Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Twenty-Three: Uber’s Already Hopelessly Unprofitable Economics Take A Major Coronavirus Hit
The press is still refusing to depict Uber accurately, as a rotting corpse.
CalPERS Digs Its Ben Meng Defenestration Hole Deeper: Claims Knowledge of Abuse Months Ago; Notice for Emergency Closed Session Legally Invalid Unless CEO Frost’s Job Is on the Line
CalPERS is bizarrely unable to control its bad impulses.
COVID-19 Survivors Face Lifetime of Disability
Funny how other countries are willing to acknowledge that Covid-19 can do very bad things without killing you, and not the US.
COVID-19 and the California Prison Crisis: 24th San Quentin Inmate Dies Last Friday
The 24th San Quentin inmate died Friday of COVID-19 complications, an inevitable consequence of Calironia’s misguided transfer policy.
Wind Farms Built on Carbon-Rich Peat Bogs Lose Their Ability to Fight Climate Change
Wind farms provide sustainable energy but must be properly sited, so not to destroy the carbon sink characteristsics of peat bogs.
Larry Wilkerson: The Danger of War With China is Real and Insane
Col. Larry Wilkerson explains that China and the U.S. must work together on the climate crisis, but the militaries and security states on both sides make that impossible.
Why Capitalism Is in Constant Conflict With Democracy
A high level, if flawed, critique of democracy American style.
2:00PM Water Cooler 8/7/2020
Covid in TN, NC, AL, AL, and IL ~ Party on ~ School reopening ~ Biden’s foreign policy team ~ Biden’s Republican Hispanic whisperer ~ Biden’s Corvette ~ A second Civil War ~ Employment situation ~ Adam Tooze ~ Hydroxychloroquine ~ Covid, sleep, and music ~ “Officer-involved shooting” deprecated
Patrick Cockburn: War and Pandemic Journalism
On the political forces that lead governments to minimize pandemic risks and costs and cheerlead faint signs of hope.
Crapification, Vanguard Style: Customer Service Rep Bullies Your Humble Blogger into Taking Security Risk
Vanguard behaves very badly.
Stimulus Talks on Verge of Failure as Both Sides Trade Blame
No news on the stimulus front is very very bad news.
