Some interesting posts about the spanizh influenza epidemic of 1918-1919, which killed more people than WWI, but is much less talked about...in fact, it is often so with epidemics - historic writing about them is not proportionate to their importance, maybe because they are frustrating for humans' sense of self-importance?? (and again it all started with Matt...)
Robert Reich writes some very interesting stuff these days - and I also recommend his book "Supercapitalism" - one of the few intelligent accounts I've read of what happened over the last 30-40 years, i.e. how we gained power as consumers/investors, and lost a lot as workers/citizens!
A good discussion by James Fallows of the paradoxical financial relationship between the US and China - a lot left untested inside (e.g. why China could not grow just as well with more internal consumption and less exports), but still well worth the read
A fun discussion of this horrid word compound: judeo-christianism (as one of my best - jewish - friends always says: how can two religions be more contradictory than these two...but read it, rather good)
Relaxation bonus - pseudo anti-meat-eating advertisement - absurd (a bit at least) but fun...
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