Monthly Archives: March 2017

MIA (missing in action)

March 27, 2017 · by · in climate disruption, economics, History, near term human extinction, Theater gigs, unemployment · 2 Comments

My volume of blogging has fallen off a cliff in the last two months. A couple of reasons  Several reasons for this– First, I’ve become enamored of the Quora website, where I serve up saucy, special commentary on dumb questions posed by users. It’s easier than coming up with original content here, and (frankly) it’s seen […]

Trump’s healthcare heist and HR 676

March 15, 2017 · by · in election 2016, healthcare, Protests, The Trump era, unemployment · Leave a comment

People here know that I had no great love of the Obamacare/ACA solution to the problem that we’re the only wealthy industrialized country without universal health coverage. And (as I predicted here), Obamacare/ACA was going to be extremely unpopular with voters. Hillary Clinton (mistakenly) ran on Obamacare as a boon to people, but unless you were […]

Fukushima–the other shoe dropping six years later

March 5, 2017 · by · in climate disruption, near term human extinction, Protests, The Trump era · 2 Comments

I have eased off on pronouncements on Fukushima over the past year or so. For those of you not following, several reactors went into full meltdown after the town of Fukushima, Japan was hit by a giant tsunami six  years ago (the anniversary is coming up).Every indication is that things are getting worse. Reports from […]