Comments for Dan McGinley

Comment on THE LONG GOOD-BYE by Dan McGinley

Dan McGinley — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:03:39 +0000

Thanks my friend. I’m off to deliver the mail (7:00 am here in Connecticut), but will check-in this eve. Your opinions and observations are greatly appreciated.

Comment on THE LONG GOOD-BYE by gallowaygrave

gallowaygrave — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 06:47:27 +0000

I thought we’d better open a new column for further discussion!

Comment on THE LONG GOOD-BYE by Dan

Dan — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:26:46 +0000

I can’t help thinking of that Cat Stevens song, “Where Will the Children Play”? You’re so right . . . and this rural lttle hill town should keep it blissful for quite some time, I hope!

Comment on THE LONG GOOD-BYE by gallowaygrave

gallowaygrave — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:25:38 +0000

Perhaps I should have thought before dropping my outline onto a good couple with a child? You, and many others, must be understandably afraid for your kids and their future. All you can do is teach them what you believe to be the right way to do things, then let ‘em go to do, well, whatever they want. I doubt that parenting has ever been easy but in this age of instant mass media awareness of the ‘orrible fings in life, many still quite rare events, are too well known… a degree of ignorance can be bliss!

Comment on THE LONG GOOD-BYE by Dan

Dan — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:16:28 +0000

Thanks so much, Don. I’ll be around, reading and commenting when I can. Reading your posts are better than hunting through book stores for anything even half as good!

Comment on THE LONG GOOD-BYE by don mills

don mills — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:26:38 +0000

Dan,

So sorry to see you go but – like others – I fully understand why. You have my email address so if you start up again please let me know. Good luck with the new career opportunity (I’d cross my fingers too but the damned arthritis is acting up. I’ll send good thoughts instead).

All the best!

Don

p.s. No fish. Damn

p.s.s. You’re right of course. I’m actually a 40 something East Indian Convenience Store owner with a chip on his shoulder

Comment on THE LONG GOOD-BYE by Dan

Dan — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:05:24 +0000

Hello my friend. I’m onboard with you and feel the worst; the evening news tonight focused on the housing market plummeting here, with two of the largest mortgage companies drowning in foreclosures and bad loans. An older gentleman at work is one of many paranoid alarmists around these days, telling me to “keep my guns clean and stay in the hills,” because the cities will become a war zone, and looters will run rampant. Not what a parent wants to hear, and I certainly hope it never goes that route, but it’s very unsettling. Let’s hope for the best. I saw that huge gap you saw in London, up near Boston last week. This is not good. I have to stay optimistic, though. Life is always such an uncertain playing field.

Comment on THE LONG GOOD-BYE by gallowaygrave

gallowaygrave — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:24:37 +0000

Hello Dan, interesting comment about your ex (jobwise IHTA). Our two recent trips to London (for the first time in some 5/6 years) really opened my eyes, again, to the huge gulf that exists between the rich and poor in Britain; obscene it is! My reading of world history suggests to me that civil disorder here is inevitable; timing a bit unsure but it’s coming.

Comment on THE LONG GOOD-BYE by Dan

Dan — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:51:19 +0000

I flashed back to the Michael Douglas movie, “Wall Street”. Greed is rampant. I interviewed for a social services job, and they threw 7 of us into a room, then fired repeated questions over and over, then asked why each one of us was better than the other. And this is a so-called social service org.? We’re doomed. We’re so doomed. Thanks, Tom.

Comment on THE LONG GOOD-BYE by Dan

Dan — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:47:51 +0000

It’s maddening. The former manager who had to let me go is actually one of my mail customers now, which is really ironic since the office is 42 miles away. I finally spoke to him this past weekend, and when I asked about the economy and business in general, he quickly went into a very strong defensive mode, how people shouldn’t be mad at the rich owners, etc., etc. It was very strange, until I realized he was one of the owners. He was also very nervous about the future, but he’s going to be just fine. Us? Not so much. I’ll keep my eye on England, as the ripples go back and forth between the countries. I see trouble ahead, and if that gap between rich and poor keeps widening, it could become like the poem, and the center will no longer hold. Meanwhile, people are distracted as the media makes heroes out of flight attendants, and focuses on a “mosque” blocks away from ground zero. Maddening! The falcon no longer hears the falconer. Thanks, GG!