Obama would try and stop Sanders if it looks likely Bernie would get the nomination – regardless of whether that’s the best shot to defeat Trump.
Friday, January 2, 2026
The Privatized Internet — Entire .ORG Domain Registry Sold to Investment Equity Firm “Ethos Capital”; Registration Fee Restrictions Removed
Private equity grifting meets internet domain names.
2:00PM Water Cooler 11/26/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Biden, Bloomberg, Booker, Buttigieg, Sanders, Warren, impeachment, fun generational quiz, consumer confidence, manufacturing, international trade in goods, housing, Barneys, whales and carbon, game characters, Race GPS, Kim Kardashian, Schrödinger’s kittens
Repo Madness: Fed Plumbing Gone Awry
How the Fed’s fingerprints are all over the repo mess.
Financing a Global Green New Deal: System Change Needed
Discussion of a contested topic: How to pay for a Green New Deal.
Sir Ivan Rogers Plays Cassandra Again, Warns of Likely 2020 Brexit Trade Negotiations Train Wreck
Another incisive Brexit reading by Sir Ivan.
A New Pipeline Could Undo America’s Influence In Asia
A China-Pakistan pipeline deal bodes ill for the US.
Fleeing the Hellscape of Google Search with Qwant
Comparing Google to Qwant for user interface/user experience, privacy under the GDPR, and the “filter bubble”
2:00PM Water Cooler 11/25/2019
Today’s Water Cooler:
New Evidence on The Broad Reach of Pharmaceutical Payments
Our results add to a growing body of evidence linking pharmaceutical payments to changes in prescribing behaviour
The China Cables: Leaked Classified Chinese Documents Confirm China Running Massive Concentration Camps to “Re-educate” Uighurs
A document leak gives chilling insight into the biggest detention of an ethnic group, the Uighurs, since the Holocaust.
Are Evidence-Based Decisions Impossible in Politics?
How human psychology and institutional incentives undermine making good decisions in the political arena, and what can be done about that.
It’s Time to Order Your Seed Catalogs, If You Have Not Already!
“The awesomeness is in the evolution of a neglected, left-for-dead side yard of a rental building into a living, breathing space with butterflies, bees, fat earthworms, and toads, not to mention flowering plants.”
