Taking note of a weirdly hollow millenial-focused consumer brand type.
Friday, December 19, 2025
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/28/2021
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Confessions of a New York Times Washington Correspondent – Bob Smith Pt 1/2
The New York Times is impartial when convenient…which wasn’t during Watergate, My Lai, the Iraq War, and the Trump era, for instance
CDC Reversal on Masks, Vaccinated as Covid Spreaders, While Boosters Look to Be Coming Late and Not Hugely Effective
If you weren’t worried about Covid, you should be, between rising infections and evidence of CDC incompetence.
Aducanumab: The Drug That Breaks Medicare?
Biogen plans to price-gouge for the barely-effective Alzheimer’s drug aducanumab to such a degree that it could bust Medicare.
Tom Englelhardt: Our Empire in Decline
Trying to understand America’s self-and-other-destructive empire fetish.
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/27/2021
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U.S. Vaccine Diplomat Cajoles Producers to Support Low-Cost Off-Shore Vaccine Hubs
The Biden administration should push the WTO to waive COVID vaccine patents before heading off for vacation and encourage U.S. producers to ramp up low-cost vaccine production worldwide.
Why Are UK Covid Cases Declining?
Doubts about the suddenly improved UK Covid case figures.
Andreas Malm Versus Property: ‘Because Nothing Else Has Worked’
Is going after property the only viable option for containing climate damage? Andreas Malm thinks so.
Competition from Online Platforms and the Impoverishment of Newspapers
How the Internet killed newspapers.
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/26/2021
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Gurbir Grewal Takes Helm as SEC Director of Enforcement, Breaking BigLaw Stranglehold
The new SEC director of enforcement takes up his post today, the first in this position since 2005 to enter without strong recent corporate ties.
