2021-02-26 14:30
The story from The Hill is more than a week old, but it deserves more airplay. COVID started in China earlier than we have heard before, with multiple variants already around at th… Read More
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2021-02-25 16:17
If a special session for redistricting can't be done until fall, will that make Rethuglicans in the Lege, especially Danny Goeb on the Senate side, less, or more confrontational with De… Read More
2021-02-25 14:30
There was enough non-COVID, non-freezeout news to break the weekly Roundup into three parts this week. That starts with you know who in the header.• Peggy Noonan has an insigh… Read More
2021-02-24 19:30
The Trib told us yesterday that five ERCOT board members quit, including Chairwoman Sally Talberg, and an applicator for a sixth board spot withdrew their application.It also included this i… Read More
2021-02-24 14:03
Above: Lake Texoma, frozen at Hagerman NWR.This is an extra-long read, and so, in addition to splitting COVID-related news off again this week, as I have for the better part of a year, news… Read More
2021-02-23 21:35
The LA Times has been running a video series about coronavirus issues, hosted by its owner, Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong. That's "interesting" enough. Beyond interesting is an episode with a Sout… Read More
2021-02-22 14:30
We've seen not just political damage control, but plain political damage, in the wake of the Great Texas Freezeout.Contra The Hill and elsewhere, Cancun Ted will survive here in Tex-ass, but… Read More
2021-02-20 19:13
I think it's been three full years now since I cancelled my digital-only subscription to a magazine I once loved but with which I now have a love-frustration relationship. (That applies, IMO… Read More
2021-02-19 15:00
In comments at another blog post, Tiago asked me, per my graphic, what exactly I meant by a non-Marxist post-capitalism rather than anti-capitalism. I can now offer a specific example… Read More
2021-02-18 15:32
Speaking of said cold, last week, Gov. Strangeabbott, ERCOT, et al, warned about possible rolling blackouts. I "Loooovvveeeee" how ERCOT, Rethuglican state leaders, and some Democraps as wel… Read More
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