As blue chips turn into penny stocks, Wall Street seems less like a symbol of America's macho capitalism and more like that famous Jane Austen character Mrs. Bennet, a flibbertigibbet always anxious about getting richer and her 'poor nerves.'
Maureen DowdObama also allowed Hillary supporters to insert an absurd statement into the platform suggesting that media sexism spurred her loss and that โdemeaning portrayals of women ... dampen the dreams of our daughters.โ ... It would have been better to put this language in the platform: โA woman who wildly mismanages and bankrupts a quarter-of-a-billion-dollar campaign operation, and then blames sexism in society, will dampen the dreams of our daughters.โ
Maureen DowdThe sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one thing โ or one person โ at a time.
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