“Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears.” ―Nassim Nicholas Taleb By Lambert Strether of Corrente Continuing on with our circuitous slog through volume one of Obama’s third autobiography, I want to take a look at two incidents on the 2008 campaign trail: The first, where Obama throws his […]

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. I hope everybody’s Thanksgiving was excellent, and safe! –lambert Bird Song of the Day #COVID19 At reader request, I’ve added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is the site. Case count by United States region: The Midwest in detail (with New York, […]

Scores of deaths were not reported to occupational safety officials from the earliest days of the pandemic through late October.

Danish Mayfly chosen as 2021’s Insect of the Year Euronews Moths draped in stealth acoustic cloak evade bat sonar Chemistry World McKinsey advised Purdue to offer rebates for opioid overdoses Axios Summary of the Amazon Kinesis Event in the Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region AWS #COVID19 Why Is the Risk of Coronavirus Transmission so High Indoors? […]

By Nick Cunningham, an independent journalist covering the oil and gas industry, climate change and international politics. Originally published at DeSmogBlog. In 2005, Deb Evans and her husband Ron Schaaf bought a piece of property in Klamath County, Oregon, where they hoped to build a house and selectively harvest timber on the land. They saw […]

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day That nutchatch is really scolding. Maybe a cat? #COVID19 At reader request, I’ve added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is the site. Case count by United States region: There’s a drawing back from the vertical, perhaps […]

By Lambert Strether of CorrenteReaders, I have purchased Obama’s latest autobiography, along with the complimentary handtruck needed to take it home, and now I’m going to have to pull on my yellow waders and read it, as much as I can stand. So that post is coming, but that post is not this post, so […]

It is vital to escape the standard binary debates of state versus market or public versus private ownership.

By Lambert Strether of Corrente This will be a short post, partly because it’s one those “I went to the swamp, but I didn’t find the bird” posts, but also because I want to make time for a clean-up on aisle Covid. America’s Covid-19 debacle can be, in one telling, traced to a failure of […]

Deep Frozen Arctic Microbes Are Waking Up Scientific American D.C. Researchers Spent The Last Two Years Taking Photos For The Cat Census DCist. Now they’re counting them. The Uniqueness of Mammals Area In California, 1 million people lack access to clean water High Country News Port of Los Angeles Reports Busiest Month Ever on Loaded […]

Giorgio Barba Navaretti, Professor of Economics at the University of Milan, Scientific Director of the Centro Studi Luca d’Agliano and CEPR Research Fellow, Giacomo Calzolari, Professor of Economics, EUI Florence, Bologna University and Research Fellow CEPR, and Alberto Pozzolo, Professor of Economics at Roma Tre University. Originally published at VoxEU. The default of Wirecard highlights […]

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, trying to work on queued comments right now brings the site down (although fortunately only for us, not for you). So we apologize to any readers whose comments have not been released. We are working on the problem, and hope to report success in the near future. Wish […]

By Victoria Knight, Kaiser Health News reporter. Originally published at Kaiser Health News. The holidays are approaching just as COVID-19 case rates nationwide are increasing at a record-breaking pace, leading to dire warnings from public health experts. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued cautions and updated guidelines related to family gatherings. Dr. […]

Lambert here: Sorry for the lack of original posts, but our continuing server-side difficulties have made production really, really difficult. Hopefully, we will be back to normal soon. By Sharon Kelly and Frances Rankin. Originally published at DeSmog Blog. This article was published as part of the launch of DeSmog’s Agribusiness Database, where you can […]

Lambert here: Sorry for the lack of original posts, but our continuing server-side difficulties have made production really, really difficult. Hopefully, we will be back to normal soon. By Daniel Hamermesh, Distinguished Scholar, Barnard College; Network Coordinator, IZA. Originally published at VoxEU. The Covid-19 pandemic has changed not only how people spend time, but with […]

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, the server has been a little wobbly today. Hopefully all is well now. –lambert Bird Song of the Day The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is back online! #COVID19 At reader request, I’ve added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is […]

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, I’m sorry this is late. Our server problems really threw me for a loop. I had hoped to take a quick romp through the wonderful world of peat, but as it turns out, peat is complex in every way: By its nature in the biosphere, in its classification, […]

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, the server has been a little wobbly today. Hopefully all is well now. –lambert Bird Song of the Day Unfortunately, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology is still down for scheduled maintenance, and won’t be back up until 8:00AM on November 19 (we hope). Here is a Cornell Feederwatch […]

By Liz Theoharis, a theologian, ordained minister, and anti-poverty activist. Director of the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights and Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary in New York City and co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, she is the author of Always With Us? What Jesus Really Said About […]

By Gary Brecher.Republished from the Radio War Nerd subscriber newsletter. Subscribe to Radio War Nerd co-hosted with Mark Ames for podcasts, newsletters and more!. Posted with THE EXILED. There’s a gigantic, well-organized, extremely violent fascist group with tens of thousands of active members in Germany right now. And nobody notices. You’d think all the fascist-hunters would have sniffed it out by now, but it […]

Lambert: Sounds a bit like angst, but more appropriate for our current epistemological crises. I’m not sure our political class is big on creating a feeling of shared suffering, though. By Francisco Gallegos, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Wake Forest University and Carlos Alberto Sánchez, Professor of Philosophy, San José State University. Cross-posted from Alternet. Ever […]

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Friday the 13th, hoo boy! A bit more from the Augean stables coming shortly… –lambert Bird Song of the Day Owls seem to be really hard to record, for some reason. #COVID19 At reader request, I’ve added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. […]

How Bunny the Dog Is Pushing Scientists’ Buttons The Verge (Furzy Mouse). First murder hornet nest found to have 200 queens capable of spawning new nests Guardian The economy as we knew it might be over, Fed Chairman says CNN An Economist’s Guide to the World in 2050 Bloomberg #COVID19 More Safety Data Would Be […]

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Continuing the 2020 pantry clearout… More to come! –lambert Bird Song of the Day #COVID19 At reader request, I’ve added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is the site. Case count by United States region: Slight decrease in slope. Could be was […]

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Today I’m doing the Election 2020 pantry clear-out. Hopefully this is enough to get you started. There’s more, much more… –lambert UPDATE All for now… Bird Song of the Day #COVID19 At reader request, I’ve added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here […]

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, I have a pantry clear-out for the ages of election-related material, but I think I’m going to wander off for a late brunch; it’s been a rough few days. I’ll try catch up tomorrow. –lambert Bird Song of the Day #COVID19 At reader request, I’ve added this daily […]

A cri de couer about election 2020.

~ “Bright college days” ~ Election fraud affidavit emerges, sorta ~ is Pfizer Son of Gilead? ~ GSA “ascertainment” and the Biden transition ~ Malls on the upswing, or not? ~ Mason jar shortage ~ Shutting up Amazon Echo ~ SAD ~ Karl Kraus

Lambert here: The ACA a victim of its own complexity. Imagine the Supreme Court was giving Medicare for All an up-or-down vote. They’d blink, just as Roberts blinked in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, and FDR’s Court blinked with its “jurisprudential shift” to supporting New Deal legislation after FDR won in 1932 and […]

Man Creates Bird Feeder That Trains Magpies To Exchange Trash For Treats The Animal Rescue Site News (Furzy Mouse). Jens Weidmann: Too close for comfort? The relationship between monetary and fiscal policy Bank of International Settlements. Weidmann is President of the Deutsche Bundesbank and Chair of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International […]

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. 2020 was not a good year for pollsters. Guardian: “Polling industry the night’s big loser as 2016 debacle repeats itself“; Jacobin: “After the 2020 Election, Polling Is Dead“; Al Jazeera: “The landslide that wasn’t: What the elections say about America“[1]; and the Bangor Daily News: “Susan Collins defied the polls. […]

‘Australia’s biodiversity just got a lot richer’: Two new mammals discovered Sidney Morning Herald A Plan to Save Appalachia’s Wild Ginseng Wired The foul-smelling fuel that could power big ships BBC Mount Everest Empties as Covid-19 Strikes Tourism in Nepal NYT Can you trust that Amazon review? 42% may be fake, independent monitor says. Chicago […]

By Christine Berry, a freelance researcher and writer and was previously Director of Policy and Government for the New Economics Foundation. She has also worked at ShareAction and in the House of Commons. Originally published at Open Democracy. As the COVID-19 crisis grinds on, it’s increasingly clear that the UK’s broken economy – an economy […]

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. More hot takes soon! As usual, there’s far too much to process! –lambert UPDATE All done! Bird Song of the Day #COVID19 At reader request, I’ve added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is the site. Case count by United States region: […]

Yves apologizes for the lack of an original post. She had to take her mother to the Emergency Room, an environment not conducive to posting, and spent seven hours there. Fortunately, there was nothing serious and her mother was OK! (For readers in civilized countries, seven hours in the ER is par for the course […]

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. More hot takes soon! –lambert UPDATE All done! Bird Song of the Day I feel like singing now that Election Day is past…. #COVID19 At reader request, I’ve added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is the site. Case count by United […]

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Dark wings, dark Words? #COVID19 At reader request, I’ve added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is the site. Here are the United States regions: = Still going up… And here are the Swing States, for the […]

…As the clever hopes expireOf a low dishonest decade:Waves of anger and fearCirculate over the brightAnd darkened lands of the earth,Obsessing our private lives.. –W.H. Auden, September 1, 1939 Well, here we are, four years after election day’s eve in 2016. Time to kick back, as some of you may already have done, although I […]

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Readers, I will put up on Election Post/Open Thread at 7:00PM. –lambert Bird Song of the Day Seems appropriate… #COVID19 At reader request, I’ve added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is the site. Here are the United States regions: Still going […]

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, as usual I have collected far too much material over the weekend to sort properly, so expect more in a bit. However, this should be enough to get you started. –lambert UPDATE All done! Bird Song of the Day #COVID19 At reader request, I’ve added this daily chart […]

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day #COVID19 At reader request, I’ve added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is the site. Here are the United States regions: No sign of relief, sadly…. Here are the Swing States as I conceive them (see below): […]

How dogs tracked their humans across the ancient world Science And Now, a Sinkhole Full of Rats New York Magazine. Very on-brand for 2020. Too few companies disclose financial hit from climate change, regulator says Reuters Big Tech shows its resilience to pandemic and politics FT M.T.A. Slashes in Service Could Erase 450,000 Jobs NYT […]

Biden at Gettysburg[1]: The very definition of bathos? We shall see. (Biden has now given a speech in Warm Springs, GA, FDR’s personal retreat. I suppose I shall have read his homage to FDR too, and find the appropriate speech to compare it to, but not today.) Unfortunately, I don’t have the energy to pull […]

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day So that is a thrush! #COVID19 At reader request, I’ve added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is the site. Here are the United States regions: No sign of relief, sadly. (I don’t know what other strongly […]

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Staggering to hear and see them in flight, though perhaps especially gratifying to see them leave, of one manages an office park with a water feature… #COVID19 At reader request, I’ve added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. […]

By Lambert Strether of Corrente Bird Song of the Day Here is a Lesser Goldfinch, from alert reader Bryan SAMUEL. #COVID19 At reader request, I’ve added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is the site. Here are the United States regions: Still rising…. Here are the Swing […]

By Lambert Strether of Corrente As usual, I gathered far too much 2020 material over the weekend, so I’ll put some of it in, rather than leave it all on the cutting room floor. –lambert UPDATE All done! Bird Song of the Day There were a number of bird mentioned on my flowers post yesterday, […]

By Rajan Menon is the Anne and Bernard Spitzer Professor of International Relations at the Powell School, City College of New York, senior research fellow at Columbia University’s Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, and a non-resident fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. Originally published at Tom Dispatch. Donald Trump isn’t just […]