Actuarial reality may soon overtake political fantasy.

Insurers can’t price risk if a major party keeps denying it. Rising payouts from pandemics and climate disasters should force the industry & its donors to push Republicans toward realism: maybe after the 2026 midterms, if those are a Blue Wave.

That gap wasn’t inevitable.

In states with Democratic governments, even GOP counties fared better because statewide rules (masking, vaccines, school policies) set a floor of protection. Here in Johnson County, IA, leaders fought the governor for stricter local rules and had far fewer excess deaths.

It's why I frequently cite sources: I want people to check.

1) Epstein wasn’t that old. My father, born 25 years before him, cautioned about email from … the beginning of email.

2) Some of these were written well after “but her emails” lost Clinton the race against Trump.

Zero excuses for him. Just an expectation of privilege.

Since my PhD is in Zoology, I'd love to do research on actual Kaiju, so I'd pick the alternate reality of KPS.

Ah, when I lived in Stamford I did wonder!

Buy Now Pay Later may be modern in tech but not in economics: extending more credit to already stressed households usually ends in tears. I wince every time I see those Klarna ads at the mall.

Actually, I reread the testimony: she said Trump might have penetrated her all the way or it might have been halfway, she wasn't sure.

Which is actually strong evidence that she was genuinely trying to tell the truth: she could have omitted that uncertainty.