found in Water are Changing the Sex of Fish" by Robert Harrington.

Bill: "H.R.2474 - Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2019" by Rep. Scott, Robert C. "Bobby" [D-VA-3].

Hour Three: Advocates Sound Alarm Over Quiet Trump Era Move That Could Further Privatize Medicare
- Alex Lawson, Executive Director - Social Security Works / Strengthen Social Security

Article: "Advocates Sound Alarm Over Quiet Trump Era Move That Could Further Privatize Medicare" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "Advocates Sound Alarm Over Quiet Trump Era Move That Could Further Privatize Medicare" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "The Ghost of the Trump Administration Is Haunting Medicare" by Diane Archer.

Video: "Midwest battles to keep invasive Asian carp out of the Great Lakes".

Article: "Harry J. Anslinger" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Senator Durbin Tells Republicans They Can't Have It Both Ways on Filibuster" by C_SPAN.

Article: "A "Jimmy Stewart Filibuster" Would Pass HR 1 & Save American Democracy" by Thom Hartmann.

Bill: "H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2021" by Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3].

Article: "61 Senators sign letter to preserve filibuster rules" by Ted Barrett.

Article: "America's anti-democratic Senate, in one number" by Ian Millhiser.

Article: "Medicare Advantage" (Medicare Part C) by Wikipedia.

Article: "What's Medicare Supplement Insurance (Medigap)" by Medicare.gov.

Article: "About Medicare Supplement (Medigap) Plans F, G, and N" by Medicare.gov.

Article: "10th Amendment" "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people"

Article: "The Medicare Part D Coverage Gap ("Donut Hole") Made Simple" by eHealthInsurance Services.

Article: "The PRO Act is a great law with a fatal flaw, but luckily, the fix is easy" by kos.

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