Take a knee began with Colin Kaepernick, the original take a knee’r, conflating high volume social protest with NFL level player ability. Then in a mixed up public always looking [ … ]
Star Trek Discovery. No BS review
I grew up watching the original Star Trek. I was too young to see its first go-round, it had just been cancelled. I was the generation that loved it [ … ]
Personal Income Taxes Are Higher than Corporate Income Taxes in Large Emerging Economies
October 3, 2017 Most advanced and large emerging economies have higher top marginal personal income tax rates than statutory corporate income tax rates, in part because governments have realized corporations [ … ]
When healthcare kills
The only way to systemically lower costs is to make prevention and transparency the top priorities. As I have been noting for a decade, the broken U.S. healthcare system will [ … ]
Monday Morning Roundup: More on the Sanctions
North Korea policy is once again careening between competing administration statements. Over the weekend Secretary Tillerson held open the door to negotiations, stating the fact that the US has channels [ … ]
We get it, you did a blog about vaping
I love teasing my friends who use e-cigarettes. There’s something intrinsically uncool about e-cigs – they’re gadgety, a bit silly-looking thanks to their chunkiness and the huge clouds of vapour [ … ]
Beware the Facebook, Google and Amazon company town
I want the people who work at Pullman to have the advantages of seeing the best,” Pullman said. “I want no cheap, crude, inartistic work in any department. I have [ … ]
Moon Jae-in’s Speech at the UN General Assembly
Before piling on President Moon, let’s be honest: he is in an absolutely impossible position. Squeezed between Kim Jong Un, President Trump, Prime Minister Abe, his supporters, and an invigorated [ … ]
Against rural broadband
Society got very excited about the invention of the car. From the 1950s onwards especially, governments around the world began huge road-building projects, bulldozing swathes of cities for huge multi-lane [ … ]
Bill Kristol lies about yesterday, today and tomorrow
The respected American political commentator Bill Kristol is consistently wrong about things, and it’s funny, until you start seeing dead bodies on your lawn. He predicted that Marco Rubio would [ … ]










