May 22, 2018
The recent mass shootings in the US all have one thing in common: misogyny. Plenty of misogyny in the rest of the world, but no other developed nation that worships firearms.
May 21, 2018
May 20, 2018
Resentment of Crazy-Rich Americans Isn’t Just Envy. People are bothered by a sense that the system is rigged and unfair. People are rightly disturbed by the reality of the situation.
40 Cellphone-Tracking Devices Discovered Throughout Washington. Am sure every major city has dozens if not hundreds of these. They are cheap and effective, so of course they do.
May 19, 2018
May 18, 2018
Community Colleges and how easy it is to make fun of someone else. Community colleges provide a better actual education than the vast majority of four-year universities.
Almost half of US families can’t afford basics like rent and food. That’s ok, they can eat FREEDOM and live in LIBERTY.
Yes, Neoliberalism Is a Thing. Don’t Let Economists Tell You Otherwise. Economists like to use the colossally stupid Cosma Shalizi-like argument that if you can’t point to something labeled “neoliberalism” somewhere, that it doesn’t exist.
May 17, 2018
May 16, 2018
Medical Mystery: Something Happened to U.S. Health Spending After 1980. Hmm, what else happened about that time? I guess we’ll never know!
May 15, 2018
All major U.S. carriers give your real-time location info to third parties. This is the dystopia we were promised.
May 14, 2018
How Housing Markets Work — and Why They’re at a Breaking Point. Housing market in the US has been broken for decades.
May 13, 2018
China’s bullet train is a startling example of how far behind US infrastructure has become. Yep. I go to another country and it feels like I am in the future.
May 12, 2018
May 11, 2018
Voices on the left are rising in the US. Why aren’t they in mainstream media? Could impact profits, so will never get a voice.
May 10, 2018
May 9, 2018
May 8, 2018
May 7, 2018
Old people can’t open new tabs and it’s fueling our descent into hell. Not just old people; in my experience, about half of users have no idea how to work with tabs.
May 6, 2018
Ironically, Alanis Morissette never got enough credit. I always preferred Alanis’ work to Fiona Apple’s.