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I find it amusing that I agree with Welch which is amazing. I also find it amusing that the media fixes on the 700 billion bailout. That bailout is just a decoy, as the week before, the Fed pumped over 850 billion into the system without even a footnote in the paper. In the past 3 months, the Fed has pumped in over three trillion into the banking system....I'm not including what the other central banks have done. The world is awash in money, which has become a rather abstract concept as of late.

All of this worthless money is going to come home to roost at some time.

Jeff

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You're smart about money; I'm not. Explain to me what's going on (if you have the time...)

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I'll write a post this weekend over on my LJ regarding what's really going on regarding money and markets.

Jeff

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i have a very off-topic question for you that alice and i were discussing this morning-

do you think jackie kennedy would have been on birth control in the late 1940s before she was married?

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Yes, I do. She was Catholic but had a European (necessarily pragmatic) attitude toward religion.

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i didn't even think of it from the angle of religion- but that would have been a big deal! my main idea was that she wouldn't have bothered to put herself on it and/or it would have been framed as only being something you did if you had no intention of getting married any time soon/were more of a 'career girl', which i don't think she had in mind. but that would have been a very american framing of the picture, you're right. and because she was also in europe for most of the time during/between college and marriage, she definitely could have fallen into the idea there.

this all started because of a photograph of her post-college where she looks heavier than usual, by the way. alice brought up birth control, which i never would have even come up with on my own. but then again, i never even really think about it now.

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Well, of course, she wouldn't have had access to birth control pills -- they had not yet been invented. She would have used a diaphram. (Have you & Alice read Mary McCarthy's THE GROUP? If not, you should. Very well written account of what college must have been like for women of Jackie's generation.)

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My mother is one of those type of girls in THE GROUP.....now she's a candidate for a padded cell:)

McCarthy's book defined her generation.

Jeff

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Which one was your mother? Not Lacy, I hope. :-)

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I think she was the girl from Chicago. My mom went to Smith, so I'm really surprised that she ever got married:)

However, I think I read that book in about 1977, so my memories of it are foggy.

Jeff

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I'm really surprised that she ever got married:)

One of the issues I have always had with politicizing sexuality is that for many people homosexuality is more a developmental phase than a lifestyle choice. Certainly that's true of a lot of Brits as well as Seven Sisters alumna... ;-)

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duh! i can't believe neither one of us realized that- no wonder i was struggling for a horizon of expectations about the birth control pill during that period. the closest i could get was a vague memory of a teacher getting fired for distributing them at wellesley in mona lisa smile (whether this is actually that accurate for the year it was supposed to be, i have no idea! i can't even remember what year it's supposed to be- i just know it was around a decade after)

and no, although i've intended to read it for ages! references to it pop up everywhere. i'll also tell alice.

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PS -- I think we should start a Jackie Kennedy fan club on Facebook

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ohh!! i think we should too!

this probably sounds very snobbish, but i just don't think (most) other people like her for the same/right reasons that you and i do

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Fuck 'em! :-)

Start it and tell me so I can join.

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