Ron Jeremy: US porn star declared unfit for sex crimes trial
Ron Jeremy – who denies charges including rape – is deemed mentally incompetent by a judge.
Parents angry as Texas football practice sends students to hospital
A coach is on leave after the football players were reportedly forced to do 400 push-ups.
Elon Musk trial: Prospective jurors call him narcissistic, smart
“The claim is that the investors felt that they were defrauded by Musk’s tweet, that he was considering taking Tesla private and critically, that he had funding secured for it,”…
Twitter auctions bird statue and other office furniture
After axing staff and scrapping perks, Twitter is offloading surplus supplies.
Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, and the Tenor of Our Time | naked capitalism
Yves here. The Hayekian fantasy, and Isaiah Berlin’s closely aligned belief, that the measure of freedom is the ability to take unfettered individual action, shows how Industrial-Revolution created infrastructure and…
A Shrinking, Aging China May Have Backed Itself Into a Corner
China’s leaders have long known that the country is nearing a demographic crossroads. Policymakers have warned that China must prepare for a slowly shrinking population and an era of fewer…
Police Violence Reached an All-Time High Last Year—Are We Ready to Shrink Police Budgets? | naked capitalism
Yves here. While this article usefully points out how police abuses of power continue to increase, simple-minded solutions like “give them less money” provides no assurance that behavior will change.…
Statehouse Democrats Embrace an Unfamiliar Reality: Full Power
LANSING, Mich. — For the first time in 40 years, a legislative session began in Michigan last week with a Democratic governor, Democratic control of both the House and Senate,…
How ‘Extraordinary Measures’ Can Postpone a Debt Limit Disaster
“Debt limit impasses have also repeatedly disrupted implementation of Treasury’s cash management policy — with knock-on effects for money markets,” Joshua Frost, assistant Treasury secretary for financial markets, explained in…
Why China’s Shrinking Population Is Cause for Alarm
New data released this week by the Chinese government revealed that China’s population has begun to shrink, a momentous shift that will have broad ripple effects both domestically and globally.…