The Offline Report

From the Wall Street Journal's article on Robert Woodson : Mr. Woodson has also taken note of a spate of 10 teen suicides, many committed on train tracks, that shook my hometown of Palo Alto between 2009 and 2015. He likens that tragedy to the epidemic of murders in many U.S. cities. “If you devalue your life, you’ll either take your own, or you’ll take someone else’s,” Mr. Woodson says. “But they’re different sides of the same coin.” In both cases, young people “are dying in acts of self-hatred.” Robert Woodson, a self-proclaimed conservative who sounds apolitical to today's reader, is stepping down from his leadership of The Woodson Center. He also worked with Alliance of Concerned Men to diffuse gang violence. He partnered in the 1980s with an enterprising single mother of five named Kimi Gray to bring tenant stakeholders into the public housing management circles, resulting in President Reagan signing public housing reform. ------------------------------------------- Fu

Oct. 27, 2021 "I note with selfish interest that income inequality, a topic that has generated considerable interest of late, was not on the menu at Aspen, just as it wasn’t on the menu at the latest World Economic Forum."    newrepublic.com   🐤 Oct 26, 2021 Amnesty International Exits Hong Kong, Citing National Security Law | Human-rights group says authorities’ crackdown on dissent makes maintaining operations in city unworkable:     wsj.com Google CEO Sundar Pichai says 3 days in the office and 2 at home is a good 'balance' between in-person collaboration and time off from the commute:     businessinsider.com ‘Bernanke,’ high fees and that defense deal with Facebook: 8 takeaways from the new filing in Google lawsuit:     protocol.com Oct. 25, 2021 Google allegedly worked with Facebook to undermine Apple's push for user privacy:     businessinsider.com Oct. 24, 2021 "But others assert that public health’s attempts at being apolitical