But does the 60 days forbearance count toward the total amount of forbearance you’re allowed over the life of the loan? I’ve had to take a forbearance a couple times over the years and there is a limit. I wouldn’t put it past Trump to act like he’s giving us something we already have.

After 9/11 we were told to go shopping or the terrorists win. So the last time we had a national crisis, we were made to believe our consumerism and materialism was the solution. And now we have another crisis. Of course we’re going to act this way. People need to be led. Unfortunately, in times of real crisis, we’ve…

You know one type of anxiety I’m not seeing get any coverage: 9/11 PTSD. I lived in NYC then and worked in Times Square. 18 years and I never made a big deal about that day. Yesterday, I was in a team meeting with coworkers (I live in Maine now) about the impending closing of our office and said “The only thing I can…

Would that it were so. I work in marketing in the corporate services industry and the realization by the partners that they’re going to make less money has them already looking around for ways to trim. My boss told my team that we need to use this time to make Marketing indispensable because our jobs may be on the…

Trump is horrible, but there’s lots of blame to go around. I’d like to put some on George W. Bush. The last time the US was presented with a test even close to this level, rather than ask Americans to sacrifice even a little, we were told to go shopping, to indulge our consumer urges, and maintain our unexamined…

They told him his grandpa went to live on a farm upstate and he thinks Pappy Friedrich is still there. I hope gramps gets to play with my dog who went to live there in 1987.

Who paraphrased it from a longer quote from Theodore Parker.

The iPhone has 3 cameras and Night Vision now. Disney+ means I can go right from watching a Star Wars movie to a Marvel movie without changing apps. DoorDash will bring me food from any restaurant in my area, including the ones that didn’t use to deliver. Siri lets me send text messages without having to type and to…

I’m a far Left socialist, but I’m also a pragmatist. None of the candidates is progressive enough by my standards, but I also realize someone like me would never be elected. Warren represents enough of a progressive platform that I think she could have moved this country a little bit forward. Not enough, but I’ll take…

Obama liked to use the quote: “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” I don’t think this is true. I think the arc of the universe bends towards comfort. The one constant you can say about human civilization is that it’s always more comfortable to be alive today than it was yesterday. And…

Elizabeth Warren: She understood this election and this country has to be more than just “Not Trump.” She had ambitious ideas and detailed plans that don’t fit well in a sound byte and yet was still one of the best speakers and debaters in the bunch. She had experience and education and compassion. She had my vote…

He’s the son of a prominent Florida politician and businessman. I would bet money “Do you know who my father is?” was a very common question coming from the mouth of young Matt Gaetz.

You’re message is rational, sensible, specific, and coherent. The American people will never buy it. Maybe try flapping your arms in the air like Kermit the Frog, or perhaps a slogan on a hat.

I’ve been hearing lately how career people at CDC/NIH/etc. who are asked to speak about the virus have figured out that the key to Trump is to praise him and then, while he’s busy patting himself on the back, tell people what they really need to know because he won’t notice you’re contradicting everything he just said.…

With an open carry AR-15 slung across their shoulder and silver bullion coins in their pockets.

I remember about 10 years ago a “group of NASA employees” endorsed a statement denying climate change. Of course, when you looked at the actual list, it was all administrative support staff, facilities management, and technicians. So, basically secretaries, janitors, and mechanics, not climate scientists. But the…

I think the problem is the extreme to the point of absurd pervasiveness of the coverage. Scrolling through my Feedly, all my news sites have multiple articles a day about COVID-19, which is understandable because this is a worldwide public health issue. But the problem is that all my entertainment and other trivial new…

I don’t necessarily agree that it’s better, but the common argument I’ve seen is that Gremlins 2 is a satiric deconstruction of Gremlins 1. Dante was philosophically opposed to making a sequel but forced somehow by the studio to make it. So he decided to give a big middle-finger to the studio and infuse the film with…

When I taught college around 2009-2015, I had many, many freshman assure me that “racism isn’t really a thing with our generation.” Most of them would be the age of the scumbags in that picture when it was taken.

I had a friend years ago who decided it was ok to use “fag” because he was “using it the way Eminem uses it, not as a homophobic thing.” He came to visit me in NYC and as we’re getting out of the subway in Chelsea I gently suggest “Can you try to refrain from tossing around the word ‘fag’ while we’re here? There are a…