Why banks and landlords (and the health care industry) need to pay their share of coronavirus costs.
Monday, December 29, 2025
Brexit: Pawing and Snorting
In theory, Brexit negotiations are moving forward, but they sure don’t look like it.
According to the WHO, Coronavirus Is WORSE Than the Spanish Flu … Which Killed Tens of Millions of People
A short public service message intended for those who still think the coronavirus is not a big deal.
Super Tuesday Open Thread
Check in and opine as Super Tuesday results come in!
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/3/2020
Today’s Water Cooler: Semi-open thread.
Tim Cook and Apple Bet the Farm on China, But Then Coronavirus Hit
WSJ examines the consequences of the decision by Apple to become so dependent on China – what looks to be a catastrophic mistake in the age of coronavirus.
Let’s Crush the Woke Plutonomy! An Interview + Review of The Populist’s Guide to 2020: A New Right and New Left are Rising by Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti
How the ordering of the world to suit the 1% – also known as plutonomy – has generated long-overdue “populist” pushback.
US Successfully Planned for the ‘Endless Frontier’ of Science Research in 1945 – Now It’s Time to Plan the Next 75 Years
Influence of Vannevar Bush and the Endless Frontier in Postwar science planning – US science for the next 75 years.
Why Our Food Systems Need a Radical Overhaul
Despite ravaging the Earth for industrial agriculture, we can’t provide nourishing food globally. That has to change.
How the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) Could Help Pay for #COVID-19 Treatment (and Lead to #MedicareForAll)
Some refreshingly lateral thinking….
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/2/2020
Today’s Water Cooler: Super Tuesday polling, Bloomberg, Biden, Klobuchar out, Sanders, Warren, #COVID-19 and the primaries, Aaron Sorkin, manufacturing, construction, housing, Facebook, Calfornia wildfires, crops and salt, #COVID-19 and the working class, emotional support animals
What Viktor Frankl’s Logotherapy Can Offer in the Anthropocene
Frank: “Man’s search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a ‘secondary rationalisation’ of instinctual drives.”
