Saturday, November 30, 2019

Produce Waste

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The PBS Newshour is showing a piece on food waste, featuring an effort in California. It is part of a weeklong effort.  This particular one...
Friday, November 29, 2019

Technocrats and Bureaucrats

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Interesting post here , arguing that Robert Moses represented the peak of technocratic government. As some of the costs of technocracy becam...
Thursday, November 28, 2019

Happy Thanksgiving

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See these charts for things to be thankful for.
Wednesday, November 27, 2019

The Mystery of California Deaths

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Articles today in the Post and Time s on a new study of trends in US death rates. Much information, including this: Note that while ...
Tuesday, November 26, 2019

Crime In DC

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My title is a bit misleading--this is a report on a poll   asking whether people had, or knew someone who had, been threatened with a gun.  ...
Monday, November 25, 2019

The Rich and Donations

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Here's a Vox post on the donations to charity by the most wealthy Amercans. As Dylan Matthews notes, there are a number of qualification...
Saturday, November 23, 2019

Where's the House

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MSNBC and others have a story that intelligence officials briefed senators on a Russian effort to blame the Ukraine for 2016 election meddl...
Friday, November 22, 2019

The Hearings

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Random points stemming from the now-ended impeachment hearings: I took Fiona Hill as saying Russia interfered with our 2016 as a state pr...
Thursday, November 21, 2019

The South and Race Relations

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Had an exchange the other day on twitter: the gist was someone was surprised at  a Southern city which was less segregated than common (I fo...
Wednesday, November 20, 2019

The Guilty Fleeth

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Daniel Drezner on twitter pointed out the significance of a question by Rep. Demings--Sondland asked President Trump: what do you want; Trum...