Tariffs are taxes on consumers that pay for the tax cuts that corporations and the ultra-rich enjoy.
In the category of unintended negative effects from Dumbald’s presidency, there’s this.
Author: DOuG pRATt
Glass Goes to Wood
Glass has selected the Boston Symphony Orchestra to premiere his new work, this summer at Tanglewood.
Sometimes I Hate Being Right
Something I said in December, 2023.
Taking the Epic-cure
The use of Artificial Intelligence in healthcare and hospitals is the topic in this installment of Freakonomics Radio. With AI being software, the significance of market leader Epic Systems is necessarily discussed.
Glassical Music
Violin Concerto No. 1, by Philip Glass. From 1987, five years after Koyaanisqatsi.
Bombing Iran
Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld saw regime change in Iraq as unfinished business from George Bush Sr.’s administration. They got Bush Jr. to go along with their plan to depose Saddam Hussein.
In 1980, while American embassy staff in Iran were being held as hostages, Trump was hanging around with his coke-snorting pal Roy Cohn. Donald sees Iran as unfinished business. That’s all there is to it, and nothing more.
Sky News isn’t quite right about 1980’s ‘Bomb Iran’. It was actually a parody of the Beach Boys cover of ‘Barbara Ann’.
Here’s the Doo-Wop original, by the Regents.