Today’s Water Cooler: Democrat presidential candidate round-up, dogs, golf, and temporarily open thread.
Monday, August 18, 2025
A First Look at Pramila Jayapal’s “Medicare for All Act of 2019”, HR 1384
The state of play on the Hill, Jayapal burns the ships, Pelosi is awful, and HR1384 tries to eliminate health care for profit.
CalPERS Surveys Employee Toilet Paper Preferences as Underfunding Worsens
CalPERS manages to outdo itself in dubious managerial practices.
Have We Already Passed World Peak Oil and World Peak Coal?
Gail Tverberg extends her peak oil analysis to coal and finds a similar pattern.
Corruption Fueling Choice of “Ballot Marking Devices,” not Paper Ballots, in Georgia, Pennsylvania Debacles
Penny ante corruption fuels purchases of voting machines in Georgia and Pennsylvania
Climate Change Mobilization: To Fear, or Not to Fear?
The question is whether fear is the right emotion to play on to get people to sit up, listen, and take action.
The Permian Is A Double-Edged Sword For Oil Majors
There are still questions about the profitability of the Chevron’s assets in West Texas.
The Debate Over Tactics In the Modern Left: Radical Opposition or Strategic Inclusive Engagement?
Revisiting a classic debate over the tactics for achieving political/societal change.
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/1/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Huawei, Inslee, Booker, Pelosi on #MedicareForAll, AOC staffers, personal income, manufacturing, consumer sentiment, UPS, Tesla, algos, psychoterratic and shinrin yoku, toilet paper, unions and GND, Walmart greeters, diversity, quiet, groundwater on Mars
China Syndrome Redux: New Results on Global Labour Reallocation
What did China gain when the US lost manufacturing jobs?
Bezos Admits His Fortune Is Due to Public Infrastructure….Even as He Fought Paying a Homeless Tax in Seattle, Shakes Down Cities for Subsidies
Bezos admits he and other squillionaires didn’t do the “heavy lifting” of building the infrastructure on which tech enterprises depend….yet tries to depict a space venture as a greenfield project. Help me.
