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The Coward Goes to War Against America

Pulling from my subscriptions today as both Joel and I were busy. Was sick for a day and a half also. Robert Reich encourages hie reader to post his commentaries where they can be read. This one commentary should be read. Do not get sucked into Trump’s trap by reacting violently. “Trump wants Americans to […]

“Real Election choice was between a psychotic, irrational, criminal, racist, old man, and a middle-age, intelligent, black woman with governmental experience”

Posting of a comment by J.P. McJefferson to the earlier post “American Idiot(s),” Angry Bear. J.P. hits the same note I have been discussing in earlier commentaries about voting here and here. To add to J.P.’s comment on Angry Bear; “73.6% (or 174 million people) of the citizen voting-age population was registered to vote.” And […]

American Idiot(s)

Critiquing the conscience of the nation’s citizens. We should be asking why we arrived at this point. Wasn’t the first trump presidency enough to learn from and soundly reject a second presidency? The boldness and stupidity of his edicts were not what the nation needed. We are slowly slipping back into an environment of a […]

Structural Racism and Disparities in Youth Exposed to Firearm Violence

The takeaway in this short report about firearm violence is “Black and Hispanic children were more likely to witness or be shot. Black children were 100 times, and Hispanic children 25 times, more likely than White children to be shot in Chicago and other major US cities. They are at greater risk of being shot […]

“Artificial intelligence creates more academic dishonesty than it detects!”

by Sandwichman EconoSpeak Back in December, 2024, The Wall Street Journal carried a feature on an economics preprint research article that showed surprising findings. David Autor and Daron Acemoglu lauded the preprint. “It’s fantastic,” said Acemoglu. “I was floored,” said Autor. The two economists appeared in a photo flanking the author, Aidan Toner-Rodgers. Turns out Autor was right. The […]

SWI swissinfo.ch 2024 Annual Report

Swiss review of Global, European and U.S. occurrences in the world today and its impact upon their country and its people and well as others. It is interesting if you have time to read such. I would read their news when I could as well as the German reports while in Europe. SWI swissinfo.ch 2024 […]

Position Pay Incentives Can Backfire

I was nosey and decided to read this article and see if I agree with it. I look to the throughput of people and machinery to gauge if the plan and people can satisfy the requirements. Plans are not ironclad and may need to be changed to meet what people can do in a setting. […]