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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...
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