Let's Not Pretend the Wisconsin Result was Important (Or Why there is no Surge)
Writing from Japan, I feel as serene as Mt. Fuji in the backdrop there (a classic ukiyoe by Hokusai). I remain as assured as I was 2 weeks ago about the Democratic primary. And it has little to do with...
View ArticleGermany, Free Speech and the Story Behind the Erdogan Lawsuit
I have a German friend I've known for a long time, who heard about the John Oliver segment on the Erdogan lawsuit, in conjunction with the reaction from some people in Germany, and infuriated, asked me...
View ArticleMy Fellow Clinton Supporters; can we please shut up for five minutes about...
I will keep this very short. i am sure that many people will appreciate brevity at a time like this. I am an aggressive Clinton supporter ( former Obama supporter in 2008), and i think the volume and...
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Why and How Clinton will Defeat Donald Trump on Election Day
Part 1: Modeling Assumptions and the National VoteIt seems like this cycle, the new vogue is up to date, breathless models giving you real time odds of political results. Each day, a new poll or two...
View ArticleWhat the Hell is Clarence Thomas Babbling About
I was just reading an article about a case the Supreme Court thankfully declined to take up and was treated to the sight of Justice Thomas’s decent. Supreme Court Turns Down Case on Carrying Guns in...
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...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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...
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