Climate activist: The arguments made against nuclear power today are the same as I was making a decade ago, and I was wrong.
Friday, December 26, 2025
2:00PM Water Cooler 2/2/2022
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Inflation Paranoia Threatens Recovery
Inflation hawks are winning. A ‘beggar thyself’ race to raise interest rates has begun. But this response slows economic growth.
Covid Sightings: Omicron Reinfections, Brain Effects, Shabby US Performance, Western Australia Border Controls
There’s enough new Covid news as to merit some focus on the bigger developments…so have at it!
A Facet of Late-State Capitalist Failure: Operational Breakage
Are seemingly increasing operational failures a sign of a bigger pathology?
The UK’s Post-Brexit Review of ‘Retained EU Law’ Risks Undermining Democracy
Brexit requires the Government to disentangle domestic law from EU law. The preferred plan is to hand more power to unaccountable ministers
2:00PM Water Cooler 2/1/2022
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Sweet Smell of Success: Tales From the Garbage Heap Lost and Found
Yes, sometimes you really can get things back that mistakenly went out in the garbage. Some pointers on when that might be possible.
Almost Half of Spain Is Now Vaccine Passport-Free (At Least for Domestic Uses)
Catalonia becomes the third region in two weeks to drop the digital vaccine certificate. Four regions, including the Community of Madrid, never implemented it for domestic use.
CalPERS Continues to Grossly Misrepresent Facts and Law to Avoid Disclosing Full Transcript of Improper Board Meeting After CIO Ben Meng Quit; Will Judge Markman Buy It?
True to form, CalPERS general counsel Matt Jacobs is playing fast and loose with the law and facts. Will Judge Markman let him get away with it?
Neoliberalism Was Born in Chile. Now It Will Die There
A constitutional convention is remaking Chile to break with the model forged by murderous dictator Augusto Pinochet
2:00PM Water Cooler 1/31/2022
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Open thread ~
Reddit, r/antiwork, the FOX Interview, What Was Said (and What Might Have Been Said)
FOX News sharpens the contradictions within Reddit’s r/antiwork
