This eight-minute clip from PBS NewsHour does a pretty good job of synopsizing when people need to know about investing: Link: https://youtu.be/JdUKhgW1gOo An even shorter version would be to invest as much as you can in a tax-sheltered retirement or … Continue reading
Here’s yet another excellent segment from HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, this one about Confederate monuments and their connection to history. As usual he makes interesting points, and he does so very entertainingly. If you don’t want to … Continue reading
Today President Trump signed a new executive order that would, once fully implemented, allow a lot of people to obtain cheaper but lousier health insurance. (Actually, as you can see in this clip, he almost forgot to sign it, but … Continue reading
Yesterday Kevin Drum pointed out two more examples of the results of Trump’s efforts to sabotage Obamacare, mainly by hinting he will refuse to permit the legally required cost sharing reduction payments to be made but refusing to say definitely. … Continue reading
Vice President Mike Pence and his wife have a pet rabbit named Marlon Bundo, who apparently has written a children’s books about how the vice president spends his days. I hope the bunny mentions Pence’s political stunt of spending hundreds … Continue reading
One of the nuttier recent political notions is that addiction to opioid pain relievers and related drugs can be blamed on Medicaid, and more specifically the Medicaid expansion introduced by the Affordable Care Act. It seems somewhat plausible, I supposed, … Continue reading
From Jimmy Kimmel Live, Yehya reviews (in under three minutes) Blade Runner 2049, opening soon: Link: https://youtu.be/_YVDTCbi4UE by … Continue reading
Apologies for two posts in a row about this (with a gap of time between them; I’ve been a bit ill), but it appears that Trump’s efforts to undermine the Affordable Care Act are leading to a large jump in … Continue reading
I’m sorry to keep harping on this, but the Trump administration is still doing what it can to damage the Affordable Care Act at a major cost to people who need health insurance, and so far the news media have … Continue reading
The clip below is six minutes of highlights from a “Bully simulator” video game as played by Fafa and Mario. Fafa is a groundhog puppet, Mario is a red puppet, and they are the lead characters on the Globe and … Continue reading