~ Today’s Water Cooler: Folies de Capital Hill ~
Wednesday, January 14, 2026
When the New York Times Colludes With the Billionaire Class
The New York Times a bit too obviously curries favor with the very best people.
Banks Around World Are Suffering Big Outages, Leaving Millions of Customers in Lurch At Worst Possible Time
Twenty banks (some suffering repeated outages), six countries (one in lockdown), five continents, tens of millions of unhappy customers.
Avoiding Water Bankruptcy in the Drought-Troubled Southwest: What the US and Iran Can Learn from Each Other
Water woes are becoming part of the new normal. What can be done to alleviate them?
Progressives Defy House Leadership on Vote on Biden $1.5 Trillion “Highway” Bill, Hold Line on Deal for $3.5 Trillion Package w/ Social Services and Climate Change Spending
The effort to get the House to rubber-stamp a $1.5 trillion Senate-dictated infrastructure bill has gone pear-shaped.
2:00PM Water Cooler 9/30/2021
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Big Doings up on Capitol Hill! ~
Covid Is Killing Rural Americans at Twice the Rate of Urbanites
Covid has triggered a hospital crisis in rural American that is killing Covid and non-Covid patients.
Rikers Island: “Humanitarian Crisis” with Dead Cockroaches, Urine and Feces, Plastic Bags in Lieu of Toilets, Lack of Food and Water; Guards Call in Sick to Escape Appalling Conditions, Covid Risk
As deaths rise at Rikers, legislators and the press are having a hard look at the horrific conditions.
Keir Starmer’s Speech – Labour’s Best Thing Since Stale Bread
It’s not capitalism that has to change, the Labour leader told us. It’s you.
How Autonomous Weapons Could Be More Destabilizing Than Nukes
Why autonomous weapons will make the world less safe.
2:00PM Water Cooler 9/29/2021
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Involuntary Psychiatric Care: The Part of the ‘Free Britney’ Saga That Could Happen to Anyone
Involuntary psychiatric care is regularly a financial scam as well as an abuse of personal rights, yet patients often have little recourse.
