Wreckage of national parks during the shutdown as yet another sign of lack of social cohesion.
Saturday, February 7, 2026
$15 Minimum Wage: Job Killer or Path Out of Poverty?
This Real News Network segment sets forth the most common arguments against increasing the minimum wage to $15 an hour, or alternatively, a living wage level, and shows why they don’t hold up to scrutiny. A decent minimum wage is even more important when the supposedly robust US economy is increasingly creating McJobs. JAISAL NOOR: […]
Please Join Our “Come in From the Cold” NYC Meetup Next Friday, January 18 and Fort Lauderdale Meetup Thursday February 7
Hope you can make our NYC or Fort Lauderdale meetup’! You’ll find good company and if you are so inclined, plenty of potables.
2:00PM Water Cooler 1/11/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: China trade, Beto, Harris, Gillibrand, Biden, Sanders, AOC vs “call time,” Pelosi’s theory of the party, Ed Buck saga, liberal warmongers, cost of living, deep-sea mud and rare earths, “Lazy Prices,” Wall Street algos, labor exploitation, EVE online
The Downside of Market-Minded Philanthropy
Beware of squillionaires practicing philanthropy…..
Trillions In IPO Funds At Risk Over Government Shutdown
It turns out the often-maligned SEC is much missed as the Federal partial shutdown puts the IPO market on hold.
China Won’t Be Taking Over
Why China is fragile and starting to look wobbly.
Thoughts on Warren and Sanders: How Much Change Is Needed in 2021?
A look at Warren’s and Sanders’ fundamental political stances and what they might mean for their 2020 campaigns.
2:00PM Water Cooler 1/10/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Beto, Biden, Sanders and oppo, CBC and diversity, HR1, jobless claims, Amazon, software patents, beauty and evolution, redwoods, Headstart, life expectancy, precarity, Bruce Weber (again), Kuhn’s “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions”
How Shocking Was Shock Therapy?
Poland managed to escape a lot of the “shock doctrine” treatment, yet has gone hard right. What happened?
Kamala Harris Tells Big Lie: That 2012 Mortgage Settlement Was a Good Deal for Homeowners
Kamala Harris’ supposed big accomplishment, of getting California a better deal in the 2012 mortgage settlement, isn’t anything to boast about.
New Documents Reveal a Covert British Military-Intelligence Smear Machine Meddling In American Politics
The Orwellianly-named Integrity Initiative is bringing international disinformation campaign, road tested in Europe. to the US, in the form of a “political smear unit.”
Here’s What a Real Strike Looks Like: 150 Million Say No to Despotism in India
The Modi government is trying to stare down large-scale strikes against its labor “reforms” in India.
