2:00PM Water Cooler 8/14/2024 | naked capitalism
By Lambert Strether of Corrente Bird Song of the Day I looked for another species of songbird that mimics, and came up with the Thrasher.
2:00PM Water Cooler 8/13/2024 | naked capitalism
More Blue on the map. Trump still leads nationally, but some swing states moving toward Kamala. In particular, I’m no insider, but if I were
2:00PM Water Cooler 8/12/2024 | naked capitalism
Like test kits flying off the shelves, ambulance sirens are another proxy for positivity: I wonder if there’s an equivalent of ShotSpotter, but for ambulances.
Mask Bans Slowly Spread [cough, cough] in States and Localities
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. In the companion post to this piece (“Eight Reasons Mask Bans Are Beyond Stupid“) I dealt with the talking points
The Problem with Pronatalism: Pushing Baby Booms to Boost Economic Growth Amounts to a Ponzi Scheme
Yves here. We’ve posted from time to time on alarmed media stories about how birthrates are declining around the world and at a faster rate
2:00PM Water Cooler 8/9/2024 | naked capitalism
By Lambert Strether of Corrente Bird Song of the Day Readers have been so happy with the mockingbirds I’m going to keep doing them. Now
Eight Reasons Mask Bans Are Beyond Stupid
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Thanks to Federalism, what I intended to be a single post became a bit sprawling, because mask ban legislation is
2:00PM Water Cooler 8/7/2024 | naked capitalism
By Lambert Strether of Corrente Bird Song of the Day Readers have been so happy with the mockingbirds I’m going to keep doing them. Now
2:00PM Water Cooler 8/6/2024 | naked capitalism
By Lambert Strether of Corrente Bird Song of the Day Readers have been so happy with the mockingbirds I’m going to keep doing them. Now
Insects: Apocalypse Soon? | naked capitalism
By Lambert Strether of Corrente Since we seem to be in an apocalyptic mode just now, here are some headlines from last week: Fireflies are