MARRIAGE

• Why do men die before their wives? They want to.

• What is the punishment for bigamy? Two mothers-in-law.

• A man ran a classified ad: "Wife wanted". Next day he got 100 letters. All said: "Take mine."

• First guy (proudly): "My wife's an angel!"  Second guy: "You're lucky, mine's still alive."

• If it weren't for marriage, men would go through life thinking they had no faults.

• A boy asked his father how much it cost to get married. "I don't know, I'm still paying," he said.

• How to Impress a Woman: Wine her, Dine her, Call her, Hug her,
  Support her,, Compliment her, Smile at her, Listen to her, Laugh with her, Cry with her, Romance her, Believe in her, Cuddle with her, Shop with her, Give her jewelry, Buy her flowers,  Hold her hand, Write love letters to her, Go to the end of the Earth and back again for her.
  How to impress a man: Show up naked. Bring food..

• Three old men are discussing their sex lives. The Italian man says, "Last week, my wife and I had great sex. I rubbed her body all over with olive oil, we made passionate love, and she screamed for 5 minutes at the end."  The Frenchman boasts, "Last week when my wife and I had sex, I rubbed her body all over with butter. We then made passionate love and she screamed for 15 minutes." The old Jewish man says, "Well, last week my wife and I had sex too. I rubbed  her body all over with chicken schmaltz (kosher chicken fat), we made love, and she screamed for 6 hours." The Italian and Frenchman were stunned. They replied, "What could you have  possibly done to make your wife scream for 6 hours? >"I wiped my hands on the drapes."

• "OLD" IS WHEN 
• Your sweetie says, "Let's go upstairs and make love," and you answer, "Pick one; I can't do both!"
• Friends compliment you on your new alligator shoes and you're barefoot
• A woman catches your eye and your pacemaker opens the garage door.
• Going braless pulls all the wrinkles out of your face.
• "Getting lucky" means you find your car in the parking lot.
  An "all nighter" means not getting up to use the bathroom.

 I Which economic system serves the most people? 

On one side of the economic debate are those who believe in largely unfettered markets, in which companies are allowed to agglomerate market power or pollute or exploit. They believe firms should maximize shareholder value, doing whatever they can get away with, because bigger profits serve the common good.

The most famous 20th-century proponents of this low-tax/low-regulation shareholder-centric economy, often referred to as neoliberalism, are Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek. These Nobel Prize-winning economists took the idea beyond the economy, claiming this kind of economic system was necessary to achieve political freedom.

They worried about the growth of government in the aftermath of the Great Depression, when, under the influence of John Maynard Keynes, the state was taking on new responsibilities to stabilize the economy. In “Capitalism and Freedom,” Friedman argued that “free markets” were indispensable to ensure political freedom. In Hayek’s words, government overreach would lead us down “The Road to Serfdom.”

We’ve now had four decades of the neoliberal “experiment,” beginning with Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. The results are clear. Neoliberalism expanded the freedom of corporations and billionaires to do as they will and amass huge fortunes, but it also exacted a steep price: the well-being and freedom of the rest of society.

Neoliberals’ political analysis was even worse than their economics, with perhaps even graver consequences. Friedman and his acolytes failed to understand an essential feature of freedom: that there are two kinds, positive and negative; freedom to do and freedom from harm. “Free markets” alone fail to provide economic stability or security against the economic vagaries they create, let alone allow large fractions of the population to live up to their potential. Government is needed to deliver both. In doing so, government expands freedom in multiple ways.

 Discontent festers in places facing unaddressed economic stresses, where people feel a loss of control over their destinies; where too little is done to address unemployment, economic insecurity and inequality. 

 There are trade-offs --the bread and butter of economics. The climate crisis shows that we have not gone far enough in regulating pollution; giving more freedom to corporations to pollute reduces the freedom of the rest of us to live a healthy life. Freeing bankers from what they claimed to be excessively burdensome regulations put the rest of us at risk of a downturn potentially as bad as the Great Depression of the 1930s when the banking system imploded in 2008. This forced society to provide banks hundreds of billions of dollars in the largest bailout ever. The rest of society faced a reduction in their freedoms in so many ways — including the freedom from the fear of losing one’s house, one’s job and, with that, one’s health insurance. 

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• The best leaders are direct, committed, responsive, open to new ideas, creative, resourceful and patient. They can: 

• Execute fundamentals fast and well.

• Communicate and motivate.

• Solve problems. Manage time

• Create a vision with an organized approach

• Tell others what they want and expect from them

• Be conservative and comfortable in taking risks

• Be persuasive and enthusiastic to attract followers

• Exercise emotional self-restraint 

• Set deadlines for action and give partners feedback

• Hold themselves and others accountable for performance

• Be team players for needs and interests of others

• Seek common ground with others' ideas and opinions

• Try to be at ease in any situation

• Be confident by keeping things in proper perspective