Nearly 10,000 people have died from gun violence so far in 2022 in the US, and we aren't even finished with March ( Read more... )

"This inflationary burst has no single cause and no obvious solution."

Sigh.

The supply of money in the US is up $6 trillion compared to two years ago, from $15 trillion to $21 trillion. That's a 40% increase in two years, the largest increase in decades. I understand this huge increase in the money supply was meant to mitigate the effects of the pandemic on the economy, but now that GDP and industrial production have ( Read more... )

:-)

Out in the land of fractal activism by fractal minorities (using the fuel of the Internet), there's a concept floating around called "emotional labor". My current understanding of it is limited, it seems to have many comprehensive definitions requiring the reading of many long blog posts ( Read more... )

There's been an unusual number of accusations of sexual misconduct in the media lately. People I'll never meet say they were sexually assaulted by people I'll never meet. Some of the accused have been fired or have resigned from their powerful positions. Others have not (yet ( Read more... )

Another superhero movie with Tod (and Brian). It was well done, as far as these $150 million mega movies go, and I know that it has been treated as a feminist breakthrough because the title star was female and the director was female ( Read more... )

Even Tod posted something that isn't true yesterday ( Read more... )

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