A vote for Neil Gorsuch is a vote for overturning Roe v Wade.
A vote for Neil Gorsuch is a vote for overturning Roe v Wade.Don’t deny that, based on some pious reasoning that the Supreme Court is not and should not be dragged into politics. The Supreme Court has...
View ArticleThe Least Alarming Thing I’ve Read All Week
Kushner Family Is in Talks to Buy Miami Marlins www.nytimes.com/...“The sale of a major league sports team always draws attention and local interest. But this one may attract even more interest,...
View ArticleWhy is the stock market so calm?
You’d think that with all the confusion and chaos in the Trump administration, the stock market would be on a roller coaster. Actually, it’s been the opposite, at least so far. Barron’s, Bloomberg...
View ArticleShort Attention Span President -- "He couldn't sit through the meeting."
Adam Davidson has a story dated May 12, 2017, on the New Yorker web site. That quote, in the first paragraph, struck me. Here it is:I spoke recently to a longtime business associate of Donald Trump,...
View ArticleNY Times runs column by John Yoo, identified as "law professor" but not...
The column is titled, “Forget Watergate. Think Iran-Contra.” Link: www.nytimes.com/…The two line biography reads: “John Yoo, a deputy assistant attorney general from 2001 to 2003, is a law professor...
View ArticleMy letter to Senators Cornyn and Cruz
The US Senate used to call itself The World’s Greatest Deliberative Body. As I remember, customs of Senatorial courtesy used to mean any Senator could delay some actions for a week with a “hold” just...
View Article"One heck of a hard sell" -- Krugman on Medicare for All
Paul Krugman gets my Monday morning award for being realistic. In today’s column he points out that there are several ways to universal health care coverage that work in different countries. He goes...
View ArticleHouston schoolkids are in for a good year of learning
From the New York Times www.nytimes.com/...The Houston Independent School District announced that classes would not resume until Sept. 11. Superintendent Richard Carranza said that more than 10...
View ArticleBetter late than never -- Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine today for work...
The Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology was announced today. It’s for work on circadian rhythm, research that seems to have been completed in 1984. One of the three recipients is an emeritus...
View ArticleFor some conservatives it's worth listening -- I think
Here are three paragraphs from a column by Roger Cohen in today’s (or maybe tomorrow’s) New York...
View ArticleDid Trump just threaten to fire Mueller?
If I heard correctly, on NPR this evening there was a report that Donald Trump had said he was impatient for Robert Mueller’s probe to finish, claimed it wasn’t going to find anything, said the country...
View ArticleGutless Wonder Capitalists
Two mutual funds that I have shares in had very similar shareholder proposals in the proxy statements they've recently sent me.For a Vanguard fund the proposal is:A SHAREHOLDER PROPOSAL TO "INSTITUTE...
View ArticleIs competent IT help that hard to find?
From the NY Times:American Airlines Error Leaves Thousands of Holiday Flights Without Pilotswww.nytimes.com/…The flights that currently have no scheduled pilots originate from cities including Boston;...
View ArticleI just hung up on a "survey".
Element removedI just hung up on a survey.It claimed to be a political survey, from Anderson Williams Research. It was a robo-call, starting with, “First, am I speaking to -------.” If it had been...
View ArticleEuphemism of the week: ”Supervised Consumption Services”
Euphemism of the week: ”Supervised Consumption Services”I just got an email from the Drub Policy Alliance about San Francisco opening the first government sponsored Supervised Consumption Service...
View ArticleHawaiian Pizza – a paradigm for gut-level controversies?
Hawaiian pizza, with pineapple on top of the things we all expect on a pizza, seems to be a very controversial food. Some people love it, while others find the very idea revolting. I’ll suggest the...
View ArticleMaintaining Net Neutrality Passes the Senate
By a 52-47 vote the Senate voted to roll back the scuttling of net neutrality by Agit Pai and the Trump toadies at the FCC. www.commondreams.org/… As demand progress put it,BREAKING: We did it! Thanks...
View ArticleHalf-Assed Nazi Wannabees
Half-Assed Nazi WannabeesWhat’s the difference between the kids at that Tornillo camp and the victims at Auschwitz? No tattooed serial numbers....
View ArticleNancy Pelosi is too old, rich, secure, and COMPLACENT. And the DCCC is worse.
Nancy Pelosi is too old, rich, secure, and COMPLACENT. And the DCCC is worse.For the first time in a while I actually looked at an email (supposedly) from Nancy Pelosi. I filter them to the junk...
View ArticleThoughts on Taxes
Yesterday, August 3, 2018, at Netroots Nation I attended the 1-2:15 session "Why the Fight Over Taxes is Central to the Progressive Movement -- and Why it's Not Over." The panelists were Chad Bolt,...
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