After a long delay, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants against the open genociders Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant.
Thursday, July 3, 2025
RFK, Jr. Plans Attack on AMA’s Big Meal Ticket, Licensing Fees for Medical Billing Codes
RFK, Jr.’s plan, if confirmed as HHS chair, to end Medicare use of AMA licensed-billing codes somehow will increase, not lower, costs.
What Is Politics & What Is the Political?
An effort to get at the root of what politics is meant to achieve.
“Entropy and Information Control: the Key to Understanding How to Mount the Fightback Against Trump and Other Populists”
A reader critical thinking exercise, in form of yet another attack on populism dressed in the pseudo-science of trying to link it to entropy.
2:00PM Water Cooler 11/20/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, pandemic; Theories of Trump’s nomination nethodology; Treasury rumors continue; RFK Big Mac flap ~
Thomas Neuburger: Tulsi Gabbard’s DNI Nomination
Like Gaetz, Gabbard is a mixed-bag candidate. Should she get your support?
A Post-Election Reflection on Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right
On how the shame resulting from the loss of seen-as-meaningful and well-paid work led many to reject the rule of their PMC betters.
How the Wall Street Journal Blew the Story of the Democrats and Inflation
The firehose of affluent consumption continues to drive inflation, not the stimulus package
Requiem for an Empire
While historian Alfred McCoy made an early and accurate call on the erosion of the US empire, his current readings are a mixed bag.
2:00PM Water Cooler 11/19/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Open Thread ~
Long-Running Kentucky Retirement Systems Case Surmounts Yet Another Procedural Spanner, Moves Closer to Discovery After Seven Years
The long-running Kentucky Retirement Systems case is clearing the remaining obstacles to getting to discovery.
Eight Reasons Why Marco Rubio Would Be a Disastrous Secretary of State
With Trump nominations like Matt Gaetz, RFK, Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard attracting lots of ire, Mario Rubio is being treated as sound. That’s a mistake.
