Celebrating being “woke.”
In Odin's mailbox on this . . .
. . . the Ides of 2023 March . . .
Today is the 90th anniversary of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's birth. Among the most influential members in the history of the Supreme Court of the United States, she was born March 15, in 1933 Brooklyn, New York. She died September 18th in 2020.
Julius Caesar was reportedly assassinated on this day in 44 B.C. having been warned (by Shakespeare) to “beware the Ides of March.” The “Ides” refers to the middle day of any month in the ancient Roman calendar. The Ides are specifically the fifteenth day of the months of March, May, July, or October, and the thirteenth day of the remaining months. In Roman times, the Ides were associated with the cycle of the full moon. The assassination that was meant to save the Republic actually resulted, ultimately, in its downfall. It sparked a series of civil wars and led to Julius' heir, Octavian, the first Roman emperor, becoming Caesar Augustus.
On March 15, 1820, Maine became a state and it changed America forever.
The [recent] collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) . . . appears to be due to the same deregulation mania and rich guy hubris that led to the 2008 collapse [and] may be the final nail in the coffin of the hero worship of tech billionaires. Beyond the thin veneer of social liberalism, Silicon Valley libertarians have the same ugly views about the economy that old-school Republicans have: The government has no role in regulating business, yet taxpayers should be on the hook for bailing out rich people from their own mistakes. – Amanda Marcotte
You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather. – Pema Chödrön