2:00PM Water Cooler 3/9/2020
“They had learned nothing, and forgotten nothing.” –Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
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2:00PM Water Cooler 3/6/2020
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, I had a brief power failure at 1:55PM, after which the modems were confused and unhappy; I’ll do a bit of clean-up now, including the plant! –lambert UPDATE All done! Politics “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist […]
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By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Politics “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist 51 “They had one weapon left and both knew it: treachery.” –Frank Herbert, Dune Key dates coming fast now, so I added some counters: Some of the next primaries. (I picked the […]
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Today’s Water Cooler: Semi-open thread.
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Today’s Water Cooler: Super Tuesday polling, Bloomberg, Biden, Klobuchar out, Sanders, Warren, #COVID-19 and the primaries, Aaron Sorkin, manufacturing, construction, housing, Facebook, Calfornia wildfires, crops and salt, #COVID-19 and the working class, emotional support animals
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By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Politics “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist 51 “They had one weapon left and both knew it: treachery.” –Frank Herbert, Dune Key dates coming fast now, so I added some counters: Here is a second counter for South Carolina, […]
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Today’s Water Cooler: Open thread.
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Today’s Water Cooler: Not an open thread but a poor connection makes me rush to submit without writing a summary.a
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By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Politics “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist 51 “They had one weapon left and both knew it: treachery.” –Frank Herbert, Dune Key dates coming fast now, so I added some counters: Here is a second counter for the Nevada […]
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Today’s Water Cooler: SC and FL polling, Bloomberg, Sanders, Warren, NV, debate hot takes, impeachment, AOC, employment, leading indicators, manufacturing, virtual meetings, fecal matter in TX and NC, Medicaid, economic statistics, homelessness, Internet of Sh*t
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Today’s Water Cooler: New polls, Bloomberg, Sanders, NV caucus, SC, IA recount, Obama and torture, producer prices, household spending, China containers, Smile DIrect, Blue Apron, Groupon, millennials and the Fed, societal collapse books, wood skyscrapers, hedgies, consciousness, Trillbillies
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Today’s Water Cooler: Biden, Bloomberg, Buttigieg, Sanders, Warrren, NV early voting, Empire State manufacturing, mortages, shipping and COVID-19, supply chain, Galazy Z not glass?, electric bacteria, dental, “Reagan National University,” KickStarter union, Civil War podcast, Mediterranean diet
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