Rock-and-roll lost another one in this terrible year. Via the Beeb: Greg Lake, who fronted both King Crimson and Emerson, Lake and Palmer, has died aged 69. One of the founding fathers of progressive rock, the British musician is known for songs including In the Court of the Crimson King and his solo hit I …
Excellent Read: “On the Subject of Listening to the People of the Land”
I whole-heartedly endorse foundational progressive blogger Driftglass‘s response to the self-styled ‘Jacobins’ and their BothSides media enablers noisily calling for a return to the mythical utopia of the WWC Democrat: In a former life, my span of responsibility was so weirdly far-flung that when people asked me what I did for a living, I would …
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So How’s That Trump Vote Working Out for You, Coal Miners?
No one could have predicted: The Miners Protection Act to address health and pension benefits for coal miners and their families will not be included in a continuing resolution bill, according to a Tuesday announcement. Congress said the bill, which would continue to fund the federal government, only has four months of funding for those …
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Are You NorCal Folks Okay?
Just got a news alert saying there was a 6.8 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Northern California. Y’all okay? Open thread.
Scenes from an Italian restaurant
There was a very interesting note in the excellent Washington Post piece about the Comet Ping Pong gunman: An oddly disproportionate share of the tweets about Pizzagate appear to have come from, of all places, the Czech Republic, Cyprus and Vietnam, said Jonathan Albright, an assistant professor of media analytics at Elon University in North …
Thursday Morning Open Thread: Fight On
"To all the little girls watching…never doubt that you are valuable and powerful & deserving of every chance & opportunity in the world." — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) November 9, 2016 Most shared US tweet of 2016, per Buzzfeed. If she can do it, so can we. Besides, what other option is there? What’s on the …
Death spirals all around
We’re going to see how the Republican Party can create a death spiral in the individual market in sixty days or less. They have a few choices: First Philip Klein in the Washington Examiner wants to create one the old fashion way: In contrast, Republicans could immediately freeze enrollment — allowing those who already have …