Category: <span>Comments made on WSJ or NYT</span>

Comment to NYT on “wealth from nothing in america” isn’t always a pleasant story.

A little fortunate by birth, opportunistic, hardworking and diligent, a self serving, or self preserving personality, to move himself forward. (American Traits.) Willing to compromise, to see opportunity, to cross an ocean by age 20 and then back. To find himself in the favor of local, then regional government. A British government. Then an American…


Freakonomics Radio / People I mostly admire – On changing ones mind – Robert Sapolsky, on free will

Commenting has become my newest semi-retirement hobby.  Sapolsky’s ability to do the science, practice the art, talk out both sides of his mouth is the living proof of life.  The more public / popular a person is at any given moment in time, cannot speak in pure honesty, it is always nuanced to that moment.  It seems to…


WSJ article – who are the people in the old photographs ?

Pictures are wonderful… let’s thank those who put the names and dates. There is almost always someone in the family who cares, some where, to carry forward. The pictures aren’t really just about the “now”, they are the line that goes back in time and carries forward. Lest you forget the world we live and…


WSJ COMMENT SECTION, Another HK comment ..

Article title: Part-time Retirement Programs. Firstly, it is a demographics issue, more retiring than coming on in. Second, easier to have the old train the new in the basics. Third, unless you are active, retirement can be a bit boring. Fourth, a little work aggravation, that you don’t have to really care about is great….


WSJ comment to a ”great resignation opinion piece.”

HK After reading the opinion piece and the comments;   4 hours ago, I wrote “it is clear there isn’t 1 problem, but several problems.”    Then 4 hours later I keep reading comments mostly of the “either / or ”  scenario.  People can be so dumb. my HT answer posted. There are multiple answers to…


My notes sent to the comments section of the WSJ and NYT.

Another article on the great job resignation and migration. I cannot help myself from throwing my 2 cents or fan a flame. NYT. …… Something funny happened to me yesterday, I felt as if I worked, like I had a job, a responsibility. 7 hours that will not come back.Being a semi-retired person awhile now,…


Comments to WSJ article – I studied and taught about retirement for 40 years. Then I retired.

HKHoward Kelley27 October, 2021Here is  what you can do in retirement, write a comment to any good WSJ, Boston Globe or NYT article …. then forget that you did so ….    Come back see the article again, start to read it, then remember that you read it, then realize you wrote a comment already. …