Wetmachine friend Matthew Saroff has had a string of great (if depressing) blog posts recently. This one on the truly horrifying statistics on (non) job creation over the last decade & how they relate to monopolization and the nature of the corporation is particularly compelling.
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Load More...Attention scientists, especially biochemists, biologists, neurologists, chemists — & super-especially women: I would appreciate any stories about your scientific formation from when you were age 10 to 14. This is research for a novel I'm working on. 1/2
Want to hear about the 'whole kit kaboodle & the kitchen sink' soup I made tonight? My own make it up as you go along recipe. I gotta tell ya, it came out pretty damn good. If I get 10 or more positive votes, I'll write it up below.
In case you're wondering, this is high geek chess arcana. (I can name the four faces on the fingers, some of the top chess players in the world today. Don't know the thumb or the big purple head.)
He is Inevitable
So:
Trying to disenfranchise 20 million legitimate and legal US voters = "taking a stand"
Criticizing him and not wanting to be associated with that undemocratic action = "trying to silence me" https://twitter.com/ericbradner/status/1365400118267109377Josh Hawley gets huge cheers at CPAC when he says he objected to the certification of electoral college votes.
"I thought it was an important stand to take, and for that the left has come after me. They tried to silence me. They canceled a book," he says.
If I wrote better, they would not be quite so depressing. 😉
Au contraire, Matthew. You write well, thereby making quite clear just how messed up everything is.