Budd Shenkin
Vaxxing: Reason Alone Can’t Fix It, But Moral Suasion & Mandates Will
They can’t stop asking, what do we have to do to get everyone vaccinated? Here is the current chart in California by county, comparing number of recent cases (blue bars) to percent vaccinated (green bars), as printed in the East Bay Times on September 25th. It’s pretty obvious that the longer the green bar, the shorter the blue bar, and vice-versa. Vaccination works.
The V Bottom of American Politics
It’s what we hoped for.
Surprise Medical Billing: Outrage and Betrayal (Thy Name is Schumer)
Congress can rarely ameliorate even patent outrages. We know this. One person’s outrage is another person’s profit, and the profiteer usually has more cash and more leverage than the outragee. But, it looked like one medical outrage was actually about to be solved, at least partially, by this highly partisan Congress, and highly partisan administration.
The Doomsday Machine
I have been hit like a ton of bricks by Daniel Ellsberg’s new book, The Doomsday Machine, Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner.[1]
Strategy Memo
OK, Meryl Streep is a wonderful actress, a very smart and eloquent lady. But I think her Golden Globes statement, while striking and eloquent, was a strategic mistake. And here’s why – because it puts style over substance, and not everybody agrees with putting down Trump’s style.
Sometimes It’s Hard to See the Comedy
“The Human Comedy” is something you watch, and if you’re nice and mature and secure, you watch yourself being part of it.
But how can you view Trump as a part of a comedy?