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Quick hits (part II)
Going to be mixing in some older one today– I’ve got quite a backlog. 1) It is ridiculous that we are having a culture war fight over straws. Paper straws are ridiculous and plastic straws just don’t...
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Quick hits (part I)
1) Helen Pluckrose, so good on the anti-wokeness coalition: The anti-woke are people who put significant amounts of time into criticising wokeness. We can understand wokeness at essence to be a belief...
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Quick hits (part II)
1) I shared this pretty cool interactive Billie Eilish story with my daughter (oh my does she love Eilish), with a gift link, so you get a gift link, too. I am low-key obsessed with her brother and...
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Quick hits (part II)
1) I’m no royal-watcher, but I have been intrigued by Princess Catherine’s cancer diagnosis and the level of privacy around it (just announced she is in remission). Mostly, because I’m interested in...
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Return of quick hits!
Life has been busy. More on that in a couple planned upcoming posts. For now, let’s get you some quick hits: 1) Latest from the Supreme Court, “Supreme Court Seems Ready to Back Texas Law Limiting...
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Quick hits
1) This is very not great! “Washington Post Cartoonist Quits After Jeff Bezos Cartoon Is Killed: The cartoon, by Ann Telnaes, depicted the owner of The Post, Jeff Bezos, and other billionaires...
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Quick hits (part II)
1) I got Novavax Covid vaccine this year. I’ve never had much side effects issue at all with mRNA vaccines, but, wow, is the Novavax side effect profile so much better. 2) Good stuff, “Why do people...
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1) Very good 538 piece on the daunting math for Democrats to retake the Senate (until the figure out how to make up some ground with rural voters): In total, just six states represented by Democratic...
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IF you think the health insurance companies are the bad guys…
Then you probably don’t actually understand how health care policy in the US works. I’d like to think that my PS 310 students recognized this in all the discussion about the killing of the United...
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Quick hits (part I)
1) David Brook’s thought-provoking cover from the latest Atlantic. Long, but worth your time. “IdeasHow the Ivy League Broke America: The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.” His deadly...
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Somehow, I had this all queued up for last weekend and didn’t realize till now I never posted it. Many are dated, I’m sure! In it’s original form from last Saturday… —– Busy weekend, but I don’t...
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Quick Hits (part II)
1) A friend asked me about Paxlovid the other day. Alas, for most of us it’s just a placebo at this point: Bottom line: In a large RCT, Paxlovid was not found to alleviate acute COVID-19 symptoms in...
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Quick hits (part I)
1) Interesting take from Jay Caspian Kang on our polling obsession: This polls-first approach to political commentary came, in part, out of fantasy sports. If you look at today’s polling gurus, you’d...
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Quick hits (part II)
1) Noah Smith: 90s taxes weren’t so bad, were they? America needs austerity. Since 2000, we’ve borrowed a ton, basically betting that interest rates could stay low forever. That bet didn’t work out,...
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1) Noah Smith on the politics of fracking: As I see it, there are basically two groups of progressive voters. The first, a small group of extremists, would indeed be willing to abandon Harris over...
View ArticleWhy aren’t Democrats running on health care???
Come on people, this isn’t tough! Here’s the concept of a plan for an ad… Harris on health care: capping prescription drug prices, expanding Obamacare to make it more affordable, etc. Trump on health...
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Quick hits (part I)
1) So good from Ezra: How have the two parties come to be such perfect opposites, photo negatives of each other? One reason predates Trump. The other reason is Trump. There is a contradiction at the...
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Quick hits (part II)
1) Jacob Hacker, “Kamala Harris Had a Great Health Care Idea in 2019. She Should Embrace It.” From the moment Kamala Harris became the presumptive Democratic nominee, Republicans have sought to paint...
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Quick hits (part I)
1) Steve Stewart-Williams on the four laws of behavioral genetics: The End of Nature and Nurture The nature-nurture question has captivated people since at least the time of the Ancient Greeks, and...
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Quick hits (part II)
1) I so hate the tendency to get clicks by scaring parents about everything. “Are white noise machines bad? Here’s what the latest science says.: We conducted a review of the medical literature on...
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