Category Archives: Water Cooler

2:00PM Water Cooler 3/23/2020

Today’s Water Cooler: Biden base v. Sanders base, Biden’s donors, Klobuchar, Sanders, Warren’s donors, employment situation, ventilator manufacturing, Fed QE, climate change, national monuments, “listening to the body,” #COVID19 (chloroquinine, TB), #COVID19 and the poor, self-isolation

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2:00PM Water Cooler 3/17/2020

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Politics “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist 51 “They had one weapon left and both knew it: treachery.” –Frank Herbert, Dune “They had learned nothing, and forgotten nothing.” –Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord Key dates coming fast now, so I […]

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2:00PM Water Cooler 3/10/2020

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Politics “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist 51 “They had one weapon left and both knew it: treachery.” –Frank Herbert, Dune “They had learned nothing, and forgotten nothing.” –Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord Key dates coming fast now, so I […]

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2:00PM Water Cooler 3/6/2020

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, I had a brief power failure at 1:55PM, after which the modems were confused and unhappy; I’ll do a bit of clean-up now, including the plant! –lambert UPDATE All done! Politics “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist […]

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2:00PM Water Cooler 3/4/2020

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Politics “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist 51 “They had one weapon left and both knew it: treachery.” –Frank Herbert, Dune Key dates coming fast now, so I added some counters: Some of the next primaries. (I picked the […]

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