Book chats - J.K. Rowling and Saying Goodbye to Childhood
Welcome to Bookchat! Where you can talk about anything; books, plays, essays, and audio books. You don’t have to be reading a book to come in, sit down, and chat with us.I love the story of the Ship of...
View ArticleBookchats: Not even to the rain
Welcome to Bookchat! Where you can talk about anything; books, plays, essays, and audio books. You don’t have to be reading a book to come in, sit down, and chat with us.I am happy to be writing again...
View ArticleWho is Kyrsten Sinema?
Kyrsten Sinema’s political career is something of a raging hurricane, a careening cyclone that developed rapidly, and is now unraveling into chaos right before our eyes. The issue with Sinema is that...
View ArticleCan we admit now that crypto is a festering cesspool of alt-right...
Also posted on my blog: thaneauxthemadcajun.com/... A month has passed and the FTX cryptocurrency exchange collapse just keeps getting worse and worse, with founder and wunderkind Sam Bankman-Fried...
View ArticleVitamins: A Question of Supplements
This is a list of the vitamins and mineral supplements that nutritional science and medicine generally agree the general population should take (and would benefit from) daily:Surprise, there aren’t...
View ArticleThe Wellness Movement is Rotten, and American Food Culture is Too
This piece, along with many others on mountain climbing in Japan, book reviews, and politics alike is on my blog: theravingsofthaneauxthemadcajun.wordpress.com/… I have written in the past about how...
View ArticleBookchats: Into the world of One Piece, Japan's sprawling Pirate Epic
Welcome to bookchat! Where you can talk about anything; books, plays, essays, and audio books. You don’t have to be reading a book to come in, sit down, and chat with us. Despite being a lurker within...
View Article2000 Dollar Tacos and a World Teetering on Collapse
Most people who disdain the ultra-rich, I can say, don’t scorn them nearly enough. Just as equally, the enablers and flunkies, the savvy marketeers that make a lucrative living catering to exclusivity...
View ArticleA Run Down of Japan's 2021 General Elections
*Note: All Japanese names in this entry are written Family Name First, given name Second, as is done in Japanese and as the Japanese government has been moving to implement in official English...
View ArticleBookchats on Fantasy: A Look into Garth Nix's Abhorsen Series
Welcome to bookchat! Where you can talk about anything; books, plays, essays, and audio books. You don’t have to be reading a book to come in, sit down, and chat with us, this time we will take a...
View ArticleBookchat: Buying Bertrand Russell on my way to Japan
Welcome to bookchat! Where you can talk about anything; books, plays, essays, and audio books. You don’t have to be reading a book to come in, sit down, and chat with us.Bertrand Russell may not be as...
View ArticleQAnon, Conspiracy Theories, and the Crisis of the Information Age
Society has entered the age of the conspiracy, and the radicalisation and violence tied to conspiracy theorists will continue as one of the biggest sources of social instability in the Western world....
View ArticleLife Expectancy and Public Health
Life expectancy is a complex statistical measurement, and what is meant by the term, whenever it is discussed in media or in terms of contemporary public health, is Period Life Expectancy; the...
View ArticleElection Day Evening: My Final Predictions
So as we await for Election Day, I will make some of my last predictions. I project the national top lines will be around 53-44 Biden, with some hardening of each parties coalitions. Trump’s vote total...
View Article2020 Elections Uncoded: The South
I am doing a four part series on the 2020 election, to keep each piece from being too unwieldy. The first section, the South, is made up of the 11 states of the Confederacy, plus Kentucky, and...
View ArticleWhat Bernie Sanders (and the far-left) Misunderstood
I imagine that right this moment many are probably screaming in their heads at my choice of words—only a corporate hack would characterize Bernie as far-left, I imagine, is what is going through the...
View ArticleWhat Went Wrong With Warren, A Post-Mortem of a Promising Campaign
What went wrong with Warren? Aside from the wonderful, pulsing alliteration of that sentence, that is a question that I, a fan and strong supporter of Elizabeth Warren have been grappling with for...
View ArticleBoeing Broken: The Marring of THE American Company
The Atlantic recently published an article ”How McKinsey Destroyed the Middle Class”, which is worth a read as a general point of reference. There are lot of other perspectives I could go into (Fordism...
View ArticleCOVID-19: Don't Panic. Wash Your Hands and Don't Touch Your Face.
A precise estimate of the case fatality rate is therefore impossible at present. — 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV): estimating the case fatality rate – a word of caution - Battegay Manue et al.,...
View ArticleGOP Talking Heads trash Ocasio-Cortez's Comments while screwing up their own...
Last week Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called the Trump-Camps on the border, where migrant children and others seeking refugee status are held without toothpaste, soap, (and in many cases) clean...
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