October 2024
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Schrödinger’s Republic.
After 30 years of constant assault from the Right wing, they have finally gotten their wish. This election is basically a referendum on whether or not we get to keep this Republic, as currently constructed. And roughly half of the voters seem quite happy to buy what they are selling. In fact, the polls would Continue reading
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Causes, Effects…
The American Prospect has an article detailing the “Chasm” between Blue Connecticut and Red Oklahoma. The tl; dr takeaway is best expressed graphically. From the article: CT and OK went from having identical life expectancies in 1959, to a gap that started back in the very early 1970s and continues today. Virtually all of this Continue reading
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Friday Tidbits
Home, sick. (As opposed to “Home, working’). Currently in that ‘can’t do much yet, can’t sleep any more, either’ phase. So, a few bored Friday afternoon tidbits over a slowly-eaten hard boiled egg. Looks like both Antarctica and the Sahara are “greening”. One due to general warming, the other due to unusual changes in rainfall Continue reading
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Walz/Vance Debate
Vance presented as a slick one-man focus group. He even managed to scan as A Real Boy at times, as opposed to the unholy Yarvinite Egregore he is in reality (and online, and at rallies, and probably everywhere else). Very good at lying, but not at convincing. Not so much a Gish-Gallop as a Gish-Avalanche. Continue reading
no peanuts in church... 