Today’s Water Cooler: NAFTA, Biden and PACs, Ryan, Sanders, Sanders and MeTV, Warren, impeachment process, debates, rich zip codes, consumer sentiment, WeWork, Amazon Ring, quantum computing, Google search, Exxon suit, green power, single payer cost estimates
Sunday, February 8, 2026
Automation: Robots in Real Life
The reality of robots is often mundane.
California Blackout: Turning the Lights Off
So first came the blackout….
The Famous Baseball-Watching Equality-Equity Graphic, Scrutinized
Turning to a classic policy debate: equality versus equity.
Dire Climate Change Warning in Report for Pentagon: US Military Could Collapse in 20 Years; Lack of Water, Domestic Disasters, Disease, Mass Migrations as Threats to Operations
Even the US military is not well prepared for Jackpot-level climage-change-induced disasters that look all too probable in the next 20 years.
2:00PM Water Cooler 10/24/2019
Today’s Water Cooler:
Chile in Flames: The Neoliberal Model in Crisis Throughout the Region
An overview of the protests in Chile.
CalPERS Abandoning Passive Equity Investing
alPERS has made big changes to how it invests, yet the press has barely noticed.
How Europe’s Greedy Lending to Africa Is Driving the Migration Wave That Fuels the EU’s Xenophobic Politics
How Europe is creating the conditions in Africa that lead to migration….and the underlying stresses are set to get worse.
2:00PM Water Cooler 10/23/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Biden, Sanders, Trump, Warren, centrist angst, pollsters, McConnell on impeachment, Joffrey Epstein, housing, weak banks, TARP fraud, Walmart cheese shortage, Boeing earnings, US leads global green economy, the climate movement, moths and bats, GM strike, consciousness
For Boomers Reframing Aging, Age-Proofing A Home Won’t Come Cheap
Americans want to stay at home as they age, but it doesn’t come cheap.
The Rise and Fall of the Roman Republic: Part 2 of 4: The First Hammer-Blows
How the Roman Republic repeatedly rejected economic reforms and fell more and more to bloody insurrections by ambitious consuls and Senators.
