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Hey here’s an idea
I realize that “ideas” and “thinking” are not features of the current regime in America — or should I say “Amerika” — but here’s one anyway. If trade deficits are such a crucial thing, maybe review an industry where we have a big trade surplus: education. Thousands of foreign students want to come here to… Continue reading
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Did you know…
The Nobel Prize in Economics is not a Nobel prize. It’s a fake created by the Swedish central bank in 1968. It “honors” Alfred Nobel, but the Nobel committee does not award a prize in economics. I believe that’s because they do not consider economics an actual science. And neither should we. Milton Friedman, who… Continue reading
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Point of view, time of life
It all depends on how you perceive time. If humans lived just a couple of months, we would think about the world entirely differently. Same goes if we lived centuries. Continue reading
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Unintended consequences…but predicted
The Guardian ‘s Damian Carrington on how major capitalist institutions (insurance industry) are seeing the likely outcomes of capitalist-driven climate change. “The economic value of entire regions – coastal, arid, wildfire-prone – will begin to vanish from financial ledgers. Markets will reprice, rapidly and brutally. This is what a climate-driven market failure looks like.” Continue reading
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It’s not just the cursed repubs
From Cory Doctorow:“Trump couldn’t have pulled this trick off without the Dem establishment’s total unwillingness to confront the hollowness of their economic policies. From Pelosi’s “We’re capitalists and that’s the way it is” to Hillary Clinton’s catastrophic campaign slogan, “America is already great,” the Dems’ answer to workers’ fear and anger was, “You are wrong,… Continue reading
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Not an April Fool Joke
The EU and France are more rational and intelligent than the orange baby’s régime; there’s no question about that. Nevertheless, French regulators just did something ridiculous: France fines Apple €150M for “excessive” pop-ups that let users reject tracking. John Gruber at Daring Fireball explains. In short: “App Tracking Transparency actually accomplished, in practice, via user-focused… Continue reading
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Wilhoit’s Law
“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time. … The core proposition of anti-conservatism requires… Continue reading
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When night comes…
This opinion piece by Max McCoy of the Kansas Reflector now seems disquietingly possible. I’m not sure about the shortwave radio though; are there that many of those still around? Although receivers are readily available and inexpensive. Continue reading
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Greenland
The vance quisling seems to think that Greenlanders really ought to want to become part of the US. Presumably like the people in Puerto Rico or Guam, who are US citizens but not really, particularly in the eyes of the orange baby and its mob. Why, exactly, would a Greenland resident prefer to be a… Continue reading
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Minions’ opinions?
Keith Olbermann has a fascinating take on the whole SignalGate episode: “The reason Trump’s Team of Idiot Rivals sent each other their war plans on Signal wasn’t to keep them secret from the Senate, or from future investigations it was to keep them secret from TRUMP.” He goes on to suggest that“There WAS a work-around… Continue reading
About Me
I’m Pete Harbeson, a writer located near Boston, Massachusetts. In addition to writing my own content, I’ve learned to translate for my loquacious and opinionated pup Chocolate. I shouldn’t be surprised, but she mostly speaks in doggerel. You can find her contributions tagged with Chocolatiana.