Category Archives: Water Cooler

Today’s Water Cooler: Trade optimism, Buttigieg, Booker, Sanders, Yang, Iowa poll, another lunatic impeachment witness, Obama legacy, housing, services, Walmart retail v. etail, hacking bounty, slowdown signs, butterflies, soil, hyperosmia, Young Adult literature, economic insecurity for over-65s, FedEx, memory, handwriting

Today’s Water Cooler: Forever trade war, Iowa polling, Trump, Warren, impeachment, Obama legacy, housing, frack sand collapse, container shipping, aircraft sales, robot cars to increase driving, giant structures in the universe, junk, landfills, more efficient toilets, dentistry, the press, wage theft, Hokusai

Today’s Water Cooler: Trade and farm purchases, Bloomberg, Buttigieg, introducing Patrick, Sanders, Warren, Capitol Hill therapy dogs, impeachment , jobless claims, U.S. oil, producer prices, Walmart, innovation, Google, Boeing, McClatchy, feral hogs, NGOs and labor, My Secret Garden

Today’s Water Cooler: Trade in furniture, Biden, impeachment!!!! and the ambassadors, consumer price index, inflation expectations, China in Piraeus, freight bezzles, blockchain, new MacBook Pro, Google, chip vulnerabilities, noise in the brain (not impeachment), dub poetry

Today’s Water Cooler: China trade, Biden, Bloomberg, Sanders, Warren, Republican impeachment talking points, the debates, Democrats and the suburbs, small business optimism, auto inventories, Amazon, Alexa, IoT and wearables, wetlands, infrastructural technical debt, dams, students newspapers, InstaCart, food carts, K-Pop

Today’s Water Cooler: open thread

Today’s Water Cooler: China and Shutterstock, Nevada polling, Biden, Bloomberg, Clinton, Sanders, Steyer, Warren, impeachment “coup,” trolling, consumer sentiment, wholesale trade, Uber, Amazon, recession fears receding, global production ecosystem, wine county fires, human diversity, MIT robots

Today’s Water Cooler: US/China to reverse tariffs in “phases,” theories of change, Biden, Buttigieg, Sanders, Warren, Weld, employment, impeachment for “quid pro quo” to extortion/bribery, CA methane super-emitters, rivers in Tibet, Russia, Mexico, grotesque college admissions scandal

Today’s Water Cooler: China milk imports, Biden, Buttigieg, Harris, Sanders, Trump, Warren, Kentucky, Maine, Virginia, Washington, propaganda, productivity and costs, Twitter, chip fabrication, Boeing, Iraq’s marshes, Laos tigers, elephants v. poverty/corruption, Dr. Bronner, sexual objectification, blogging

Today’s Water Cooler: China and EV batteries, Sanders, Steyer, Trump, Warren, AOC, impeachment, Warren’s #MedicareForAll plan, employment, services, international trade, luxury real estate, Bitcoin, California dams, Russian nuclear dumps, how many bathrooms does Jeff Bezos need?

Today’s Water Cooler: Biden, Buttigieg, O’Rourke, Sanders, Trump, Warren, impeachment transcripts, TAP butchers defense of Warren’s #MedicareForAll plan, Wasserman-Schultz, factory orders, AirBnB, wildflower median strips, feral hogs, UAW and CTU, Derek Smalls

Today’s Water Cooler: Iowa primary, Biden, Trump, impeachment, ballot marking devices, employment situation, manufacturing, construction, retail, semiconductors, website “fingerprinting,” Google, board games, unionizing NBC

Today’s Water Cooler: Mattel v. Masbro, Biden, Buttigieg, Gabbard, Sanders, Trump, Williamson, Twitter to refuse political ads, impeachment, Beltway biofilm, employment, personal income and outlays, platinum, Boeing v. Airbus, Halloween, Ford contract, library fines

Today’s Water Cooler: Open thread.