New blog post: Falling Off a Cliff with a Blindfold - Job Loss Blackout During Trump's Government Shutdown rwrld.blogspot.com/2025/10/fall...

“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” - Jane Goodall

Did you know that Donald Trump is the only president in history to have never won a general election against another man? Donald. The last resort of American misogynists.

Judge Young: "This case ... squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally 'yes, they do.' 'No law' means 'no law.'"

President Trump claimed the Amish don’t get autism - which I find strange because the spelling of the two words is so similar.

I feel like anyone who is less concerned than Ty Cobb should just drape themselves in swastikas right now

“.. For example, it is unusual for the prices of toys to rise on a year-over-year basis. Prior to the Covid-era inflation bulge, the last time CPI toy prices were rising on a year-on-year basis was in August 1997. .. CPI furniture price gains have also shot up.”

New blog post: Charlie Kirk Shooting a Reminder of How Warped is the NRA's Interpretation of the 2nd Amendment rwrld.blogspot.com/2025/09/char...

New post: Mike the Chimp and Trump's Rise to Power in the Information Economy rwrld.blogspot.com/2025/09/trum...

New blog post: Trump's Tariffs Terrible for Job Creation rwrld.blogspot.com/2025/09/trum... Closing line: Last year the economy was creating more jobs per day than it has created each week since Trump's big tariff announcement.

New post: Labor Day, Women and Frances Perkins rwrld.blogspot.com/2025/09/labo...

“People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.” - Aldous Huxley

You don’t hear more about “rural white rage” because it’s nearly impossible to say without slurring your words - you either sound drunk or like you’re mid-stroke. "What's wrong with you?" "I'm seized by rurrow why tage." "What?" "Ruror why age!" "What are you saying? And why are you so angry?"

new blog post: Millennials have faced more career stress than any generation alive rwrld.blogspot.com/2025/08/mill...

While Trump makes broad claims to try to curtail voting, in fact voter fraud in the US is extremely rare. In six swing states in 2020, there were about 475 potential cases of fraud out of 25.5 million votes cast, according to an @apnews.com study @nytnickc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/b...

New blog post: Average Wages in Silicon Valley Are Not Just 2 to 3X the National Average - They Understate Actual Compensation rwrld.blogspot.com/2025/08/aver...

The president makes about as much in a day as the average American makes in a week. By contrast, one of the 350 top paid CEOs in the country makes about as much in a day as their average worker makes in a year.

“This blustering revel of tariffs and travel bans makes us mocked by other nations; they call us boors and bullies, and the good we once stood for is eclipsed by our vices.” - Hamlet (only slightly modified), Act 1 Scene 4

"Control of consciousness determines the quality of life." - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

"If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down." - Toni Morrison

New blog post: Reagan, Fox, MSNBC, and Simplifying the Mess of Reality rwrld.blogspot.com/2025/08/reag...

New blog post: "David Bromwich of Yale argues that totalitarianism is partly about denying the inherent contradictions in the world" rwrld.blogspot.com/2025/08/davi...

New blog post: Hannah Arendt on Loneliness and the Temptation of Totalitarianism rwrld.blogspot.com/2025/08/hann...

In the last 3 months, avg job creation has been 35k. That's one-tenth of avg for the whole of Biden's presidency. Related, the unemployment rate is edging upwards. But this is just data. What is truly important is that a Facebook post claimed that "they're eating the dogs, they're eating the cats!"

Feeling listless implies that one might also feel listed. Good: “I’ve got a great list of things to do - I feel so listed!” Bad: “I don’t have a list. I can’t even make one. I’m completely listless.”

Inflation - Completely Unchanged Everywhere but in Trump's Mind In November, inflation was 2.7% The most recent report? It is 2.7% rwrld.blogspot.com/2025/07/infl...

New blog post: rwrld.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-...

New blog post: "Being healthy is a patriotic duty," RFK announced, as if he were offering actual policy and not just a placebo. rwrld.blogspot.com/2025/07/rfk-...

New blog post about how we so richly reward private sector entrepreneurship and value so little - if at all - public sector entrepreneurship rwrld.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-hu...

Is there any metric by which the country did not improve during the Clinton administration? Look at this dramatic drop in violent crime during the 1990s.

Was there any metric by which the US didn't improve during the Clinton administration?

New 100 word blog post about NVDA and the evolution of the American economy rwrld.blogspot.com/2025/07/nvid...

Our president rose to fame as a reality TV star. Reality TV is just television so unimaginative and devoid of character development that they can’t call it fiction. And yet it still isn’t real.

“Because power corrupts, society’s demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.” - John Adams

The US has 735 billionaires and 535 federal legislators – 200 more billionaires than lawmakers. * Legislators earn roughly 2x median household income. * Billionaires hold about 50,000x median household net worth. To check the power of elected representatives, we're giving billionaires more power.

Be you. The world will adjust. - Anonymous

Pippi Longstocking ... early feminist and nonconformist.

New term: Deja nu. The distinct feeling that this has never happened before.

Just finished @kkdumez.bsky.social Jesus and John Wayne. It's fascinating and important and covers topics that influence politics more than you think. One almost parenthetically profound point is how popular media rather than traditional churches so defines Christianity.

The 4th of July as a Celebration of the Idea of Bold Experiments in the Pursuit of Happiness! (Americans who rebelled against a king to - among other things - have free trade) rwrld.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-...

ADP estimated that 33,000 jobs had been lost in June - the first month in which the economy lost jobs rather than gained them since .... December of 2020, the penultimate month of Trump's first term. Friday's official BLS numbers WILL differ but ... adpemploymentreport.com

Trump's Isolationist, Anti-Innovative Economic Policies Mean That His Budget Cuts Still Won't be Enough rwrld.blogspot.com/2025/07/trum...

A dating app that lets you swipe up to see their shoes. I'll call it "SoleMate."

New blog post: The Terrible Cost of Trump's Mastery Over Our Attention rwrld.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-...

“family members identified the victim as Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all U.S. Marines” ktla.com/news/local-n...

Know why there are so many political analysis talk shows and podcasts but no limerick shows? Its obvious when you've run out of limericks.

Here's a thought: if you haven't read anything longer than a meme since the second Bush presidency, maybe voting is not for you. rwrld.blogspot.com/2025/06/trum...

Heard this only about five million times in military interviews. With generals, with platoon leaders, with people on 'winning' and 'losing' sides: "You've got to remember: It's so much easier to get into a war, than to get out of one." Eg: Why Eisenhower didn't back the French at Dien Bien Phu.

New blog post: rwrld.blogspot.com/2025/06/pure...

$46 million in net worth is the minimum required to get into the top 0.1% of Americans households. Households in the top 0.1% now hold nearly 14% of the nation's wealth, a new record (graph below). So that's kind of interesting. fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WFRBS... ​