Category Archives: Social Commentary
The Wreckage Continues
One in five IT jobs have disappeared, and the sudden loss of office jobs is devastating the middle class.
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Newspapers and Manhattan are screwed.
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AOC tells people to refuse to return to work.
Really? Is she going to pay their bills?
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Yes, the Democrats totally want a depression.
Declaration Of Independence
Four southern California counties are ignoring Sacramento, and starting to open up.
We drove up the coast from Newport Beach to Long Beach yesterday. In Huntington Beach, while there were signs saying no parking in the lots or along the Coast Highway, we saw people riding on the bike paths, and walking on the beach, many without masks, and seemingly unhindered.
The Economic Wreckage
Bob Zimmerman catalogs it.
Some things will recover quickly, but we won’t have a robust recovery until people have sufficient confidence that they can go back to sporting events or movie theaters or restaurants at normal capacity, which will probably require a vaccine (even if it’s a placebo). And now, despite all the money being pumped into the economy, the Fed has to worry seriously about deflation.
LA Traffic
We’re driving down to Tustin today for a meeting, so I checked out Sigalert. The entire area is green, averaging 65 or 70. They don’t even bother to do traffic on the morning news.
Goodbye, Meritocracy
..Hello…what?
We certainly aren’t well served by the current college-admissions process, but there is also too much pressure to get a subpar (at best) education for the actual purpose of getting a credential.
Restoration
This is a nice story amidst the other news: Returning one of the last B-17s to flight.
Want More Trump?
Because bashing the lock-down protesters is a great way to get more Trump.
Another Obama Presidency?
LA County
Over a 50% unemployment rate?
What a disaster.
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Well, this news about Hokkaido’s second wave isn’t great.
[Update Saturday morning]
California’s “Reopening Task Force” is the usual leftist hacks, who don’t want a pandemic to go to waste. It would be a joke if not for how disastrous this will be.