Monday Evening Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Paul Wells writes that the Libs’ latest climate announcement represents at least some break from their tendency to take the easy way out…
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On preferential treatment
Chris Selley’s thread trying to justify a fully effective anti-COVID strategy does manage to make an extremely strong statement. But it’s not the one he means to – and it…
This May Be Pretty Hard to Watch on a Monday Morning. Trump’s "Muscle" Unleashed.
Think of them as the 21st century version of Hitler’s Brown Shirts. As the deviant president continues to rail on about how Joe Biden and the Democrats stole the election…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Andrew Jackson summarizes and discusses Lance Taylor and Ozlem Omer‘s new book showing how the combination of wage suppression and growing inequality…
In the Runup to January 20, Are You Feeling a Bit On Edge?
Donald Trump is like the legendary wolverine that breaks into a trapper’s cabin, gorges himself on anything he can eat and then, before clearing out, pisses on the rest. Trump…
Fort Sumter, 2021
It was April 12, 1861 when the South Carolina militia attacked the US Army’s Fort Sumter, sparking the American Civil War. We might have thought this travesty was over when…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Tracy Fuller talks to Emily Oster about the process people can follow in minimizing COVID risks in the absence of full information. And…
Musical interlude
Tracey Thorn – Sister
How Much Is Too Much? When Is It Time to Say "Enough"?
The aftermath of the November elections has raised questions about whether America is too broken to heal. Congressional Republicans have served notice that they’re out to make America ungovernable again…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Carl Meyer writes about Denmark’s move to finally and fully shut down oil and gas production as part of a transition to clean…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Umair Haque discusses the tragic mistake governments in Europe and North America have made in refusing to make plans sufficient to wipe…
I Can Hear the Anti-Vaxxers Now
There was an item in yesterday’s Jerusalem Post about Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine. Apparently in the testing the vaccine may have caused the death of two patients, one of whom turned…
Putting Man’s Thumb on the Scale
Some still cannot accept that Earth has entered a new geological epoch, the first one shaped by a single species, man. However the argument against the existence of the Anthropocene…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Marco Ranaldi and Branko Milanovic study the relationship between inequality of inputs and inequality of outcomes – finding in particular that countries with…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Feline festivities.
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Adam Miller writes that it’s more important than ever to protect frontline workers as the prospect of a COVID-19 vaccine approaches. Pat…
Exceptional America and the Limitations of Joe Biden
America is exceptional. It has a society like no other. It has an economy that is an exception to the norm and, for its uniqueness, at times plays havoc on…
I’m Back, Sort Of
It’s been a while, six or seven weeks I guess. It was a culmination of factors – burn out, a dead computer, a glitch with Blogger, yada, yada, yada. The…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Elaine Godfrey writes about Iowa’s disastrous COVID-19 spread as a prime example of what happens when a government chooses to do nothing about…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Rachel Gilmore reports on polling showing that Canadians recognize (contrary to the spin of right-wing politicians looking to deflect blame) that there’s…