~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Sunday, September 14, 2025
Ponzis Go Boom!!!
The SPAC market is in the process of detonating and it will take the Ponzi Sector with it.
Our Collective Long Covid
Why Covid will be with us for a very long time.
Austerity Raises Covid Deaths
Mortality and economic data show that stingy government spending and resistance to redistrbution have increased Covid health costs.
Where the Beltway Mainstream Thinks Obama’s Performance Could Have Been Improved
Mainstream critiques of Obama show Biden’s degrees of freedom.
Need Amid Plenty: Richest US Counties Are Overwhelmed by Surge in Child Hunger
While every U.S. county has seen hunger rates rise, the steepest jumps have been in some of the wealthiest counties, where overall affluence obscures the tenuous finances of low-wage workers.
Russia and China Are Sending Biden a Message: Don’t Judge Us or Try to Change us. Those Days Are Over
The initial Biden foreign policy backfires are leading to even more cooperation betwen China and Russia.
Utopian Socialism Brings About Toilet Paper Shortages Maybe In The Near Future, or A Short Ideological History of the Suez Canal
Why it’s socialists’ fault that that big ship is stuck in the Suez.
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/26/2021
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Incomplete and Indecisive USPS Board Flounders and Awaits Direction
Despite Biden moving to fill open USPS board seats, don’t get your hopes up.
Ships, Chips, and IPs: The High Costs of Tight Coupling
Tight coupling explains how innocent bystanders wind up suffering under neoliberal regimes: unwillingness to incur costs to increase safety.
