On the Our Opinions Are Correct podcast: Science Fiction Explains Our Messed Up Economy. Economist Noah Smith discusses how different theories of economics show up in science fiction, and how economics is itself an exercise in speculative worldbuilding. Also, the economic theory of “rational actors” pervades classic midcentury space opera, and everybody’s obsessed with game theory. And discussion of the most influential science fiction writer of the past century: Ayn Rand.
Interview with Carol Downer and Francie Hornstein, who helped women get safer abortions in the 1960s before the procedure became legal in the US.
The abortion underground: Downer and Hornstein helped women provide a safer alternative to brutal back-alley butchers to end unwanted pregnancies. Downer herself suffered a traumatic back-alley abortion in 1963, which inspired her to help other women.
Father tricks his toddler daughters into stopping crying by telling them to take turns. I thought it was cute but the comments are harsh on Dad.
I’m finally remembering to bring grocery bags when shopping. Thus is the number of F-bombs dropped in the supermarket parking lot reduced.
Tennessee’s Republican governor signed a proclamation into law honoring Nathan Bedford Forrest, a confederate general and founder of the Ku Klux Klan. Fun fact about Forrest: In addition to being a traitor and a terrorist, Forrest also massacred hundreds of American soldiers after they had already surrendered to him.
Trump says progressive congresswomen should ‘go back’ and fix the places they ‘originally came from.' The latest racist garbage from our garbage president.
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📺 We got 10 minutes into the second episode of “Stranger Things” and we’re done with it. Teenage mall culture of the 80s holds no interest; I was too old for that back then. Also, everyone seems to have become nincompoops and mediocre sitcom characters, particularly Sheriff Hopper.
The new season of Bosch was outstanding, though. The TV gods taketh away and giveth.