By a 9-0 margin, the Supreme Court Inflicts Mortal Wounds to the NCAA Yesterday, the Supreme Court, by a gob-smacking 9-0 margin, ruled that the NCAA’s limits on education-related expense reimbursements to “student-athletes” violates anti-trust… Read More »Talented Black Athletes Should Be Paid Market Value. Everything Else is Bullsh*t
This piece in the New York Times is a few days old but I’m just getting around to posting it. It’s a useful resetting of expectations vis a vis Covid and what comes next for… Read More »We May Never Reach Herd Immunity
Everything you ever wanted to know about the origins of a virus that’s killed more than three million people In the piece below, the science writer Nicholas Wade argues that in the early days of… Read More »Did Conflicted Western Scientists Obscure the Truth about Covid’s Origins?
The following opinion piece was written by Liz Cheney in the Washington Post: The GOP is at a turning point. History is watching us. The Washington Post · by Liz Cheney May 5, 2021 In… Read More »Liz Cheney: The GOP is at a turning point. History is watching us.
There are public health officials who think those who’ve been vaccinated no longer need to wear masks in most situations. Needless to say, the answer has significant political implications for Democrats. From the Washington Post:… Read More »After Vaccination, Should We Take Off Our Masks?
Excellent piece from Richard North Patterson in Bulwark (a home for displaced Republicans) which describes eloquently and in detail the neuroses of today’s Republican Party. Here’s a sample: Substantively, the GOP is largely barren of… Read More »Today’s Republican Party: Burn It Down
Wow, talk about getting your knickers in a twist. Joe Biden’s plan to tax capital gains as ordinary income for people making over $1 million a year really hurt the feelings of some on Wall… Read More »Claim that Cap Gains Hike Will Hurt American Prosperity Is Ridiculous
Violent Insurrection Still Okay (Unless People of Color Are Present) Bill Urgently Needed to Stop Violent Protests that Didn’t Happen in Florida (But Might!) DeSantis Bids to Be “New and Improved” Trump: Same Great Racism… Read More »Today’s Republican Party: Florida Ends 1st Amendment Rights for Peaceful Protesters
Maureen Dowd of the New York Times calls out the “experts” who say now is not the right time for the US to leave Afghanistan. My opinion is that this is the right strategic decision… Read More »US Withdrawal from Afghanistan Will Be a Bloodbath. We Should Still Leave.
Aaron Blake of the Wa-Post explains how white supremacy is the newest “plank” of the post-Trump GOP: The GOP’s descent into ‘replacement theory’ and ‘nativist dog whistles’ By Aaron Blake, April 17, 2021 If there’s… Read More »Today’s Republican Party: Brown People KEEP OUT!