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What’s a pathological optimist to do when all about her is despair?
I just read today’s New York Times opinion section, after which I dipped into the readers’ comments, as I always do. Despair, hopelessness, monumental depression — about us, the United States. Secession, too, had its proponents among my fellow readers, … Continue reading
Posted in Guns in the U.S. of A., Human rights, The Facts of Life, voting rights
Tagged "Pushkin Hills", Andrey Kurkov, Brown v Topeka, Chris Murphy, Jamelle Bouie, James Wood, Michelle Cottle, Michelle Goldberg, New York Times, Paul Krugman, secession, Sergei Dovlatov, The New Yorker, The Talk of the Town
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Talking about plant-based beer…
Today, Paul Krugman does a number on the latest crazy craze in GOP myth-making — part of Joe Biden’s policy addressing climate change is…banning meat! And our summer barbecues will be reduced to drinking plant-based beer and eating grilled Brussels … Continue reading
Posted in climate change, The Facts of Life
Tagged Brussels sprouts, Paul Krugman, plant-based beer
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Today’s great sentence, from Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman is about the only person who can get me to understand macro-economics. If that’s what it’s called nowadays. You know, gigantic-scale things involving gigantic amounts of money. Today he takes on the new Biden tax proposal and a … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, The Facts of Life, The filthy rich, The War On Workers, Trumpism
Tagged Janet Yellen, Paul Krugman, Trump tax cuts
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