So many of the lines that people spout about the current uprising in the US are bullshit. The point has been well made that the very same people who recommend peaceful protest instead condemned Kapernick et al. oddly it was JFK who said- "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." Or … Continue reading Violence & uprisings- links

Everyone has at least one hobby horse, I have a stable's full. One of mine is the relationship between copper and psychiatric disorders. I first became interested in this connection when someone gave me a copper supplement to take and over a few days I became very anxious. The relationship is understudied, but what research … Continue reading Blood copper and psychiatric disorders- some correlational studies

I'm going to be talking about something that's at once as dry as dust, and also one of the key instrumentalities through which money rules the world. I have never before seen any political radical or Marxist write about it, which is odd because it is perhaps the purest example of the Marxist theory of … Continue reading Cost-Benefit Analysis undermines democracy: Or, this one weird trick helps instantiate the rule of capital