The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, popularly known as “Obamacare,” was signed into law five years and one week ago. Here’s a compact seven-and-a-half-minute video clip assessing how well it’s working from prolific writer and commentator John Green, who incidentally buys his own … Continue reading
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John Green has a gift for presenting a subject succinctly, as in the video below that runs under four minutes. Ostensibly talking to his brother Hank, a very successful entrepreneur, he talks very informatively about arguments for and against raising … Continue reading
He’s surprised that some of the unlikely ones actually seem to work. So am I. Link: http://youtu.be/3fQlYYZQBM4 Some YouTube comments suggest the failed hacks actually work but Green didn’t do them right. I take that with a pillar of salt. … Continue reading
John Green (the guy in those history videos I link to most Sundays) explains why healthcare reform encourages people to start new businesses and create more jobs: Link: http://youtu.be/R7LF5Vj2n64 (I included his previous video essay on the high cost of … Continue reading
At the start of last week the latest report from the Social Security Trustees (link) was released, leading to predictable but misleading warnings that the system was going to “run dry.” For example, the headline on this article from the … Continue reading
Senator John McCain has died of the same illness that took the life of my youngest brother just short of two years ago. I disagreed with Senator McCain about a lot of things and like all of us he was … Continue reading
The immigration debate is still going on in Congress and may lead to another government shutdown. Part of the problem is that President Trump keeps changing his position, and as the following clip demonstrates he seriously (in fact, bizarrely) misunderstands … Continue reading
There’s currently a debate going on about some NFL team members kneeling during the national anthem to protest widely reported instances of police violence toward minority groups. President Trump has called the players in question “sons of bitches” while team … Continue reading
David Wallace-Wells has an article in July 10 issue of New York magazine summarizing the best current knowledge about the consequences of doing nothing to address human-caused global warming. The magazine’s website has an updated and corrected copy of the … Continue reading
The National Center for Science Education (NCSE) recently published an interesting report (PDF) of a survey of U.S. science teachers that gives an idea how they are talking about climate change. The good news is that the subject is fairly … Continue reading