The Koan of Peace
There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.Mahatma GandhiIsrael-Hamas-Iran-HezbullahRussia-Ukraine-NATO-Republican PartyNorth KoreaChina-TaiwanSudanISISSyriaThe forces of Fossil...
View Article4/16 Renewable Tuesday: Out with the Old, in with the New
Neat idea, I think. Dumping fossil fuels for renewable energy, changing coal mines over to pumped hydro, wind farms in the Gobi Desert, geothermal at schools, trading a gas-fueled power plant in on a...
View ArticleDiabetes Pot Luck
No huge diabetes news this week, but lots of lesser advances in every variety of the disease and many possible treatments. Feel free to add any news that has come your way. I’m still testing...
View Article4/18 Good News Roundup: Are We Better Off? Whaddaya Mean We, Fat White Man?
Four years ago yesterday, the full disaster was upon us, as Chris Hayes noted on last night’s All In. For Ds, there is no question that getting past covid and well into Bidenomics has made everyone...
View ArticleSocial Media Follow Limits
We want to follow each other on whatever social media we frequent in order to spread the reach of our Boosting Biden posts. A few platforms limit following, which means you need specific strategies to...
View ArticleEconomics Book: Why We Can't Afford the Rich
I don’t have to explain Andrew Sayer’s title, above, in any detail here. The ultra-rich lie, cheat, steal, and get laws written to protect their interest at any and all costs. They prate Friedmanite...
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Koan: Following Jesus...
…as their Lord and Savior devotedly all the days of their lives—and never catching up with Him. The various factions and sects make no secrets of their issues of racism, bigotry, misogyny, science...
View Article4/23 Renewable Earth Day
Earth Day was yesterday, when I was writing this Renewable Tuesday post, so I decided to do an All-Earth-Day day for today to celebrate the Earth, the day, and everybody taking action to rescue us all...
View ArticleDiabetes: Type 1 Diabetes Research Gaps
Exercise can bring on hypoglycemia in T1D patients. I guess that means I should do more of it—not to the point of hypoglycemia, but whenever my blood glucose drifts upward, but not by enough to warrant...
View Article4/25 Good News Roundup: Do YOU Know What's in the IRA?
Huge numbers of prospective voters don’t. This lack is one of the major messaging issues in this campaign. Now, in reality, Biden’s people are on this, and are just getting started with tens of...
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Boosting Biden through Kosacks on Social Media
In order to boost our Boosting Biden posts it helps to know your allies where you post. Here are some groups of Kosacks, and individuals worth following and communicating with. I include the groups and...
View ArticleEconomics Book: Memenomics: The Next Generation Economic System
Memenomics, by Said Dawlabani, is an enormously frustrating book, full of brash promises that it cannot fulfill. Nevertheless it offers much useful information, and a new way to think about society,...
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The Koan of Fear
I have long known that the Trumpish Injustices on SCOTUS hate everything good, but I only recently saw plainly how much they fear it all, and how much that makes them willing to destroy the...
View ArticleRenewable Tuesday: Vroom! Vroom!
As always we can report on exponential growth in renewables and storage, but we can also add now that the latest Formula E electric race cars have greater acceleration than Formula 1 ICE race cars...
View ArticleDiabetes: Dangerous Insulin Shortages
‘Distressing’ scarcity sowing uncertainty among 400,000 with type 1 diabetes, experts warn. In the UK this is partly blamed on Brexit, and on Conservatives defunding the NHS and setting draconian...
View Article5/2 Good News Roundup: Fear and Loathing on SCOTUS
Color me thick, but I just realized how much the six Injustices on the Supreme Court are motivated by stark, brain-freezing terror of a caricature of the rest of us, supposedly out to destroy all real...
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The Biden Moral Panic Unboosters
What does the paskudnyak/ultra-MAGA/GQPer minority think it’s up to, where I use the word think very loosely? They are not shy about saying, and then we get to clap back, to point and laugh, to tell...
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Economics Books: The Shock Doctrine, Part 1: Chile
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, by Naomi Klein, is a huge and wide-ranging book, focused on the disasters arising from Milton Friedman’s Market Fundamentalism, applied in countries...
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Koans of Money
9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. 10For the love of money is the root of all evil:...
View ArticleRenewable Tuesday 5/7: It's Finally Happening EVERYWHERE
Countries making the most progress on renewables rate a lot of attention, but we need to look at the other end of the spectrum, too. Compare the UK, above, with Turkmenistan, below, just starting its...
View ArticleDiabetes: Reversing T1D
New antibody drug reverses Type 1 diabetes in groundbreaking experimentAn experimental drug is bringing science one step closer to curing Type 1 diabetes. Scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine are...
View Article5/9 Good News Roundup: More of the Same, but More So
As the Far Wrong Wing shrinks toward irrelevance, it continues to take refuge in Cognitive Dissonance, the inability to process the failure of prophecy. Thus the prophecies proliferate and became more...
View ArticleBoosting Biden Boosting on Social Media
We are making gains out there. The polls have also turned around just recently. And the news for the other side just keeps getting worse and worse. See the recurring Republicans in Chaos/Bad News for...
View ArticleEconomics Book: The Shock Doctrine, Part 2: Since Chile
The Pinochet coup in Chile laid the groundwork for Friedmanite political, military, and economic coups, including systematic torture and murder, in dozens of countries for decades, up to and including...
View ArticleManjushri's Birthday Koans
Manjushri’s birthday is the 4th day of the 4th lunar month in various calendars. He is the Bodhisattva of Wisdom, and the former teacher of several Buddhas. Representations of Manjushri are quite...
View Article5/14 Renewable Tuesday: The Former 0% Club
I promised last week to take a deeper look at the 0%ers, countries with no wind or solar installations—until now. Here they are, taking baby steps or massive strides, but none can ignore the future any...
View ArticleDiabetes: No-Stick CGM Scam
We have two completely bogus products from Sherum to look at today, the Sherum Track Pro 2.0 and the Hilipert Geekran SugarReg Bangle, being sold on Amazon, eBay, and elsewhere. The FDA warns that...
View Article5/16 Good News Roundup: Voting, Schmoting, Says GQP
Wrong-Wingers are pulling out all of the stops against ballot drop boxes and mail-in ballots and much more, alleging that they are all means for Democrats to rig elections. They are failing to build an...
View ArticleBoosting Biden Outreach: Sharing with Other DK Groups
We have been investigating which groups are appropriate for republishing Boosting Biden posts on a variety of topics. These are groups that I belong to that have come up in the conversation. I need to...
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Economics Book: Thinking, Fast and Slow, Part 1
This is not as big a book as The Shock Doctrine, but it is denser, with numerous illusions exposed by careful experiments. Naomi Klein was exposing one huge illusion with vast real-world consequences....
View ArticleKoan: The Bodhisattva Siddharta's Birthday
Shakyamuni Buddha never taught anything about his birth, which has become the focus of fan fiction at the level of Jesus and Moses. Legend has it that he was born from his mother’s side while she held...
View Article5/21 Renewable Tuesday: Peak Global Pollution, Too!
In addition to CO2, burning carbon releases a wide variety of other pollutants that we will spare ourselves by going fully renewable. This is the year of Peak Carbon, so it is also the year of Peak...
View ArticleDiabetes: Weekly Insulins
Getting to one injection a week will be a huge advance in diabetes treatment. Today we have one product being considered by the FDA, and one in advancing clinical trials. And, of course, we have other...
View Article5/23 GNR: It's All Happening, and Here We are for It
If someone asks you how you find yourself in these terrible times, you can tell them, “Why, every morning I just fling back the covers, and there I am!”Pharrell Williams - Happy (Video)xxYouTube Video
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Boosting Dark Brandon
I have been writing about sharing Boosting Biden posts in this group. Now I want to point to another resource, my Pinterest Dark Brandon et al. board. You can use the regular Boosting BIden images,...
View ArticleEconomics Books: Thinking, Fast and Slow, Part 2
Fast thinking includes a wide range of mental illusions, of biases and even prejudices that can be taught to the young, but are not inherent in humanity. it also includes a wide range of bogus moral...
View ArticleKoan: Pride and Privilege
The highest level of koans in Rinzai practice is the Ten Precepts. Today we are going to do Pride combined with the delusion of privilege, as manifested in Ultra-MAGAism. “Do not be proud of yourself...
View Article5/28 Renewable Tuesday: Solar Disasters in Africa
We have been seeing a lot of good news about renewable energy, including reaching Peak Carbon and Peak Pollution, so that it is all downhill from here, globally, toward Carbon Neutrality. But not in...
View ArticleDiabetes: Another Scam
Nooro claims FDA approval for an electrical stimulation device for feet, to treat diabetic and other neuropathy. The FDA has no information on the company. No trials, no applications, nothing approved....
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5/30 GNR: Michigan MAGA Madness
I’m going to pull a bit of a Rachel Maddow on you today, delving into some amazing history from not all that long ago that some of us may have forgotten, and all of them are in deep denial over. If you...
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Boosting Biden Outreach: When They Try to Demonize Our Joe
This post was soooooo easy to put together. I had done a search for “boosting biden” on X. And look!!! All of these popped up! OK, then. I went with them. My deepest thanks go to all of the usual...
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Economics Books: A Bidenomics Library
I’m bringing my Economics Books series to an end today, not with a single book, but with a survey of books explicitly on Bidenomics, pro and con job. I am going to rearrange my writing schedule, and...
View ArticleThe Koan of Faith and Doubt
Many Christians make a great production of faith in the unknowable. This is not what faith means in Buddhism. We must bring forth faith in the evidence of those who have passed through Mumon’s Doorless...
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6/4 Renewable Tuesday: Carbon's Death of a Billion Cuts
We need to replace all of the fossil fuel powered electricity generation plants, thousands of them, but we also need to replace cars, gas stoves, water heaters, air conditioners, and more by the...
View ArticleDiabetes: A New Option for Severe Hypoglycemia
The usual treatment for mild or moderate hypoglycemia is eating carbs, preferably glucose tablets. But they can take ten minutes to take effect as the glucose moves from the stomach into the...
View Article6/6 GNR: Fear and Loathing in the Swing States
I have set myself to document for you what disasters the Rs have cued up for themselves in this election. What will happen in the swing states, and which other states might start to swing? We looked at...
View ArticleTruth Sandwiches: Disinformation
I’m sorry that I haven’t posted about the Truth Brigade for months now. Stuff happened. But here we go again. Disinformation is naturally our chief target, although we can’t get into party politics as...
View ArticleBoosting Biden to Truth Social Groups
From a recent GNR: “The platform [Mistruth Antisocial] is currently getting 76,000 visits per day. And you know some are from people who need to follow tRump because they’re journalists or political...
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Koan: A Shasta Abbey Dharma Talk on Transferring Merit
Everything in Buddhism is interconnected. Here we look at how Kanzeon teaches compassion, and how compassion leads to transfer of merit as a radically unselfish action that Buddhists of many kinds do...
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