2022 archive
Supply Change 0
Sam suggests that the Federal Reserve’s response to the current spike in inflation in the U. S. is based on economic theories that don’t apply in the current situation and may therefore make the situation worse.
Cars of the Future 0
We ignore climate change at our peril, but, frankly, I fear we are well past the tipping point. I do not see humankind capable of the global cooperation that is required to combat it. To be blunt, I fear that climate change will become our own self-inflicted asteroid which we will prove incapable of averting.
“But It’s the Only Possible Explanation” 0
Joseph Mazur takes a look at how paranoid and/or manipulative thinkers turn coincidences into conspiracies. An excerpt:
Follow the link, where he expands on that thought.
Recommended Listening 0
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas.
The reader of this this novel does a superb job with a superb story. It’s one of the best Librivox readings I’ve heard!
Though, for some fool reason, he seems to have trouble remembering Alexandre Dumas’s first name.
The Crypto Con 0
From El Reg:
Details at the link.
Via Le Show, where Harry Shearer suggests that homo is definitely not sapiens.
Know Them by the Company They Keep 0
Charles Blow notices a pattern.
A Bridge Too Favre 0
The Los Angeles Times’s LZ Granderson, who has ties to Mississippi, digs into Brett Farve’s role in–er–misappropriating public funds intended to help the less-well-off to serve his own private ends. A snippet:
Once is a mistake.*
He came back for seconds.
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*Yeah. Right.
A Case of Identity 0
At AL.com, Kyle Whitmire delves into the strange and twisty case of the DIY voter ID.
What makes it strange is that, despite what could be called a fraudulent identification document, there seems to have been no intent to defraud, but, rather, an attempt to comply.
The Crypto Con Artists 0
Beware of the shills. For example (much more at the link):
(snip(
“The federal securities laws are clear that any celebrity or other individual who promotes a crypto asset security must disclose the nature, source, and amount of compensation they received in exchange for the promotion,” Gurbir Grewal, director of the SEC’s division of enforcement, said in a prepared statement.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
America’s special brand of politeness claims the life of another child.
Thus passeth another day in the NRA’s Garden of Bleedin’.
Republican Family Values, Reprise 0
Jeff Shapiro argues that a political party that wants to follow little children into bathrooms and look at their private parts cannot credibly claim that it’s the party of small government.
Republican Family Values 0
Read the news story that David discusses.
Afterthought:
What is the paramount Republican family value: cruelty or patriarchy?
Inquiring minds want to know.