“Super food” is a pop nutrition term, generally applied to the vegetable du jour (e.g., asparagus, avocado), or to some exotic tropical fruit of which you’ve never heard. The idea: there are some foods which are super-duper, a cut above, far more nutritious than most of what goes on your…
I’ve been watching a Turkish TV show picked up by Netflix, titled (in English) Resurrection: Ertugrul. It is set in the year 1225, in the Near East. The protagonist (putatively) is the father of the first recorded Ottoman sultan, and thus the founder of that dynasty, depicted (in the first two…
Ensconced here in my coastal elitist, affluent liberal bubble, upon occasion I try to expose myself to alternative points of view. It seems important to escape the silo. To that end, sometimes I browse the Washington Examiner on health care (!). Sometimes even (vapors!), I browse to Fox News—although I…
Democrats have spent a long time as the party advocating tax increases, a position that used to be derided as “root canal Republican.” It’s not much of an election platform (ask Walter Mondale). The instinctive Democratic reaction to Trump’s ridiculous tax plan is to decry it as a “giveaway to…
—without exacerbating income inequality. [see this post for context] Low capital gains tax rates might be a good thing for promoting investment and economic growth. But as currently structured, the break on capital gains enormously benefits millionaires and billionaires, without bringing much benefit to the middle class. The goal should be…