What the USPS 10-year plan may have to say about future rate increases, Steve Hutkins at “Save The Post Office“ The mailers were probably disappointed that the Postal Service’s new 10-year plan released yesterday, “Delivering for America,” did not reveal how big of a rate increase the Postal Service intends to make using the ;new authority ;it […] The post The USPS 10-year plan may have future rate increases appeared first on Angry Bear. [Read More...]

“…other enjoyments, of a purer, more lasting, and more exquisite nature.” A defense of Weber’s Protestant Ethic thesis from the 1940s by ;Ephraim Fischoff makes the plausible argument that critics — and many supporters — of Weber’s essay attached unwarranted causality to it, as if “Calvinism caused capitalism.” Instead, Fischoff explained: Weber’s thesis must be construed […] The post “…other enjoyments, of a purer, more lasting, and more exquisite nature.” appeared first on Angry Bear. [Read More...]

Dear Senator Joe McConnell, Joe McManchin, Joe Manchin: I write to you not as a constituent because I am not one of your constituents; but, I am confused. It is difficult to align with a politician who changes his persona various times. ;I am confused by your series of stances on the filibuster and what […] The post An Incomplete Letter appeared first on Angry Bear. [Read More...]

No doubt, they saw these decisions as moments of greatness. Or, at least hoped that history would see it that way. One, an egotistical ass who used his intellect as a cudgel with which to intimidate, to bully others. The other, simply a small minded man selected for that very smallness of mind. The one, […] The post The Danger From Within appeared first on Angry Bear. [Read More...]

The “Work Ethic” Hoax The story has been told that Martin Luther invented the doctrine of the “calling” and that John Calvin (“my friends call me Jean”) intensified it with his doctrine of predestination. Subsequent pastoral literature softened the predestination blow with the Protestant ethic that working hard and succeeding would show that you were […] The post The “Work Ethic” Hoax appeared first on Angry Bear. [Read More...]

It appears, big business is “beginning” to take exception to what Republicans are doing at the local level to suppress the right to vote by the poor, the minorities, etc. It is about time for those who can exert such pressure on state legislatures to do so in support of the right to vote. It […] The post You are either for more people voting or you want to suppress the vote. appeared first on Angry Bear. [Read More...]

Is the Biden Presidency The Final Triumph Of The Silent Generation?, Econospeak, Barkley Rosser The who? ; Never heard of them? ; Or never heard from them? More like the latter. After all they have not been called “Silent” for nothing. Yes, it seems that we alternate generations between large noisy ones and smaller quieter ones. ; The […] The post Is the Biden Presidency The Final Triumph Of The Silent Generation? appeared first on Angry Bear. [Read More...]

In the practice of Law, there is terminology used to establish whether a person or Company (also a person) is following a pattern or practice of doing something. Typically, the terminology is used in discrimination suits to determine or describe whether a defendant has a policy of doing so, even if the policy of doing […] The post Seasonal Migrant Surge At the Southern Border appeared first on Angry Bear. [Read More...]