Fight Fiercely, Harvard! August 12, 2008March 11, 2017 DO OUR KIDS HAVE IT AS GOOD AS WE DID? Stephen Tumbas: ‘How does our daughter’s job offer of $33K per year compare to our first salary in 1972 of $10K?’ ☞ Poor kid. To match your 1972 $10,000, adjusted for inflation, she needs to be getting $52K. Use this handy tool to see for yourself. Then again, she gets 152 cable channels and has GPS and a camera built into her iPhone. It’s hard to measure true equivalence. AN INCOME STOCK I bought some CPNO at $30.45 yesterday. I like the 7.5% yield. WHY LIBERALS LOSE Here’s a theory for why Southern Democrats do better winning the presidency than the Stevensons, Mondales, and Dukakises (Dukaki?), Gores and Kerrys. (Hint: they fight back.) (Note: the writer has Vice President Gore having gone to Yale. Actually, it was Harvard.)