Jerry Stratton's Blog, page 59

The Epaminondas Campaign

The Democrats live like the plantation classes of Sparta and the pre-civil-war South. This is their strength until it is challenged, when it becomes their weakness.

Why does the EpiPen cost so much?

With Mylan raising the cost of the EpiPen even as the EpiPen enters the public domain, people are complaining—but they’re complaining in ways that will raise health costs even more.

Florence Foster Jenkins is Hillary Clinton

There are too many coincidences to avoid the conclusion that Florence Foster Jenkins, the movie, is a satirical attack on the relationship between Hillary Rodham Clinton and her sexless partnership with the press.

An outdated code of conduct

This social code once stood at the entrance to the Washington Post.

Trump and the media, the sequel

Donald Trump is deliberately playing the media to overcome their desire to deny airtime to Republicans. Will it work?

San Diego: 5th Avenue Books and Bluestocking Books

Facing each other across Fifth Avenue in Hillcrest, these two great bookstores complement each other well.

Natural monopolies: a 20-minute call for $8.83

“A 20-minute call anywhere in the country will cost me only $3.33? What’s the catch?” The catch is that those are still outrageous monopolistic prices.

Democratic National Committee membership scam

The Democrats are phishing for people who don’t remember they’re not members.

Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave

Not only does slavery make life worse for slaves, it doesn’t make life better for slave-owners. And the ultimate freedom is freedom to learn.

Are insecurity questions designed to help hackers?

Insecurity questions are being modified to make them easier to hack and harder to remember. It’s as if they’re designed to help hackers and frustrate forgetful account owners.