Metaspective

  • Affordable Care Act vs Republicans

    Chinese Dragons (Lóng, 龙) are cosmic guardians that protect the vulnerable. There’s no better analogy for the Affordable Care Act (ACA). After decades of fighting between capitalists and socialists resulting in no solutions, a hybrid plan was finally devised, as if out of the cosmos and it was signed into law to help millions of…

  • Propagate the Books!

    Since the current administration is hellbent on rewriting history, censoring education and destroying public access to information, it might be a good time to think about the information we still have available to us that hasn’t been commoditized or banned yet and how we might preserve it while we still can. One defense against the…

  • The “Unconstitutionality Index”

    How’s this for irony?  An unelected bureaucrat sets up a new agency to set rules on who gets the funding that Congress already approved by law, then justifies these rules by delivering a report in which he equates agency rules created by unelected bureaucrats and applied to laws passed by Congress as being unconstitutional. This…

  • The Courage of Liberalism

    The Courage of Liberalism So the latest right-wing craze in the UK is the fuss over “grooming gangs” The Telegraph describes them as “mainly Asian, Muslim men” who are “systematically raping white, working class girls”. What makes this so typical of right-wing rage, aside from the racist tone and how the magnitude of the problem…

  • Supply-Side Economics

    Many Americans have forgotten how to get what they want in large part due to supply-side economics that have too often left American consumers choosing between cheap, trashy and sometimes toxic products. Supply-side economics is promoted through tax cuts and political favors for corporations that are considered suppliers of goods and services to the market.…

  • 103 Americans

    I recently extracted another post from the wreckage of Metespective 2.0. This one seems appropriate for reopening the blog as it examines the views of 103 Trump voters interviewed by USA Today following the 2016 election. The original post included links to my methodology and my code but my technical site is still a wreck.…

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