Tag: American Politics

Sunday Paper - Wholesale Coffee Beans, Blogging in 2020, Adopt a Woman, Electoral Districts, Apple Media Bundle

News of the week.

Rocky Hill's local coffee retailer, Vitaliy Shakirov, has shifted his business focus from retail to wholesale. The new venture is called Rockaffe.

Choosing the right wholesale coffee supplier for your business, whether it is a coffee shop, as a complement to your restaurant, or as a business perk, is essential to meet business needs. What should you consider before you make a perfect cup of coffee for your business? Vitaliy Shakirov

Ben Werdmüller wrote a blog post about the best way to get started blogging in 2020.

In an attempt to mitigate gender discrimination in the board room California passed a law that amounts to gender discrimination. Shareholders are suing.

California state legislative districts are so large that it dilutes the electoral power of political minorities. Libertarian activist is part of a group that's trying to get federal courts to force the state to add more seats to the state legislature.

According to Bloomberg, Apple is planning to bundle Apple Music, Apple News, and Apple TV+. I am not an Apple News subscriber, but I subscribe to Apple Music, and I am currently on a free one year trial of Apple TV+. While there are only a few shows I find interesting, the quality of the content on Apple TV+ is quite good. Assuming Apple does offer music, news, and streaming bundle at a decent price point, say $25/month, I would sign up.

We The People

I saw some snippets from a recent Trump rally. The following words popped into my head. Emphasis mine.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.National Archives