Recently the health insurance company Aetna announced that starting in 2017 it would no longer be selling policies through the Affordable Care Act exchanges in several states because it was losing too much money. Curiously, though, one of those states … Continue reading
To many people it seems self-evident that the purpose of a primary election (or caucus) is to let the members of a political party choose their party’s nominees. If so, it pretty directly follows that primaries ought to be closed … Continue reading
This election season there has been some discussion of open versus closed primary elections, with a movement among conservative Republicans in favor of closed primaries and among progressive Democrats (notably Sanders supporters) for open ones. This got me curious about … Continue reading
George Manbiot’s succinct August 3 piece in The Guardian takes note of how well-to-do fossil fuel interests continue to promote misinformation about global warming in news coverage. As most of us are well aware, last year was the warmest ever … Continue reading
A few weeks a couple of friends of mine asked me for some investment advice about their retirement savings, and if I’d known about this video I would have just told them to watch it. I highly recommend it. Link: … Continue reading
In the following very short video American writer John Green shows a little of what life is like for young people in the Zaatri refugee camp on an arid plain in northern Jordan near the Syrian border. The camp was … Continue reading
This one is a couple of weeks old but still quite funny (and in passing informative): Stephen Colbert travels to Jon Stewart’s off-the-grid cabin and among other things reveals that the GOP nominee for president is not Jeb Bush. (The … Continue reading
“Melania Trump” delivers a hilarious defense of plagiarism charges on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: Link: https://youtu.be/Wh1wctQNKRM The Melania impersonator is Tony-winning actress and singer Laura Benanti, interviewed by Colbert here: Link: https://youtu.be/TZe3oavADVw by … Continue reading
There’s a commercial on television recently that claims raising chickens without antibiotics is just a scam to charge more money. After all, it says, federal rules don’t permit selling chickens with any antibiotic residue. Of course, that’s not the problem. … Continue reading
NBC Late Night host Seth Myers explains an important part of the nature of reality to a segment of Democrats: Link: https://youtu.be/HvV2JY8kbgI Lately I find I often feel like grabbing certain segment of the populace by the scruff of the … Continue reading