Oops my mistake. There is no sanity to student loans lasting a lifetime. Not when every other loan people have, get in trouble with, is forgiven through bankruptcy. It does not matter when or what they do is stupid, miscalculated, abused, spent unnecessarily, etc. The loans are forgiven. The only difference here is a student […]
The other person, I follow on healthcare and the ACA. He lives in Michigan like I did before we moved to the desert. Kind of miss the Green. “Dear Democrats: I’m the guy who’s moving heaven & earth to get the tax credits extended, and I’m telling you not to cave for a short-term fix.” […]
The philosopher Joseph Heath has a critical but thought-provoking review of Kōhei Saitō’s ecotopian book Slow Down. My takeaway is less pessimistic than Heath’s, but there are important lessons here for all of us: It’s discouraging to go into a classroom and find it full of students who believe, almost verbatim, every bad idea that […]
The review is interesting enough so as to take it with you on a 12-hour flight to Japan, change flights and then off to Asia. I have done such a number of times as watching the little screen gets to be boring. Not much to do other than read or sleep. The later comes after […]
The one-handed economist I read this 1984 book maybe 30 years ago, and I remember that it was a gripping sci-fi tale. I also knew that William Gibson more or less invented the “cyperpunk” genre with this book — his first! I won’t describe the plot, which is quite twisty, or any big lessons learned (it’s fiction after […]
Since 2013, I have been writing on student loans. Just about then I ran into Alan Collinge who has a site on Facebook called Student Loan Justice. If you are not aware, student loans are the most unforgiving type of loan a person can have as a student, a parent, or an adult attempting to […]
Which is BS. Hmmm. It appears what came rather easily in the past is now going to be made more difficult due to political interests rather than scientific knowledge on the issue of Covid vaccines. This has come rather easily in the past. And now, I need a prescription? Did Covid go away? No. It […]
Briefly . . .Ultraprocessed Foods and Cardiometabolic Health. Characterizing foods people are eating today . . . people in the US aged 1 year or older obtain an average of 55% of their calories from eating ultra-processed foods. Maya Vadiveloo, PhD, RD, an associate professor in the department of nutrition at the University of Rhode […]
It is even dangerous in some places. I did go to schools without air conditioning and just fans. It was difficult at times when we got closer to Summer. Then too, we were off from late June till just after Labor Day. We missed the hottest of days. Being in Chicago did not expose us […]
Just read that Rhode Island public radio and public broadcasting will have to downsize, but are far from out of business. That looks to be the case for many blue states and blue cities in red states. You know who will be hurt? Trump voters in rural parts of red states. And not because they […]