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Emergency Potluck 8/22 Good News Roundup
Indictment/Arraignment/Setting Trial Dates Season is now officially open. Indictment, screaming, surrender watch, screaming, arraignment, screaming, trial, screaming, sentencing, screaming. Lather,...
View ArticleThursday 8/24 Post Debate Good News Roundup
While eight R candidates got ready for last night’s, um, debate? Slangfest? Whine and cheesy anti-wokeness? Nine of the 19 indicted conspirators in Georgia have turned themselves in, and Trump is...
View ArticleWoke Baby Book
After a harrowing search through all of the dozens of anti-woke hate screeds I could find, I bought half a dozen books that support wokeness in varying forms. We begin with a treat that cannot be...
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Koan: Does Donald Trump Have the Buddha Nature?
We know about the monk who asked whether dogs have Buddha Nature. Such a question arose at Shasta Abbey, about Richard Nixon. We offered him merit every day, but some objected. The Abbess asked, “Who...
View ArticleRenewable Tuesday: DK Resources
I’m mining DK today, rather than the wider Internet, for good (mostly) Global Warming News. I thank everyone who posted on the subject for everything they found, and for their mostly positive attitudes...
View ArticleKos Diabetes Group: The Ozempic Ripoff
Reducing the cost of insulin in the US was a great achievement, but we have to, in Bidenspeak, “Finish the job.” Ozempic and other brands of semaglutide cost five times as much in the US as in other...
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Thurday 8/31 Good News Roundup: Everything Old is New Again
I took my own advice and started today’s GNR from my Emergency Potluck GNR draft, which I stuffed chock full of goodies, and pointers to many more goodies. They are holding up very well, far better...
View ArticleTruth Sandwiches: Back to School and Big Pharma
New Truth Brigade campaigns: Teach our Children Well, and Big Pharma Lies. The whole point of these campaigns is to motivate people to vote, so that we don’t have to take this any more, and to counter...
View ArticleMilton Friedman, Apostle of Economic Creationism
Milton Friedman did not write Capitalism and Freedom as an economist. He elaborated Hayek’s claim, that Socialism would lead to Communism and Nazism, into a Bibliolatrous theology based on a farrago of...
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Zen Koan: The Ideal and the Actual
We have looked at starter koans, to let go of Self. And the Buddha’s second koan, Skill in Means. At the top end come the Buddhist Precepts, which we will get to. In between, we have Endless Training,...
View ArticleRenewable Tuesday, 9/5: Faster! More!
The world is simultaneously breaking records for renewable energy growth and capacity, and ignoring the opportunity to do far more. Nobody can keep up with the whole firehose of new information, and...
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Good News Roundup 9/7: More Science and More FO
Oh, Noez!! Too many court cases! Too many defendants! No, not in this court! Not with this crazy person! No, you’re the crazy! No, you can’t say that! But I vas chust following orders! Oh, yes, say the...
View ArticleWoke Leadbelly and Buddha
Our lead book today, Stay “Woke”: Our Fight for Truth and Justice, recounts the origin of “Woke” in a Leadbelly song. We also have a children’s version of the story of Shakyamuni Buddha, The Day the...
View ArticleA Hindu-Buddhist Koan
Our koan for today is the Sanskrit Tat tvam asi, That are thou, a Hindu mantra that is every bit as mysterious as Joshu’s Mu. It is similarly accompanied by a variety of meditative and behavioral...
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Renewable Tuesday 9/12: Carbon Taxes vs. Subsidies; More Sources
The idea of a carbon tax comes from economist Arthur Pigou, who created the theory of externalities. It works. Therefore the industry is screaming about it. Therefore we must do more of it. And dump...
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Good News Roundup 9/14: Karma is a GOOD Mommy Doggy
Amirite?There is good karma of unselfishness that leads to happiness in community with all, and bad karma of self and other, and the rest of the opposites, that leads to living in one’s own personal...
View ArticleTruth Sandwiches Buffet
Our latest Indivisible Truth Brigade campaigns are Back to School and Big Pharma, both much in the news now. Milton Friedman taught the Wrong-Wingers to hate the public schools as necessarily...
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Economics Books: Arthur Pigou on Carbon Taxes
Our text today is the 4th edition of Arthur Cecil Pigou’s Economics of Welfare, which laid the foundations for carbon taxes and other taxes on externalities—harms caused by economic production. We have...
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Koan: His Words From My Mouth
You might remember this line from Fight Club, in which the master and disciple are in fact the same person. But we have a real application for it, apart from such hallucinations and hyper-ascetic...
View ArticleRenewable Tuesday: Climate March; EV Tipping Points
We know what to do, and multitudes are pressing business, finance, and governments to do it. Meanwhile, battery costs have reach that tipping point where EVs will soon have lower purchase prices than...
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