Friday, July 4, 2025

The Super Cold Covid Vaccine Distribution Problem

The more you look at Pfizer’s vaccine, the more you have to think they really really needed that first mover advantage.

Unions Raise Worker Wellbeing

Quelle surprise! Unions look better than they used to, due to the worsening of non-union work.

James M. Buchanan, Segregation, and Virginia’s Massive Resistance

Later “Nobel” prize winner James Buchanan took his first policy stance by supporting segregation in Virginia via proto charter schools.

2:00PM Water Cooler 11/10/2020

Covid charts ~ Can Biden avoid Obama’s mistakes? ~ Manchin on fundamental change ~ Biden transition and Silicon Valley ~ Candidate concessions ~ Vote challenges ~ Boeing 737 ~ Pfizer’s vaccine makes me queasy ~ Book hoarding

The Language of Slavery

A language directive via the New York Times! Will it take hold?

Links 11/10/2020

Quick Comments on the Biden-Harris Covid Plan: Not Much Sizzle and No Steak

The Biden transition team has abandoned most of the Biden campaign Covid promises, particuarly the ones that cost money.

Victims of Nuclear Bomb Tests on U.S. Soil 75 Years Ago Continue to Seek Justice

The US conducted nuclear tests that damaged the health of generations of New Mexico residents—who remain uncompensated.

Who Is Michèle Flournoy, Biden’s Rumored Pick for Pentagon Chief?

Rumor, as in press reports, has it that Biden plans to install uber hawk Michèle Flournoy as Secretary of Defense.

“What It Took”: The Price of Democrat Victory in 2020

A cri de couer about election 2020.

2:00PM Water Cooler 11/9/2020

~ “Bright college days” ~ Election fraud affidavit emerges, sorta ~ is Pfizer Son of Gilead? ~ GSA “ascertainment” and the Biden transition ~ Malls on the upswing, or not? ~ Mason jar shortage ~ Shutting up Amazon Echo ~ SAD ~ Karl Kraus

What to Know as ACA Heads to Supreme Court — Again

The central issue in the case is whether the requirement in the law to have insurance — which remains even though Congress eliminated the penalty or tax — is constitutional.

Links 11/9/2020

Is Fear of AOC Why Chuck Schumer Is Pumping a Non-Starter “Cancel Student Debt by Executive Order” Scheme?

It’s odd to see Democrats talking about a Biden “100 days” when Obama did nothing like that when he actually did have a mandate to do so that he ignored. Did they not get the memo that their blue wave didn’t hit the beach? It’s even odder to see Chuck Schumer affecting a Damascene conversion, […]

The Collateral Damage to Children’s Education During Lockdown

High-quality before and after tests in the Netherlands suggest at-home lockdown education was a complete bust for primary school kids.