WaPo just posted a scoop using leaked transcripts of calls Trump had with Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto shortly after taking office. The conversations reveal Trump to be a peevish, vain weakling who’s more concerned with his image than how policy affects Americans. Hoocoodanode, right? Trump’s negotiating strategy appears to …
Pragmatics and Medicare for All
I was planning on writing a 2,000 word response to an incredible article by Joshua Holland in the Nation. But I would get bored writing “ditto” too often. You should just read it. Here are some of the highlights of the pragmatic concerns about transitioning to a pure single payer system as the means to …
On the Road and In Your Backyard
Good Morning All, This weekday feature is for Juicers who are are on the road, traveling, or just want to share a little bit of their world via stories and pictures. So many of us rise each morning, eager for something beautiful, inspiring, amazing, subtle, of note, and our community delivers – a view into …
Thursday Morning Open Thread: Job Opportunities
(Jack Ohman via GoComics.com) . On the other hand, twelve-year-old me might actually have made an effort to understand math, if I’d known jobs like “Planetary Protection Officer” were an option. From the Washington Post: There’s a vacancy at NASA, and it may have one of the greatest job titles ever conceived: planetary protection officer. …
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Open Thread: Trying to Reclaim the “Best” Colleges for “the Elites”
That's weird that the Trump administration is taking on the bump that children of alumni & major donors get in college admission. Oh, wait.. — Bethany Albertson (@AlbertsonB2) August 2, 2017 Another craven reversion to the original Gilded Age, when Ivy alumni like Teddy Roosevelt worried publicly that “our” (their) “best young men” were being …
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Big disgrace, somebody better put you back into your place
Gerard Baker, the head of the Wall Street Journal newsroom, is a disgrace, and I’m sorry that the story that he fellated Trump for an hour, then called it an interview, then forbade his “newspaper” to release the interview, isn’t getting more attention. Columbia Journalism Review: Given the criticisms that Editor in Chief Gerard Baker …
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Reading is Fundamental: The Israeli-Palestinian Dispute
I’ve remarked here several times that the Israeli-Palestinian dispute and the attempt to resolve it is the wickedest of problems. The core reason for this is that everyone pretty much has a broad understanding of what the solution should look like, but no one has been able to effectively sell it to the Israelis, the …
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