Clearing the Tabs June 15, 2025

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 June 30. Also, 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 3
Disruptive Desalination Technology Comes to California

June 5
Musk’s outbursts reveal a deeper rift in MAGA
Trump is squandering the chance to build a coherent populist programme.

June 6
Book Review: Phil Gramm & Donald Boudreaux's 'The Triumph of Economic Freedom'

June 11
Los Angeles has fallen
How can riot-rocked LA be trusted to host the Olympics?

What’s the matter with Los Angeles?
How ‘the better city’ has gone from bad to worse

Clearing the Tabs January 31, 2025

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 February 15. Also, 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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January 16
The Great Dumbing Down of American Education
Our road to mediocrity needs to be reversed—and fast.

Europe faces green energy immiseration. Trump is about to offer it a lifeline
Green ideology is deindustrialising the UK and the Continent. America is embracing a more abundant future

January 21
Minorities Voted For Trump, Trump Owes Them Prosperous Policy

January 22
How governable is Los Angeles?

Economies Are People, And The Capacity For People To Grow Is Limitless

January 24
These Mayors Understand How to Run a City
Armed with common sense policies, three urban leaders are fighting a patient battle against chaos.

January 26

LA fires extinguish Gavin Newsom’s presidential dream

January 30

Trump’s assault on DEI will bring us closer to a post-racial America

The biggest winners from an end to racial identity politics will be ethnic minorities themselves

Clearing the Tabs January 15, 2025

Happy New Year! Welcome to 2025!

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 January 31. Also, 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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January 3
Why Europe and America need each other
European elites have let their snobbery towards Trump blind them to their own interests.

January 6
DOGE a chance to finally pull the plug on high-speed rail

January 10
LA’s dreams went up in flames
Politicians are to blame for a shocking lack of preparation

Smart Growth Burns Thousands of Homes

January 14
The LA fires are the horrifying consequence of Democratic misrule
Blue states’ embrace of progressive fads over good governance was bound to end in disaster.

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 June 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 June 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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June 5
America’s great cities are gripped by decline and disorder
Voters have had enough of ‘progressive’ leaders who are presiding over spiralling violence and crime.

June 6
The Battle for L.A.

Can Rick Caruso convince enough voters that their troubled city can recapture its role as an incubator of the American dream?

June 7
Is it ethical to purchase a lithium battery powered EV?

June 8
April Transit Falls to 58.7% of Pre-Pandemic Levels

Conservatives' Missing Link on Gender Roles

June 9

Reconsidering the City
If they are to survive and thrive, cities need to become more people-friendly.

June 12
In an Outrage Culture, Choose Respect

Democracy Needs to Replace City Manager Ward System

June 15

Vaccine injuries and deaths are causing inflation through supply shocks and reduced labor participation: Dowd
Three million more disabled in US since jab started; Fed should be loosening monetary policy, not tightening, says Blackrock ex-manager

Forget College. Skilled Trades Are the Future of the U.S. Economy

Clearing the Tabs May 15, 2020

Some things I've read so far this month or will be reading soon. It appears the month will be a long one, and a lot of people are staying at home looking for things to read, so I've broken this month into two parts, expect a post on May 31 as well.

May 1
Subways Seeded the NYC Epidemic: MIT Economist

The Pandemic Road to Serfdom
Our Covid-era oligarchs are fitting us for feudalism.

May 3
Letter from Los Angeles: The death of small business is a tragedy for Jewish community and democracy

May 4

Falling Prices Aren't 'Deflation.' They Instead Signal Booming Growth

Coronavirus and the Future of Public Policy

Congress, don't extend disincentives to work

May 6
Rethinking the Social Safety Net

May 7
Cuomo to Covid Volunteers: Pay Up
The governor imposes New York income taxes on the health-care workers from other states who answered his call to come fight coronavirus.

One Nation, Under Lockdown, Divided By Pandemic

May 8
Deindustrialization as a Template for COVID-19

May 9
Don’t bet on vitamin D to fight coronavirus, researchers warn

Coronavirus Is Worsening America’s Grim Fiscal Outlook
May 10
The flattened economy must be revived now

Hygienic fascism: Turning the world into a 'safe space' — but at what cost?

May 11
The Glory—and Risk—of Cities
From the beginning, urban density has yielded opportunity while also posing the danger of contagion.

May 12
Are California leaders 'losing the locker room' with coronavirus response?

May 13
Time to explode the Andrew Cuomo myth

May 14
Towards a Better Urbanism

The Dangerous Consequences of Renewables in the Age of COVID-19

May 15
Keeping schools closed in the fall is not a viable option

Doug McIntyre Signs Off for the Last Time

A man I consider to be legendary in the radio business signed off for the final time this morning after 22 years on KABC radio in Los Angeles.

In 2009, I was in Los Angeles for an extended weekend trip, which included some Dodgers baseball games. I arrived at LAX in the morning hours and after I got my rental car, I tuned the car radio to 790 and headed for Uncle Bill's Pancake House in Manhattan Beach, a staple for me when in Los Angeles. I tuned the car radio to 790 KABC because it was then the Dodgers radio home and there were chances to hear the legendary Vin Scully throughout the day, along with other Dodgers highlights, such as they were in 2009.

I had never heard of Doug McIntyre to that point, but as he talked and told stories, I could tell I was glad to have found him. In the days before the listening convenience provided by iHeartRadio, Tune In, and the plethora of other listening apps, listening to a Los Angeles radio station from Texas was not as easy as it is now, so I did not listen often, but I would tune in as I could.

McIntyre is and has been an amazing story teller, practically every day I have ever listened to him, I would hear him tell amazing stories and sometimes they would include historical references if that was helpful for his story. His is a first class mind for that sort of thing, and especially for talk radio.

I am glad that by a fluke I tuned back in to him just in time to hear his final two days of broadcasting this week with an interesting array of guests and topics. McIntyre was very appreciative to his listeners and that was very evident these last two days.

For me, as a talk radio listener since before I was a teenager when I got my first Emerson AM/FM/cassette tape clock radio, Doug McIntyre now moves on from radio and to whatever is next, and he joins in my memory names like Ricci Ware, Brad Messer, Carl Wigglesworth, Papa Joe Chevalier, Eliza Sonneland, Bruce Williams, and Mike Richards, who used to sign off every show with "And don't let anybody, steal your joy!" in his Texas twang.

Doug McIntyre signed off on his final show this morning referencing what he would be doing next, and he suggested that sleep would be on his list, since his show has run daily from 5am to 10am each morning. Playing off of the idea that he would get to sleep in and not have to wake up in the pre-dawn hours of the day any longer, he closed by saying, "From now on, I will be living on the sunny side of the street." And he closed out the show with a portion of Louis Armstrong performing On the Sunny Side of the Street.

And that was it. What a way to leave on ones own terms.

Thank you Doug McIntyre for your contribution to the medium.