The Privilege of Staying Home: COVID and the Highly Skilled Workforce
At home work during the pandemic allowed most skilled workers to choose immobility, which could affect future work and migration patterns
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The Democrats Go Full Götterdämmerung as Manchin Makes DOA of BBB Official; Omicron Undermines Scapegoating the Unvaxxed
The Democrats may finally be getting their comeuppance.
Read more...Russia’s Non-Aggression Pact Is an Offer for Germany To Realize the US Won’t Negotiate Because the Blin-Needle Gang Will Fight to the Last German, Then Run Away
How the US plans to leave Europe holding the bag if Russia eyepoking ends up badly.
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The Magnificent History of the Maligned and Misunderstood Fruitcake
Does the fruitcake get a bum rap?
Read more...How a Group of Starbucks Workers Emerged Victorious in Their Union Fight
How Starbucks, long hostile to unions, lost a fight with workers in Buffalo despite management pulling out all the stops.
Read more...We Are Fifteen Years Old
The years have flown by! Celebrating another anniversary!
Read more...On the Loss of Public Spiritedness in the West and the Impact on Politics
The boundaries between politics and commerce aren’t as clear in Japan and China as in the West, and we may not be better off for that.
Read more...More Cheery Omicron News
The latest Omicron findings.
Read more...Mirabile Dictu! Appeals Judge Rejects $4.5 Billion Purdue Pharma Opioid Settlement for Giving Sacklers Release from Civil Suits
A surprising but welcome smackdown of the Purdue Pharma settlement that would have let the Sacklers secure their considerable loot.
Read more...Build Back Better Verges on Collapse as Manchin Attempts to Kill Child Tax Credit
How Manchin is putting a lump of coal in Biden’s Christmas stocking.
Read more...Links 12/16/2021
Omicron: Fog of Information and Definitions
More Omicron updates and musings.
Read more...Thomas Ferguson: Is the U$A a Democracy?
Thomas Ferguson, a top expert on money and politics, weighs in on how much democracy is there with so much wealth and power in so few hands.
Read more...Colorado Hospitals in ‘Critical Condition’ as State Weathers Another Surge
Vignettes on how care gets compromised as hospitals start to be overwhelmed.
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