Even former ECB Chairman Mario Draghi, now in his new role as Italian prime minister, can’t convince other Italian banks to take on the world’s oldest lender.
Wednesday, January 14, 2026
Net Zero, Insulation, Boilers, and English Dampness, or Symbol Manipulators Versus Existing Conditions
The English gas boiler as a microcosm of Anglosphere elites’ inability to come up with realistic carbon reduction schemes.
In Maine, Vaccine Mandate for EMTs Stresses Small-Town Ambulance Crews
How Maine’s vaccine-only mandate is thinning staffing of already stressed emergency services.
2:00PM Water Cooler 10/25/2021
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Open Thread ~
The Last Days of The Romanovs at the Port of Los Angeles (and Where Is Everybody?)
Cutting the Gordian knot at the Port of Los Angeles/Long Beach. Or not!
What May Happen When Central Banks Wake Up to More Persistent Inflation?
Sudden policy reversals could lead to severe downturns in financial markets and significantly damage public sector balance sheets.
Wall Street Journal Provides New Evidence of Facebook Politically-Driven Intervention in Content
Some Facebook internal chats reveal its censorship, um, moderation to be a hot mess.
Lee Camp: The Four Layers of Reality — And Why We’re Only Allowed to Talk About One
On how the media does (and doesn’t) construct reality.
Villeneuve’s Dune: Reviewing the Reviewers (and a Review)
I would go see it again.
French Oil Company Total ‘Knew About Global Warming Impact in 1971’, Study Finds
A new study has found Total knew about the links between climate change and fossil fuels 50 years ago.
The Horse Bit and Bridle Kicked Off Ancient Empires – A New Giant Dataset Tracks the Societal Factors That Drove Military Technology
A new major effort to catalogue the history of military innovations and how they spread.
On the Primacy of the Physician-Patient Relationship, From an Unlikely Source – The Attorney General of Nebraska
On the slippery slope of curtailing a doctor’s ability to treat his patient.
