Thursday, December 25, 2025
The Central Asian Alphabet Issue
The oft-ignored role of an alphabet in politics and identity.
How ‘Queer Eye’ Upholds Liberal Economic Fantasies
The popular show focuses on America’s economic victims, offering help only elites enjoy while avoiding critiques of gross inequality.
2:00PM Water Cooler 1/14/2022
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U.S. Supreme Court Blocks Biden Vaccine Mandate for Private Businesses, Upholds for Most Health Workers
The Supreme Court fillets Biden’s private sector vaccine mandate, leaving it to employers and states to act, unless Congress opts to step in and craft a nationwide policy.
Wrong Way CalPERS: Dumping $6 Billion of Private Equity After Struggling to Put Money to Work and Then Increasing Target
CalPERS is trying to do something more obviously nonsensical than usual.
Is Geneva 2022 Munich 1938 Without Chamberlain’s Piece Of Paper? How To Read the US Paper to Russia For Peace For Our Time
Why the US is looking at best mighty unserious in its talks with Russia.
Our Rolling Civil War
The institutional left has abandoned leadership of a nascent civil war to the institutional right.
2:00PM Water Cooler 1/13/2022
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Hong Kong Study: Tumble Clothes Dryers Generate Air Pollution from Microfibers
Tumble dryers create microfibers, which can damage human health. Eliminating this source of air pollutants is not an easy task.
More on the Morbidity Risk of Omicron: “Like a Chess Grandmaster Playing Against Schoolboys”
A lot of the misunderstanding of Omicron is actively cultivated.
Africa Faces an Uphill Battle Against Western Emissions to Combat Climate Change
African nations are disproportionately vulnerable to climate change, even though .the continent accounts for the smallest share of global greenhouse gas emissions – 3.8%.
Biden Under Fire for Resisting Calls to Distribute N95 Masks to All
The Biden administration dithers, while meanwhile Bernie reintroduces legislation that sends N95 masks to every U.S. household.
