Coffee Break: Is Mamdani’s Win Over Cuomo The End of Democratic Party Neoliberalism?
Progressives in the Democratic party are declaring the ruling neoliberal class of the party leadership finished after NYC primary.
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Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Circular Error Probability
Circular error probability (CEP) is the metric weapons designers use to describe the accuracy of munitions. CEP is defined as the radius of a circle, centered on the intended target, within which 50% of projectiles or warheads are expected to land. As guidance technology has advanced, CEPs of modern missiles and drones have grown smaller. […]
Read more...Coffee Break: Nihilists at Google Wrecking Existing Business to Chase AI Growth
Nihilism on the part of Alphabet’s CEO explains Google’s willingness to risk its search business and the open web itself to chase OpenAI.
Read more...Coffee Break: Healthcare and the State of Science, Plus Baseball and Abundance
Part the First. How Did the United States Get This Healthcare System? I distinctly remember the first time this question occurred to me, because as the child of a union household a visit to the doctor or the Emergency Room (trees were made to fall out of) was never a problem. I was twenty years […]
Read more...Nihilism is at the Core of the Israel-Iran Conflict — Not Nuclear Weapons
Nihilism, understood as the absence of a transcendental purpose, lies at the heart of the conflict that Israel initiated against Iran
Read more...Coffee Break: Texas Is the MAGA vs RINO Frontline
Texas is the 3rd largest US state. It’s been under GOP rule for 21 years and a civil war is brewing between MAGA and RINO factions.
Read more...Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Israel’s Ominous Future
The fog of war is thick over the current hostilities between Israel and Iran, but the intense interest in short-term outcomes of this regional war may be obscuring the ultimate prospects for Israel as negative trends undermine its militaristic foreign policy. I will describe these trends and the likely outcome. Loss of International Support The […]
Read more...Gaza: The Sacrificial Ram on Capital’s New Altar
Gaza and Ukraine symbolize the death of an old ‘nomos’ and the rise of a new one shaped by war, capital, and collapsing ideals
Read more...Coffee Break: Trump Deploys National Guard to LA
President Trump deploys National Guard and US Marines to Los Angeles in support of ICE. Gavin Newsom files suit in opposition. Waymos burn.
Read more...Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Implausible Deniability and the Deep State
The Central Intelligence Agency has in many ways achieved the opposite of the purpose for which it was founded. Instead of increasing the security of the U.S., it has weakened it. The CIA is a main element of what is known as the Deep State, a permanent government that operates apart from the democratic machinery […]
Read more...Coffee Break: Trump vs. Musk Omnibus
A scorecard in the Godzilla v. Mothra, um, Trump v. Musk slugfest.
Read more...Coffee Break: Working Class Life in 17th-Century Italy, Science in Decline, AI and Scientific Understanding, and Neanderthal Art
Part the First. Tales from the Crypt. Subtitled The lives of 17th century Milan’s working poor – their health, diet, and drug habits – emerge from thousands of bodies buried under a public hospital. This article appeared in Science on 1 May 2025: In 1456, the Duke of Milan established a medical institution dedicated to […]
Read more...Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Ukraine War Report
I have followed the war in Ukraine closely since 2022, and now that the war seems to be heading toward a conclusion, I would like to offer some observations. The War Was Planned and Guided by Western Governments Recent revelations have ended the pretense that Ukraine has been directing its war against Russia independently with […]
Read more...Coffee Break: Advances in Limb Regeneration & Malaria, Plus Science & Politics and a World through the Lens of Tuberculosis
Part the First. Old Experimental Models in Biology Lead to New Knowledge. Developmental Biology began as Embryology. A few of us still kicking remember the transition and miss the holistic approach required to master the material. Early embryological models included sea urchins and salamanders, tadpoles and the chicken. Much useful research was done with these […]
Read more...Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Trump’s Golden Dome Boondoggle
The zombie idea of nuclear missile defense returns with the announcement of President Trump’s “Golden Dome” missile shield, a program so stupid and costly that it could make the F-35 follies look like a side show. An orbital anti-missile system is a dream come true for the U.S. Military-Industrial Complex (MIC), but a nightmare for […]
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