I believe any 18+ resident in the US should be able to get a job that pays the prevailing living wage of their community (formula below) that includes healthcare and education reimbursement. This will help move people off unemployment and out 1/ of poverty. It will also end corporate welfare, as companies won't be able to get away with paying starvation wages that leave their workers relying on food stamps or homeless. This is the promise of America and it should be enshrined in law. Call it the new WPA, 2/

I know it looks bleak right now, but for one moment let's look toward the light at the end of the tunnel. Time travel is usually not possible, but we have a rare opportunity to see our possible future by examining how other countries faced off against COVID-19. 1/x There were a variety of strategies and measures of success and failure containing, then mitigating, and lastly self-isolating against Coronavirus. The human toll is already horrible and likely will get worse before it gets better. But it will get better. 2/x

Apparently I sleep walked through 1984 when I was, checks notes, a high schooler in Portland OR. Why didn't some one drag me to see 'Stop Making Sense' the Talking Heads concert film by Jonathan Demme. Pretty sure it would have changed my life. Maybe it's more obvious now that David Byrne is a musical genius, but I was into music then. I think I would have picked up what he was putting down. Add to that the creative construction of the concert & Demme's cinematographic language. I'm sure I would have found ...

As a relatively new convert to being a plant-based eater (aka a #vegan) I'll admit I've been dragging my feet in the final step of conversion - vegan wines and beer. But I'm now only buying wines that don't use animal products. This led to my first interesting encounter with a Sommelier this weekend. It was a BYOB affair with no corkage fee (nice!). On short notice the only vegan wine I could find was a Kaiken Malbec. Normally this wouldn't be an issue, ...

24 years ago today the Northridge #earthquake (actually 2 near simultaneous 6.9 quakes) caused death & severe damage across Southern California. I lived in Burbank at the time and clearly recall feeling powerless against the forces of nature. #northridge There's little warning for a quake (just enough to duck under a desk if you have a warning system like they do in Japan) and the damage is done almost all at once. So we establish tougher building codes, do drills, and train first responders.