Tuesday, August 18, 2026

Orchards are getting crushed by climate change

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Early blooming, then hard freezes, is the biggest problem. Late-spring freezes predate orchards, but research shows that a warming planet i...
Thursday, August 13, 2026

US should be out of Iraq soon

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If this does happen it will be one of a grand total of two things the Trump administration is doing with which I agree. Phasing out pennies ...
Tuesday, August 11, 2026

Showing a little spine on crypto

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About time. And I know of no guarantees that the ridiculously titled CLARITY Act won’t become “law” in any case. Last week, in the backgrou...
Friday, August 7, 2026

The Cuba blockade has always been a vicious, disgraceful disaster

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We have got to get the warmongers out of government, once and for all. The Cuban revolution against the U.S.-backed Batista dictatorship ha...
Tuesday, August 4, 2026

How cyclospora got going

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And how outbreaks of food contamination will keep going, until corporations are forced to change their ways. To maximize returns, these com...
Saturday, July 25, 2026

More Trump anti-immigrant viciousness

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This is also another way of trying to demonize immigrants in the public mind. The Trump administration finalized a new “public charge” rule...
Tuesday, July 21, 2026

Trump and explosive diarrhea

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How very fitting. A big problem for trust in government is that high-quality governance is usually invisible. When the various agencies des...