Why The Washington Gridlock?
There are an increasing number of politicians, columnists, pundits and ordinary citizens who are indignant over the inability of the two parties to come together on solutions for the countries most pressing problems. The deficit, health care, social security, unemployment, or if you like, “the time of day.” They cannot seem to find agreement. I have lived long enough to remember periods of time when Republicans sat down with Democrats and found solutions to any number of pressing social and economic problems. I have been asking myself, what has caused the change?
If I go all the way to the 1930’s there was fierce resistance to much New Deal legislation but there also were Republicans who would sit down and work out solutions with the Democrats. That spirit lasted up until the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Then slowly but surely the two parties seem to degenerate into anything the other guys propose we are against. So what does one thing have to do with the other?
As long as there was a threat to the system of Capitalism the common good required that both parties react in the best interest of the system. This is best exemplified during Depression when there was not only the threat of the socialism from afar but from a local vigorous pro socialist movement within the country. Wether it was real or not the ruling class, capitalists perceived it as such. Here I am reminded of a trip I took to Sweden in the late fifties.
In the course of that trip I met the Swedish Government economist, Mr. Meisner. After an extended visit I made to a variety of workplace experiments around Sweden we met for dinner in the Old Town of Stockholm at the Guildener Frieden. (I mention this because at a later date I would have the very rare opportunity to attend a meeting of the Bellman’s Society at the same place” Oh I have to write about that some other time.) One observation I made to Meisner was, “I don’t understand why the government here is so quick to fulfill any demand workers make even before they are able to raise up a real honest campaign? Your depriving them of their sense of winning something as a result of their demand.” His response helps supports my notion of capitalist insecurity.
Meisner said, “Listen we live a very few kilometers away from the Russian border. We know that our workers are very interested in the experiment going on there. Our owners of industry have figured out, “that it is better to compromise on socio economic issues than have social unrest leading to a revolution.” There you have it. It is far better to make concessions to workers demands than risk social unrest. What we had in the 1930’s was social unrest on a grand scale and that gave birth to the New Deal.
With the collapse of the Soviet Union and with it the demoralization of the left especially in the US there is no one to organize any social unrest. Oh yes there is the Internet and all these voices, including mine yapping away out here but I don’t believe that registers as social unrest. On the contrary I believe it works against it as people feel like they have made the protest with a one sentence comment like “your full of bullshit” so there I said it and that takes care of my protest. Sorry but that is not the same as getting thousands of citizens into the streets or into Washington to protest unemployment. And boy does the ruling class ever know that.
Just look at the contrast in the way the Congress jumped into save the Wall Street bank crowd compared to the home foreclosure crisis. The first one had to do, as they said, “to save the banking system,” integral to the functioning of capitalism. The second had to do with poor citizen, suckers who were coaxed, seduced into buying homes they couldn’t afford anymore than me trying to ice dance with my wife at the Olympics.
So there it is. I believe that the two old parties of capitalism see no urgent reason for them to come together to salvage the system. Primarily because there is no movement out there that in any way can be described as threat to the existing order of things. Quiet the contrary everyone including the critics are on board to keep the old capitalist train just running on. Hence no need to heed President Obama’s search for “Lets all work together” stuff. It ain’t a never gonna happen. Cause the system is doing just fine So why pray tell why do we need to make concessions?
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Monday, February 22, 2010
Rumination on a Pharmicological Nuclear Test
Yes, thats where I was supposed to be today at the Cardiology department of Stony Brook Hospital. Didn’t make it as I am not feeling well enough to do the 12 hour no eating routine and running the treadmill. My Cardiologist thinks I may have some more blockages that are hindering my blood flow. Blood flow always interested me as I think of the heart simply as a pump. Having worked in a Powerhouse substation where pumps are critical to the operation of boilers, turbines etc. The human heart “pump” puts out 74 gallons an hour. Or 1776 gallons a day. You can keep multiplying that out for a year a lifetime etc. What an amazing organ.
Wow that’s far more than the main Worthington pumps were doing in the old sub-station. It is simply hard for me to believe that this little fist sized organ can do that kind of work. No wonder it gets tired. Mine has been doing that for 93 years. I am really sorry for this old heart. As reluctant as I am to be nuked I’m letting my doctor friends see if it overworking because of stuffed up pipes. I do hate doing this and I do keep putting it off. Eventually it will happen.
Same kind of blockage happened with the Powerhouse pipes leading to the steam boilers. They got corroded with minerals and before you knew it the old pumps were just giving up because of the back-pressure from the blocked pipes. A few years ago thats what they found with my pump. They opened up the blockage with a small metallic net called a “stint.’ Dr.'s think I may need another one.
All of this is just an opportunity to write about how technology has taken over our lives. Medical care is just one example. My lower back surgeries required numerous MRI’s X-ray's Cat-scans etc, I feel certain that without these interventions I probably wouldn’t be here, or at best I would be severely handicapped.
I live with this terrible ambivalence toward the Industrial Revolution. That was the birthplace of our technological revolution. It was also the birthplace of the emergence of the great middle class. All of us could have our very own washing machines, vacuum cleaners, homes, cars, boats, etc etc. Then inexorably it lead to the Electronic Revolution. That's where we are now. It is changing how we relate to one another, invades our privacy, our credit cards are totally revealing what we buy and where. And yes it helps doctors diagnose what is going inside of us. Probably most important, it is causing us to use up all the natural resources of our planet. (I will do a separate blog on how we are using up the planet.) Therein lies the dilemma.
I have a real nostalgia for what we have lost in how humans interact with each other. How we made things by hand. ie. before all tools got electrified. Where I grew up in the North Bronx the neighborhood seemed to be one big extended family. Having lost my mother at a young age it was quiet normal for me to be in a neighbors house having lunch or having some nice Italian women sewing my torn pants.
My grandchildren mostly are busy texmessaging and I don’t have the slightest idea how they relate to each other on a face to face basis. I also don’t know how this new generation would survive with out all the goodies brought to us via High Tech. I suppose I am just revealing the ambivalence of old age. For that I have no apologies. My best RS
Wow that’s far more than the main Worthington pumps were doing in the old sub-station. It is simply hard for me to believe that this little fist sized organ can do that kind of work. No wonder it gets tired. Mine has been doing that for 93 years. I am really sorry for this old heart. As reluctant as I am to be nuked I’m letting my doctor friends see if it overworking because of stuffed up pipes. I do hate doing this and I do keep putting it off. Eventually it will happen.
Same kind of blockage happened with the Powerhouse pipes leading to the steam boilers. They got corroded with minerals and before you knew it the old pumps were just giving up because of the back-pressure from the blocked pipes. A few years ago thats what they found with my pump. They opened up the blockage with a small metallic net called a “stint.’ Dr.'s think I may need another one.
All of this is just an opportunity to write about how technology has taken over our lives. Medical care is just one example. My lower back surgeries required numerous MRI’s X-ray's Cat-scans etc, I feel certain that without these interventions I probably wouldn’t be here, or at best I would be severely handicapped.
I live with this terrible ambivalence toward the Industrial Revolution. That was the birthplace of our technological revolution. It was also the birthplace of the emergence of the great middle class. All of us could have our very own washing machines, vacuum cleaners, homes, cars, boats, etc etc. Then inexorably it lead to the Electronic Revolution. That's where we are now. It is changing how we relate to one another, invades our privacy, our credit cards are totally revealing what we buy and where. And yes it helps doctors diagnose what is going inside of us. Probably most important, it is causing us to use up all the natural resources of our planet. (I will do a separate blog on how we are using up the planet.) Therein lies the dilemma.
I have a real nostalgia for what we have lost in how humans interact with each other. How we made things by hand. ie. before all tools got electrified. Where I grew up in the North Bronx the neighborhood seemed to be one big extended family. Having lost my mother at a young age it was quiet normal for me to be in a neighbors house having lunch or having some nice Italian women sewing my torn pants.
My grandchildren mostly are busy texmessaging and I don’t have the slightest idea how they relate to each other on a face to face basis. I also don’t know how this new generation would survive with out all the goodies brought to us via High Tech. I suppose I am just revealing the ambivalence of old age. For that I have no apologies. My best RS
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Women, Majority In Workforce
What Are Men to do?
Yupp, it happened. The Labor Department finally announced it. Women have surpassed men in the workforce. That means there are more women employed than men. Its probably the first time that has ever happened and the consequences will be far reaching. Back in 1977, I wrote an article in the Harvard Business Review, “Three Men Two Women on a Raft” It became a Reprint best seller. In it I suggested that men were not going to rollover and let women take the power jobs in business or industry. I think I proved right on that score. I did not give enough weight to how the growing white collarization of the work force would result in women outnumbering men at workplace.
Three major factors are at work here. First was the increasingly rapid movement of manufacturing jobs overseas. Second as factory jobs moved out service jobs moved in. The finance, service, retail, education and medical care are now a majority in our labor market. Those are areas that women have traditionally dominated. It was through many of the unionized jobs in manufacture that the dreams of the American middle class became real. Without some very serious government intervention they will be gone forever. Three,185 women now graduate from college to every 100 men. This simply means that women were far more prepared for the conversion from manufacturing to service. Also means we need to encourage men to go on to college.
The implications of the this change will have the most far reaching effects on male female relationships, family life, the community most everything. We are already know that the present unemployment crisis has predominately effected men as their wives continue to work while they write resumes and try to get retrained. There are also reports of increased alcohol and drug use among discouraged men as well as physical abuse of wives and children. May just be the guys acting out their frustrations?
I do remember in my own work history when I moved from the factory floor to the office. It took me quiet a while to try and understand what all that paper shuffling was about? At the end of the day I was always trying to figure out just what did we produce? Yes, we created production schedules, we planned the work and did the logistics of needed materials etc. It was all necessary but it was not the same as actually building something on the shop floor and see it as part of a finished product.
I have often stood at the end of an automobile assembly line and watch a guy jump into a brand new car and drive it off the line into the parking lot. It always seemed absolutely magical to watch those thousands of parts be assembled in a couple of hours into a running machine. I know from my conversations with guys on the line they held the very same emotions. Now so many of them have been dumped out while their wives continue to work.
You don’t have to be Dr. Phil to figure out this is going to be a source of lots of brand new social problems. Keep in mind that for most of my adult life, like most men, I was the primary breadwinner.That meant I had a clear amount of authority within the family. That authority is now coming to an end. Many men are going to suffer severe trauma as it begins to register that it is the wife who might now take over the role of “breadwinner,” Just thinking about it gives me pause as to what might lie up ahead.
I have lived with and am now married to a professional women. I would not have had it any different. I need to add that in the fourth decade of my life I decided I had to get a college degree. Did that and went on to graduate degrees as well. I thought this was essential if I was to make it in the service world. It was that. It was also critical to my personal relationships. At times I had to work hard at it but I managed to stay engaged to very smart women including Kate my wife.
Okay, it’s not just that I have been able to understand the language of the professional but-but I know how to fix the dripping faucet, clear out a stopped up toilet, change a busted light switch, jump start the car, etc. All those blue collar things I know now come in handy as part of my role in the new relationship. I might advise men who are faced with relationships to the new women to of course go learn more about professional knowledge but also sharpen your Mr. fixit skills. Heck, that least we can do to keep up with the tidal wave of change that’s on the way. (Kate says “she couldn’t agree more.”)
Thanks Kate N.H.W.Y.
Yupp, it happened. The Labor Department finally announced it. Women have surpassed men in the workforce. That means there are more women employed than men. Its probably the first time that has ever happened and the consequences will be far reaching. Back in 1977, I wrote an article in the Harvard Business Review, “Three Men Two Women on a Raft” It became a Reprint best seller. In it I suggested that men were not going to rollover and let women take the power jobs in business or industry. I think I proved right on that score. I did not give enough weight to how the growing white collarization of the work force would result in women outnumbering men at workplace.
Three major factors are at work here. First was the increasingly rapid movement of manufacturing jobs overseas. Second as factory jobs moved out service jobs moved in. The finance, service, retail, education and medical care are now a majority in our labor market. Those are areas that women have traditionally dominated. It was through many of the unionized jobs in manufacture that the dreams of the American middle class became real. Without some very serious government intervention they will be gone forever. Three,185 women now graduate from college to every 100 men. This simply means that women were far more prepared for the conversion from manufacturing to service. Also means we need to encourage men to go on to college.
The implications of the this change will have the most far reaching effects on male female relationships, family life, the community most everything. We are already know that the present unemployment crisis has predominately effected men as their wives continue to work while they write resumes and try to get retrained. There are also reports of increased alcohol and drug use among discouraged men as well as physical abuse of wives and children. May just be the guys acting out their frustrations?
I do remember in my own work history when I moved from the factory floor to the office. It took me quiet a while to try and understand what all that paper shuffling was about? At the end of the day I was always trying to figure out just what did we produce? Yes, we created production schedules, we planned the work and did the logistics of needed materials etc. It was all necessary but it was not the same as actually building something on the shop floor and see it as part of a finished product.
I have often stood at the end of an automobile assembly line and watch a guy jump into a brand new car and drive it off the line into the parking lot. It always seemed absolutely magical to watch those thousands of parts be assembled in a couple of hours into a running machine. I know from my conversations with guys on the line they held the very same emotions. Now so many of them have been dumped out while their wives continue to work.
You don’t have to be Dr. Phil to figure out this is going to be a source of lots of brand new social problems. Keep in mind that for most of my adult life, like most men, I was the primary breadwinner.That meant I had a clear amount of authority within the family. That authority is now coming to an end. Many men are going to suffer severe trauma as it begins to register that it is the wife who might now take over the role of “breadwinner,” Just thinking about it gives me pause as to what might lie up ahead.
I have lived with and am now married to a professional women. I would not have had it any different. I need to add that in the fourth decade of my life I decided I had to get a college degree. Did that and went on to graduate degrees as well. I thought this was essential if I was to make it in the service world. It was that. It was also critical to my personal relationships. At times I had to work hard at it but I managed to stay engaged to very smart women including Kate my wife.
Okay, it’s not just that I have been able to understand the language of the professional but-but I know how to fix the dripping faucet, clear out a stopped up toilet, change a busted light switch, jump start the car, etc. All those blue collar things I know now come in handy as part of my role in the new relationship. I might advise men who are faced with relationships to the new women to of course go learn more about professional knowledge but also sharpen your Mr. fixit skills. Heck, that least we can do to keep up with the tidal wave of change that’s on the way. (Kate says “she couldn’t agree more.”)
Thanks Kate N.H.W.Y.
Saturday, February 6, 2010
How'd We Get Here?
All of a sudden we have this hysterical Republican pandemic of concern over this terrible National Debt that we are bequeathing to our children and their children's children. And “Oh my God how can we do this?” Okay before you break into a critical state of tears over you children or great grandchildren, even I got one, we need to review how we got here? Who actually spent us into this cursed debt? I know the Peterson Institute folks like us to think that it’s the Democrats who are the “big spenders} but as the following fact of life graph will tell you, “That just aint true.”
Okay, you got this graph clearly in your head. Now keep it there while I try to explain what is going on here. During the Bush years the policy was destroy the whole fabric of social programs by simply having no money to pay for them That included Social Security. Remember Bush wanting to privatize it so we all could make a lot more money in the stock market? Wow, imagine if they had been successful? I’d be back working in a machine shop because my S.S. check wouldn’t pay my electric bill. So as my friend Elaine explained it, “Bush is pushing the National Debt toward bankruptcy to make absolutely sure there will be no future money for social programs.” Was she ever right on. By the way if all the money that has been taken out of the SS Trust fund was returned we would be okay until 2040
Where does that leave us now? Yes we have a very big debt but we should not let it stop us from going ahead with programs that are essential to helping the economy get back on it feet. Health Care is a good case in point. Yes it will cost us but it will also come as a big tax break for industry as it will put them on an even footing with all those countries that have single payer systems. We will be more able to compete and more important it will bring back jobs in manufacturing. As I wrote in a previous blog, “if we are unable to do that goodbye to our middle class.”
The same I would argue for education. If we prove unable to continue to master technology then China is going to be the worlds economic dynamo and we are going to be second class, “also rans.” This means that we have got to press Obama to start a real fight for what he ran on. He can start by exposing the misrepresentation of facts that his hoped for friends across the aisle have been slugging at him while he continues dreaming that he is going to somehow seduce them to work things out.
Mr. President it ain’t never gonna happen cause they hate you and everything you are trying to stand for. Can I again quote Mr. Kristol the senior right wing Guru’s advice to Republicans, “JUST KILL IT,” That’s their strategy and time is running out for you and the Dems to wake up and start putting up a fight for what you campaigned for or wish yourselves goodbye comes November 2010 and yes the same month 2012.
Pass the health care bill through “conciliation,”Sure they will scream “Unfair” unscrupulous” and “Liar.” No matter. Let em yell. Just think if the shoe was on the other foot what would they do? You betcha, They’d just pass it and “the devil take the hindmost.”
Okay Mr. President it’s late but I hope not to late to start to start a fight. If you do you will wake up all those new folks you brought along to elect you. They will wake up and be with you once they smell a real fight for what you told them you would do.
PS Look again at that Debt graph up top and don’t forget it,
Okay, you got this graph clearly in your head. Now keep it there while I try to explain what is going on here. During the Bush years the policy was destroy the whole fabric of social programs by simply having no money to pay for them That included Social Security. Remember Bush wanting to privatize it so we all could make a lot more money in the stock market? Wow, imagine if they had been successful? I’d be back working in a machine shop because my S.S. check wouldn’t pay my electric bill. So as my friend Elaine explained it, “Bush is pushing the National Debt toward bankruptcy to make absolutely sure there will be no future money for social programs.” Was she ever right on. By the way if all the money that has been taken out of the SS Trust fund was returned we would be okay until 2040
Where does that leave us now? Yes we have a very big debt but we should not let it stop us from going ahead with programs that are essential to helping the economy get back on it feet. Health Care is a good case in point. Yes it will cost us but it will also come as a big tax break for industry as it will put them on an even footing with all those countries that have single payer systems. We will be more able to compete and more important it will bring back jobs in manufacturing. As I wrote in a previous blog, “if we are unable to do that goodbye to our middle class.”
The same I would argue for education. If we prove unable to continue to master technology then China is going to be the worlds economic dynamo and we are going to be second class, “also rans.” This means that we have got to press Obama to start a real fight for what he ran on. He can start by exposing the misrepresentation of facts that his hoped for friends across the aisle have been slugging at him while he continues dreaming that he is going to somehow seduce them to work things out.
Mr. President it ain’t never gonna happen cause they hate you and everything you are trying to stand for. Can I again quote Mr. Kristol the senior right wing Guru’s advice to Republicans, “JUST KILL IT,” That’s their strategy and time is running out for you and the Dems to wake up and start putting up a fight for what you campaigned for or wish yourselves goodbye comes November 2010 and yes the same month 2012.
Pass the health care bill through “conciliation,”Sure they will scream “Unfair” unscrupulous” and “Liar.” No matter. Let em yell. Just think if the shoe was on the other foot what would they do? You betcha, They’d just pass it and “the devil take the hindmost.”
Okay Mr. President it’s late but I hope not to late to start to start a fight. If you do you will wake up all those new folks you brought along to elect you. They will wake up and be with you once they smell a real fight for what you told them you would do.
PS Look again at that Debt graph up top and don’t forget it,
Monday, February 1, 2010
Conti's Pastry
I was planning to do a blog on the jobs problem but then this piece in this mornings NY Tmes jumped up at me. So the jobs piece will have to wait.
There it is in today's February 1, 2010 Times Conti’s Pastry shop has survived. Hooray! The article is about a section of the north Bronx known as Van Nest. My family had moved there some time around 1923. We lived on Morris Park Avenue about 3 blocks from PS 34 where I went to school. The Times article is about the lack of any banking facility in that neighborhood forcing people to go long distances to simply cash a check. Yes there are check cashing stores that charge a hefty percentage to simply cash a check. According to the article it remains a place of “houses with front porches.” Yup, that's how I remember it.
What caught my eye was a reference to “Conti’s Pastry shop” where local Italian men were still gathering to talk over coffee and a pastry. I remember the pastry shop as a stop over on my way to PS 34. In the morning on my way to school there was a line of horse and wagons from Sheffield Farms that had been delivering milk since 3AM to many of the private homes that covered the area. Back in 1926 the milkmen were inside Conti’s having their breakfast. The horses had their feedbags on. The horses would have trouble getting at the feed down at the bottom of the bag. Their solution was to keep bucking their heads up and down hoping to catch some of the bottom feed. That was not a good solution. They would lose most of the feed as it ended up outside the bag down on the ground where the sparrows had their feast. One of the milkmen suggested that if I held the bag up for the horses to get that bottom feed there might just be a pastry in it for me.
That started my career as “the horse feeder,” that’s what the kids began to call me. In order to insure my new found position I would get to school pretty early to make sure that I would have time for my feed patrol and my pastry. Pretty soon the horses began to recognize me a block away and would start a regular chorus of stomping and braying and that sent me running to carry out my feed duty. It was the beginning of a long love affair with horses. My reward, that started out as a pastry would become the appreciation that the horses showed me. It just made me feel good to have the chance to be of help to these giant creatures who befriended a 9 year old boy.
As I read the Times piece I couldn’t help but wonder, why is it so important to us humans to have places in our lives that we can remember as part of our growing up time? Is it an assurance that there are some things in our constantly changing world that we can count on as unchanging? Yes, the neighborhood of Van Nest has changed form Italian to Latino and Asian yet, Ruggeiro’s Funeral Home is still there as is Cont’s. I’m certain that St. Domenicks Catholic church, where I went to confession with my Italian friends, who just didn’t want me to feel left out, is also still there. I used to wonder what my atheist father would have said if he knew about it?
Ernest Hemingway had a life long concern about finding places he could return to that hadn’t changed in his lifetime. A home in Cuba, a Bar in Key West and the Sawtooth Mountains in Idaho, It was in those mountains that he decided to go and end his life. Did he just want to be in a place that he could count on would always be as he first experienced it? Maybe thats what we humans want or need? Something, someplace that, helped define us, that we can depend on as not being washed away by the winds of time? Just knowing that Conti’s pastry shop is where it was when I was 9 years old makes me feel good. Exactly why I can’t tell you. But no matter there it is.
There it is in today's February 1, 2010 Times Conti’s Pastry shop has survived. Hooray! The article is about a section of the north Bronx known as Van Nest. My family had moved there some time around 1923. We lived on Morris Park Avenue about 3 blocks from PS 34 where I went to school. The Times article is about the lack of any banking facility in that neighborhood forcing people to go long distances to simply cash a check. Yes there are check cashing stores that charge a hefty percentage to simply cash a check. According to the article it remains a place of “houses with front porches.” Yup, that's how I remember it.
What caught my eye was a reference to “Conti’s Pastry shop” where local Italian men were still gathering to talk over coffee and a pastry. I remember the pastry shop as a stop over on my way to PS 34. In the morning on my way to school there was a line of horse and wagons from Sheffield Farms that had been delivering milk since 3AM to many of the private homes that covered the area. Back in 1926 the milkmen were inside Conti’s having their breakfast. The horses had their feedbags on. The horses would have trouble getting at the feed down at the bottom of the bag. Their solution was to keep bucking their heads up and down hoping to catch some of the bottom feed. That was not a good solution. They would lose most of the feed as it ended up outside the bag down on the ground where the sparrows had their feast. One of the milkmen suggested that if I held the bag up for the horses to get that bottom feed there might just be a pastry in it for me.
That started my career as “the horse feeder,” that’s what the kids began to call me. In order to insure my new found position I would get to school pretty early to make sure that I would have time for my feed patrol and my pastry. Pretty soon the horses began to recognize me a block away and would start a regular chorus of stomping and braying and that sent me running to carry out my feed duty. It was the beginning of a long love affair with horses. My reward, that started out as a pastry would become the appreciation that the horses showed me. It just made me feel good to have the chance to be of help to these giant creatures who befriended a 9 year old boy.
As I read the Times piece I couldn’t help but wonder, why is it so important to us humans to have places in our lives that we can remember as part of our growing up time? Is it an assurance that there are some things in our constantly changing world that we can count on as unchanging? Yes, the neighborhood of Van Nest has changed form Italian to Latino and Asian yet, Ruggeiro’s Funeral Home is still there as is Cont’s. I’m certain that St. Domenicks Catholic church, where I went to confession with my Italian friends, who just didn’t want me to feel left out, is also still there. I used to wonder what my atheist father would have said if he knew about it?
Ernest Hemingway had a life long concern about finding places he could return to that hadn’t changed in his lifetime. A home in Cuba, a Bar in Key West and the Sawtooth Mountains in Idaho, It was in those mountains that he decided to go and end his life. Did he just want to be in a place that he could count on would always be as he first experienced it? Maybe thats what we humans want or need? Something, someplace that, helped define us, that we can depend on as not being washed away by the winds of time? Just knowing that Conti’s pastry shop is where it was when I was 9 years old makes me feel good. Exactly why I can’t tell you. But no matter there it is.
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