By Lambert Strehter of Corrente. “Stupid? Shit, no, he was smart as hell.” The Finn stubbed his cigarette out in a cracked ceramic Campari ashtray. “Just a total fuck-up, was…
What We Can Learn From a Dog’s Way of Looking At the World Lit Hub Why Does February (Usually) Have 28 Days? Conversable Economist Climate/Environment After wildfires, what distance are…
Conor here: Richard Murphy highlights a problem across most of the “rules-based order” world. What do readers think? If you look at the upward flow of wealth in recent decades,…
Yves here. I hate to be a curmudgeon, but people’s private practices are and should remain their own business. And I take a dimmer view of companies trying to promote…
Conor here: The 2026 and 2028 to see who can deliver more for the oligarchs for Congress and the presidency are underway. Democrats of course don’t have any problem with…
Yves here. Many readers pointed out that going after employers of undocumented migrant workers would be a way to tackle one of the underlying objections to “illegals”: that these businesses…
Yves here. This post, in analytical value, falls into the “History never repeats itself but it rhymes” category. It looks at a book ban campaign in China to see its…
By Lambert Strether. Bird Song of the Day Brown Thrasher, Seagate Park, 4926 West Blvd, Naples US-FL 26.20687, -81.80395, Collier, Florida, United States. For grins, I put the coordinates into…
Yves here. I do try to keep up, but I must confess to not having heard of kelp cultivation as a carbon capture strategy. I had assumed the article would…
As with the odds of success of the West against Russia in Ukraine or America in a military contest with China, there’s rampant denial of the impact of climate change…