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Economics Book: Robert Reich, Saving Capitalism for the many, not the few
Our economic system is not a fact of nature, but a human arrangement dominated by the interests of the rich most of the time. But what if a majority put in a government determined to change that, let’s...
View ArticleThe Koan of Achievement
Fake Buddha quote: Shakyamuni Buddha was asked: “What have you gained from Meditation?” He replied: “Nothing. However, let me tell you what I lost: Anger, Anxiety, Depression, Insecurity, Fear of Old...
View ArticleRenewable Tuesday: Counting the Lies, Carrying Out the Truth
Heatmap: We Fact Checked Everything Trump Has Said About Electric Vehicles Since 2021From misplaced range anxiety to trepidation over electric tanks [and I added facepalm emojis 🤦 to the biggest...
View ArticleDiabetes: Another CGM, and a News Roundup
Another CGM is expected to hit the market this summer, with support from United Health Care. The FDA is doing its part. Now we have to talk to various people about Medicare and other programs taking up...
View ArticleThursday 1/25 Good News Roundup, Election Madness, and MSM Watch
There is no shortage of Good News for us, but we have to acknowledge that the MSM has gone mad, MAD I tell you, for the latest day’s news in the remaining year-long Elephant-Donkey race. Well, I won’t...
View ArticleEconomics Book: Betting on Famine
Famine is no secret, but far too many pretend that it is nothing to do with them, while deliberately fomenting it and profiting from it, or using it as a genocidal weapon of war. Betting on Famine, by...
View ArticleBoosting Biden on Untruth Antisocial
Many people don’t want to be on any of the social media sites known for disinformation, which is a sane idea. Some of us particularly want to be on those sites to counter the disinformation, a...
View ArticleA Medical Koan
Doctors confront the suffering of birth, old age, disease, and death routinely, as their patients also must. We rightly praise skilled doctors who save lives, but those who overcome the fear of death...
View Article1/30 Renewable Tuesday: The 100% Club
Not long ago, there were 8 countries at 100% renewable electricity, and 12 more above 90%. The bottom of the heap is Turkmenistan, at 0.01%. This is remarkable progress and inexcusable delay at the...
View ArticleDiabetes: Kidney Problems
This is nephropathy not neuropathy, which we have discussed several times. It is kidney damage, with a variety of possible consequences, including a need for ACE inhibitors, dialysis or transplants....
View Article2/1 Good News Roundup: Worth the Wait, I Promise
We had hoped for a decision from Judge Engoron yesterday on the penalties in Trump’s NY fraud trial, promised for the end of January, but no. I was looking forward to reporting to you on the pointing...
View ArticleEconomics Book: Small is Beautiful: Economics as Though People Mattered
People do matter, as we have observed from Adam Smith to Amartya Sen. But real people are too often invisible to academic economists, and especially to economic ideologues, most notably Milton Friedman...
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Boosting Biden Outreach: Make Your Own Dark Brandon Memes
It’s HowTo Day today. HowTo make your own Dark Brandon memes, and share them. There has been a lot of good news reporting on events that are boosting Biden, or about Biden boosting America in one way...
View ArticleThe Koan of Right Livelihood
We talk a lot about what we should understand, but what should we do? At the center of the Noble Eightfold Path is Right Livelihood, which stands in stark contrast to all of the ways that people can...
View ArticleRenewable Tuesday: EVs Going Postal
The much-reviled Louis DeJoy is actually overseeing vast improvements at the US Postal Service, including plans to purchase 66,000 electric postal delivery vans. IRA funding was essential to getting...
View ArticleDiabetes: Studies of Green Tea
We have been looking at all sorts of new medical devices and medications for diabetes here for months now, so it is refreshing to be able to talk about simply drinking tea as a possible preventative...
View Article2/8 Good News Roundup: Trump Reduces Self to Nothing
The Reductio ad Absurdum/reduction to nonsense/proof by contradiction is a venerable logical device, important to Euclid and many others. But we are not used to the Reductio ad Nihilum, the reduction...
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Reaching Out to Boost Biden on Pinterest
I have collected 649 Dark Brandon et al. Pins in a Pinterest board with eight sections, and 93 in MAGA Tears, available to anyone to use on social media or add to the DK image library. We saw last week...
View ArticleKoan: Reductio ad Nihilum
I just now searched for “He is nothing” E. Jean Carroll on Google, and got 22 top hits on her appearance on the Rachel Maddow show with her lawyers talking about it, and other aspects of the case. How...
View ArticleRenewable Tuesday: Old King Coal isn't So Merry
King Coal has been dying the death of a thousand cuts, one power plant at a time. Today seems like a tipping point—#RenewableEnergy was trending last night on X as I wrote this, with 1,436 posts. I...
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