"This was the voice of moderation until 13 Sept, 2025"
by Ugh One of the selling points of the "tax reform" legislation, now commonly known as the Tax Cuts & Jobs Act, or TCJA (or the Corporate Tax Lawyer Full Employment Act), is that it would in time increase wages by a certain amount. The economists' view of how this would happen is by decreasing … Read more
Bailey Holt and Preston Cope The 11th school shooting since 1 Jan, and the 50th this academic year.
by Doctor Science Ursula K. LeGuin has died. The SFF community knew she was fading, but we hoped, illogically, that there would be a reprieve, time for more encores. For so many of us, she was our mother, our teacher, our grandmother. An icon of what we might do, and even more of what we … Read more
by wj We’re way overdue for a new open thread. So here it is. To kick-start things, I noticed something interesting this morning. A bunch of items in the Washington Post on the general theme of how things played out over the weekend regarding the shutdown. For example, this one entitled White House Strategy: Keep … Read more
by JanieM I’ve just started making and eating bread again after about twenty years of (mostly; it’s hard) avoiding wheat. I was going to write a post about these adventures, but the more I thought about it the bigger the topic got, until it was far too long for a single post. So I’m going … Read more
by wj Yesterday, in Wisconsin, there was a special election. Governor Walker had nominated a prominent state senator to be his agriculture secretary, so this was to fill his (safe) seat. It wasn’t a big deal . . . except it was. The previous (Republican, obviously) state senator was a popular guy. And the Republican … Read more
by russell One of his last speeches, an address to the Conference on New Politics, entitled The Three Evils of Society. King's three evils were war, racism, and poverty. It's pretty long, about 45 minutes, but worth a listen IMO. This speech represents some of King's later thinking, when he had broadened the scope of … Read more
by liberal japonicus It is another example of ObWi synchronicity that Sebastian writes about fears just before I went under the knife (that’s a phrase) If you really want to crank those fears up to 11, aim for a long convalescence in a hospital. I suppose you can become accustomed to it, but getting old … Read more
by Ugh More Trump because why not? Eh. I've seen responses to the latest sharted eruption from POTUS saying that it "does not represent American values," to which my response of late is "Are you sure?" Almost 63 million people voted for this waste. There is a long history of American racism in immigration (and … Read more
–Sebastian In this time of Trump, it seems almost indulgent to worry about personal fears of unverifiable things, but we can't let Trump be our only source of misery now can we? My paternal grandmother had a particularly nasty descent into Alzheimer's disease about 10 years before her death. The signs started earlier, but she … Read more