2:00PM Water Cooler 7/22/2022
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More Monkeypox Vaccines Are Coming to NYC. Should You Get Vaccinated — And How?
“Your guide to all things monkeypox — from symptoms to where to get vaccinated in the city.”
Read more...South American Trade Bloc Mercosur Snubs Ukrainian President Zelensky
Mercosur’s refusal to host Zelenski at its 60th Summit is yet further confirmation of Latin America’s largely neutral stance on the Ukraine conflict. The US is beginning to get worried.
Read more...If the Democratic Party Tried to Change, Would its Ecosystem Prevent It?
“Fixing the Democratic Party” is more daunting than most think. Most of the Party’s big-dollar ecosystem exists to keep it just as it is.
Read more...Sri Lanka: Why the Philippines Offers a Warning for What Might Come Next
Could Sri Lanka see the disgraced Rajapaksas return to power, like the Marcos family has in the Philippines?
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 7/21/2022
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Read more...Why Workers Are Turning to Unions
Unions are gaining steam….
Read more...Links 7/21/2022
Farewell Post: I’m So Glad We Had This Time Together
Farewell to Naked Capitalism and the world’s best commentariat to turn my full attention to my fiction. So long!
Read more...Hubert Horan and Izabella Kaminska: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Thirty: The “Uber Files” Are Not the Uber Exposé You Are Looking For
The Uber Files showUber’s bad conduct was deliberate, but miss that its poor economics meant Uber engaged in a confidence trick on society.
Read more...‘Crushing News’: Appeals Court Greenlights Georgia’s 6-Week Abortion Ban
The most restrictive abortion law in the US is now in effect, despite its scientifically-dubioius “heatbeat” standard.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 7/20/2022
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Read more...“The Illusion of Evidence-Based Medicine”
On the rotten state of evidence-baded medicine, and whether there is any way out.
Read more...Behind the Crisis in Sri Lanka – How Political and Economic Mismanagement Combined to Plunge Nation into Turmoil
Some background on the escalating crisis in Sri Lanka and what might come next.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 7/19/2022
By Lambert Strether of Corrente Bird Song of the Day Hume’s Lark, Ladakh, India. Tomorrow, Locke’s Lark! * * * Politics “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist 51 “They had learned nothing, and forgotten nothing.” –Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord “When the going gets weird, […]
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