Clearing the Tabs September 30, 2022

Here are some things I've read so far this month or will be reading soon. A lot of people are staying at home looking for things to read, so I've broken this month into two parts again, expect a post on October 15. And note that just because I post something here does not mean I agree with it, it simply means it made me think and I think my readers might enjoy it.

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September 16
Census Data Show Transit’s Devastation

September 19
Environmentalism Is a Fundamentalist Religion

September 22
Don’t Objectify Yourself
Thinking of yourself as an observer is better for your happiness than obsessing over being observed.

September 23
The revenge of the material economy
The future belongs to manufacturers, energy suppliers and farmers.

September 29
Technology Can Make Your Relationships Shallower
But it’s all in how you use it.

Clearing the Tabs September 15, 2022

Here are some things I've read so far this month or will be reading soon. A lot of people are staying at home looking for things to read, so I've broken this month into two parts again, expect a post on September 30. And note that just because I post something here does not mean I agree with it, it simply means it made me think and I think my readers might enjoy it.

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September 1

Electric Car Mandates: The Latest Frontier in the Elites' War on the Middle Class

From Sri Lanka to Salinas
Will California - and the Nation - Learn Anything from Sri Lanka's Green Apocalypse?

Pandemic Reversal?

September 4

Can space save Earth?

ESG and Corporate Totalitarianism

September 6

Is the Automobile Industry Being Mandated Toward a Death Spiral?

September 7
Class Homicide
Massive inequality and the rise of a new feudal system have nearly destroyed the chances of social mobility.

September 10
The fall of Los Angeles
The ‘progressive’ elites have run the city of the future into the dirt.

September 12
Washington DC’s Energy Colonialism

Clearing the Tabs August 31, 2022

Here are some things I've read so far this month or will be reading soon. A lot of people are staying at home looking for things to read, so I've broken this month into two parts again, expect a post on September 15. And note that just because I post something here does not mean I agree with it, it simply means it made me think and I think my readers might enjoy it.

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August 16

How Managerial Aesthetics Explain Why Cities Can't Authentically Market Themselves

August 17
If Global Warming Is Real, Capitalism Will Vanquish It

Collapse or Evolution?

August 19
Where Did Wokeness Come From?
Evaluating the theories

August 20
The Unexpected Future
We need to consider ways to reverse or at least slow rapid depopulation

How America is Failing Its Young Men

August 23
America has an Oedipus complex
Trust-fund radicals want to marry Mother Earth

August 24
“Inflation Reduction” Act will hinder EV growth

Rent Forever and Love It
The globalized commodification of housing will destroy democracy.

August 26
The revenge of the analog economy
Digital fantasies have collided with analog reality

August 27
Last WH polar bears ashore even later than 2009 as Hudson Bay finally becomes ice-free

Don’t be fooled by Sunak and the rest and their about face – their pretence that they were with us all along. Covid and lockdown carried them only so far – but they plan to go much further

August 30

The “Energy Transition” Delusion: A Reality Reset

President Newsom?
Conservatives should not dismiss the potential national appeal of California’s governor.

August 31

Energy transition: The land use conundrum

Clearing the Tabs August 15, 2022

Here are some things I've read so far this month or will be reading soon. A lot of people are staying at home looking for things to read, so I've broken this month into two parts again, expect a post on August 31. And note that just because I post something here does not mean I agree with it, it simply means it made me think and I think my readers might enjoy it.

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August 1

Free Trade’s Heavy Cost
How globalization became sinicization

Irvine: A National Role Model

August 4
The biggest threat to the CHIPS Act? The Green Left
Environmental policies could undermine Biden's domestic agenda

August 5
The Importance of Fare Enforcement

August 6
Why suburbia will decide the future
As millions of Americans migrate to the suburbs, a huge political shift is underway.

August 7
The What and Why of Mentoring

August 8
The Democrats' New Climate Bill Abandons Green Zealotry—For Reason

August 9
Newsom is like Biden

August 11
Tim Allen Loves It Here, and He's Always Happy To Show It

To Get Out of Your Head, Get Out of Your House
Spending time in nature can help relieve stress and anxiety.

Americans mourn the dead in Afghanistan, even as the media move on

August 15
The Great Barrier Reef Is Doing Great; People Should Know

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Clearing the Tabs July 31, 2022

Here are some things I've read so far this month or will be reading soon. A lot of people are staying at home looking for things to read, so I've broken this month into two parts again, expect a post on August 15. And note that just because I post something here does not mean I agree with it, it simply means it made me think and I think my readers might enjoy it.

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July 16
Local messages, not partisan propaganda, will win over voters

July 19
Why America needs churches

Gavin Newsom won’t save the Democrats
Reality will catch up with America's Great White Hope

July 20

The Case for Entitlement Reform

How Do We Cure Poverty Worldwide?

Google: whatever happened to ‘Don’t be evil’?
The Big Tech giants are behaving like neo-feudal overlords.

July 27
Green Dreams, Inflationary Realities
We must find ways to combat climate change without incurring devastating inflation, greater class division, the immiseration of the middle class, and the destitution of the poor.

July 29
Transit’s Existential Crisis

July 31
Why Cities Are Important to the Church’s Mission

Clearing the Tabs July 15, 2022

Here are some things I've read so far this month or will be reading soon. A lot of people are staying at home looking for things to read, so I've broken this month into two parts again, expect a post on July 31. And note that just because I post something here does not mean I agree with it, it simply means it made me think and I think my readers might enjoy it.

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July 5

July 9
The Connection: Housing Affordability and Inequality

July 8

May Transit 59.5% of Pre-Pandemic Levels

July 12
America’s dependency on imports may be stagnating its economy

July 15
Why millennials are dropping out
Rising disaffection has severe implications

Clearing the Tabs June 30, 2022

Here are some things I've read so far this month or will be reading soon. A lot of people are staying at home looking for things to read, so I've broken this month into two parts again, expect a post on July 15. And note that just because I post something here does not mean I agree with it, it simply means it made me think and I think my readers might enjoy it.

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June 16

Why Elephants Are Not People

June 17
Merchant ships and planes needed to support world’s eight billion

June 19

Compassion Is Conservative, Contempt Is Communist
Forget about “compassionate conservatives.” What this country really needs is compassionate Democrats.

June 20
Engineered California
The birthplace of environmentalism was built through meticulous application of technology.

June 21
The Bureaucratization of American Leadership

June 22

Why Many Poor Neighborhoods Fear Development
Corporate investment can be an economic boon to low-income communities. It can also be a cultural threat.

June 23

Class is back
The global cost-of-living crisis has made obscene inequalities impossible to ignore.

Deranged COVID-clingers still want Broadwaygoers to be put through Rikers-like procedures

Heartland Manufacturing Renaissance
Why Middle America is poised to lead an industrial comeback

Inflation Eats Infrastructure Bill

June 26
Learning from Las Vegas: Sustainable vs. Susceptible

June 29
Dark clouds on the horizon for electric vehicles

June 30
Don’t Surround Yourself With Admirers
Instead, befriend people who inspire awe in you.

The cost of Biden’s racialism
Minorities are paying for his progressive failures