Category Archives: Guest Post

Are European Politicians Beginning to Worry About Their Own Possible Complicity in Israel’s War Crimes?

“If you are encouraging a party to undertake a war crime you become complicit in that crime itself.”

IM Doc on the Accelerating Decline in American Medicine

On the rot in US medicine….and as you might expect, it started from the head.

How One Advice Columnist Handled Our Covid Pandemic, Over Four Years

Carolyn Hax tries to sweep back the tide with a broom.

Book Review: How Plants Experience the World

In “The Light Eaters,” Zoë Schlanger considers the evidence for plant intelligence, and what that means for humanity.

Links 5/26/2024

Remember Headlines 2 Weeks Ago, Labor Market “Suddenly” Weakens as Unemployment Claims “Spike”: It Just Got Unwound

A wee unpacking of unemployment data to show how Fed rate cut cheerleaders are still ahead of themselves

U.S. Remains Painfully Dependent on China for Silicon and Solar Panels

Yet another own goal in the US economic war against China. We chose to make ourselves dependent and don’t like where we are.

2:00PM Water Cooler 5/24/2024

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics, the Bragg trial winds down. imperceptible skin sensors, Hokusai’s Great Wave ~

Links 5/24/2024

SouthCom Commander Laura Richardson Just Described “Plan Colombia” As A Success, A Model for the Region

Even the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee has admitted that Plan Colombia was a resounding failure from a counter-narcotics perspective while providing short-term benefits from a counter-insurgency perspective

National Grid Wants to Heat More Homes With Converted Food Waste — and Make You Pay For It

National Grid’s biogas plant is performing poorly, as shown by downtimes and methane flaring, yet it wants more consumer subsidies to expand.