Ida’s epic flooding is likely to become part of an extreme weather new normal.
Sunday, December 21, 2025
2:00PM Water Cooler 9/2/2021
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Mask Mandates Save Lives
Who’d have thunk it? Those crazy doctors in operating rooms are on to something. Masks work.
The Cost of Corporate America: Checking Your Conscience at the Door
Reflections on the moral cost of being a corporate citizen.
‘Catastrophic Injustice’: Judge OKs Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy Plan Shielding Sacklers
Tens of thousands dead and the Sacklers get to ride away with their Purdue Pharma loot.
Lack of a Vaccine Mandate Becomes Competitive Advantage in Hospital Staffing Wars
Why most hospitals aren’t imposing vaccine mandates.
2:00PM Water Cooler 9/1/2021
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Star Trek Versus Imperialist Doctrine
In praise of the Star Trek Prime Directive and the idealism of (some) science fiction writers.
Behold the Watered Stock’s New Variant!
Back to the future! Welcome to the successor to a 19th century favorite, watered stock.
Michael Hudson v. George Soros on China’s Rejection of “Market” Capitalism
Soros has a hissy over China’s Xi no longer wanting to play nicely with foreign investors.
Prominent CalPERS Retiree Group Warns California Secretary of State About Illegal, Hacking-Friendly Voting Methods
An important CalPERS beneficiary group calls out the fund’s use of illegal, insecure, fraud-friendly internet and phone voting.
2:00PM Water Cooler 8/31/2021
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Afghan Crisis Must End America’s Empire of War, Corruption and Poverty
The US “lost” AFghanistan by enriching military contractors and grifters, um, mercenaries, and plans to continue to punish the Afghan people
