Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Coffee Break: Democrats Looking to Coast on Anti-Trump Sentiment

Democratic Party leadership is sending signals that they intend to coast on anti-Trump sentiment rather than serious self-examination, open primaries, and vigorous policy debate. The ‘Blue MAGA’ cult behavior of Dem voters means they’re probably right.

Near-Term Climate News and Other Tall Tales

A new climate sighting plus AI fakery.

Improving Indoor Air Quality Might Save Your Life

Cost-effective ways exist to improve your indoor air quality that will reduce your COVID and flu risk, lower your cancer and lung disease risk, and eliminate headaches and sleepiness caused by poor ventilation.

Links 12/22/2025

Pax Germanica 

 Has the German—and the EU—political class dug so deep, they’re already comfortable at bomb shelter depth?

Some Perhaps Not Fully Anticipated Effects of Increased AI Use: Evidence Doubts, Fraud and Fraud Containment

Some important second-order effects of greater AI use, such as greater ease of perpetrating fraud and what might responses might be

Links 12/21/2025

The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: An Ideal Husband (1969) Run Time: 1H 22M Bonus: Woo!

An Ideal Husband is a humourous play about past mistakes and future serendipities.

These 15 Coal Plants Would Have Retired. Then Came AI and Trump.

Utilities started reversing coal power’s “irreversible” decline. Will it last?

Links 12/20/2025

Michael Hudson: Trump Floundering Efforts to Shore Up US Hegemony

Why Trump’s National Security Strategy and his efforts to shore up dollar dominance are proofs of weakness.

Has Public Debt Become Unmanageable?

Why alarmism about public debt is fundamentally misguided.

Coffee Break: Climate, Eugenics, and a Note on mRNA Vaccines

Part the First: Climate, “What, Me Worry?”  Once again Alfred E. Neuman comes to mind as “policy-based science” remains the order of the day in the Current Administration as Trump Administration Plans to Break Up Premier Weather and Climate Research Center. The Trump administration said it will be dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research […]

Ethnic Cleansing, Trump Style: Administration Moves to Send Asylum Seekers to Uganda, Honduras and Ecuador

Yes, the Trump Administration is seeking to shunt asylum seekers to Uganda, Honduras, and Ecuador, presumably <1>pour décourager les autres.

Links 12/19/2025