Year: 2016

Brad DeLong–Mythbuster

http://www.bradford-delong.com/2016/12/is-the-problem-one-of-insufficient-market-wages-inadequate-so cial-insurance-polanyian-disruption-of-patterns-of-life-.html Not normally a fan of Brad deLong, but I can appreciate his...

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The Good Guys Die Young

Lawrence Colburn Good Guys: Hugh Thompson, Jr. (April 15, 1943 – January 6, 2006) Thompson exhibited the highest level of heroism that day in March 1968.  At personal physical risk, tepping in to stop an atrocity and...

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Tom Sullivan – Back to Comfy Chairs

Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo: Back to Comfy Chairs Why I keep saying the donkey is dead. The Democratic Party does not yet (a month after the election) have strong resistant leadership to face down the Trump juggernaut. And Obama...

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Voting Patterns, Carbon Emissions

Here is an article at The Atlantic that I think is a must read. In general it takes how states voted and ties it to their economic development, but through the prism of carbon admissions. Then discusses Trump’s oil...

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"How to tell if it’s fake news"

Mercury News has a Google News-featured article up titled “How to tell if it’s fake news.” It contains the same bullshit, boilerplate “fake news” scare meme that the rest of the media has been...

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