What Can't Be Cured Must Be Discussed

This is my blog for serious issues: policy (economic, social, etc.) systems and a few facets of science and technology. It will probably grow and change. I've forked off my garden blog to http://gottatendtheearth.blogspot.com/

01 June 2024

Most of that "corruption" just ... isn't

Comments will be left open on this opinion, until I see reason to close them. That rarely happens. But I shall be ruthless, and arbitrary,...

05 December 2021

Right to Die

Here's a comment I posted yesterday, well, this morning as the clock goes. The context is that Scott Sumner writes about the politics...

29 May 2021

215 dead children

I've just read the gruesome news from Kamloops Indian Residential School . It needs little further comment from me, and one should no...

21 March 2021

Vaccines (less snarky)

We knew enough to do things like stockpiling PPE and syringes, but we failed to fund them. That was bad. We didn't think about how our l...

20 March 2021

Vaccines (snarky)

Far too much is being written about them already, albeit with good reason. I think the gist of the story can be quite short: When that one ...

Things to come

I've been reading so much Substack lately that I'm tempted to express myself on various topical topics, if only to get certain opin...

17 February 2021

Declaration of allegiance

All the cool kids are at substack these days. So I've subscribed to Matt Yglesias and am following Noah Smith and (could you doubt it?...

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