Bald and a Bit Unbalanced

Some of the KBCU ancillary works try a little too hard to tie everything together. Doris Kearns Goodwin, the sports journalist featured in “Baseball,” was somehow ALSO a famous historian who wrote bestselling biographies of Lincoln AND Johnson? Unrealistic.

Re-posting this because I finally got to scan it in high-res.

Betty Bates is a goddamn hero.

Welcome to Wyoming, motto “We’d like to clarify that Cheyenne Mountain is in Colorado.”

“I [suspect] that we are throwing more and more of our resources, including the cream of our youth, into financial activities remote from the production of goods and services, into activities that generate high private rewards disproportionate to their social productivity. I suspect that the immense power of the computer is being harnessed to this ‘paper economy’, not to do the same transactions more economically but to balloon the quantity and variety of financial exchanges.” –James Tobin, July 1984