Posts by Shaun Lott
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the basic goodness of people
This is the thing we have to hold onto.
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A danger of the present political barbarism may yet be that it prevents Americans from learning from their own history.
One of many. Their budget proposal is truly astonishing - they seem to really want to pull the plug on Government support for the generation and propagation of knowledge across a remarkably broad swath of human endeavour. The vandals are sacking Rome.
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Some interesting reports from the recent AAAS meeting here:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/02/what-do-we-know-about-the-effects-of-medical-marijuana/ -
it makes the nerve pain associated with MS manageable and allows her to get by with a low or no dose of the more-readily-prescribed opioids
From a pharmacological point of view, I would have thought that some partial cannabinoid receptor agonists would be favourable to opioids right off the bat.
(But then I've long been frustrated by the lack of objective science in the legal decision making around cannabis.)
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Hard News: Burning down the house to…, in reply to Rich Lock,
Very interesting, thanks.
...Mexican citizens legally cross the border to work in the US every day
I'm guessing they are busy taking jobs that by rights should be filled by Americans, right?
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Interesting post, thanks. I've been giving some thought recently to Trump's promised Mexican wall, and I have come to the conclusion that it has nothing to do with border security and everything to do with trade. If you have a friendly border, it is in the interests of both sides to control it and maintain its integrity. If you think the other side of the border is your enemy, you fortify it. The narrative around 'bad hombres' seems to be more about setting up Mexico as the outsider and enemy in the forthcoming trade war. Or am I missing something?
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Post-truth explains both Trump and Brexit and has my vote. Formally known as shameless bullshit...
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I used to notice little ones in Palmerston North all the time, but hadn't felt one in Auckland, since we moved here in 1999. Last night the lights were swaying and the whole house was creaking and shifting. My reaction was 'if that is far away, it's bad; if it's close, it's a new volcano coming up in the harbour, just like that exhibition at the museum.' The 'we dodged the first bullet but got hit by the second one' sequence of events from 2010 comes to mind as we wait out the aftershocks. :/
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I felt that her decision to champion the case of the Charanpreet Dhaliwal (the security guard killed on his first night on the job), despite his not being a union member, was a sign of both her compassion and her vision for what the Union movement needs to be in the era of 'zero hours' contracts. That compassion and vision will both be sorely missed.
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Hard News: There in half the time:…, in reply to Russell Brown,
My personal fantasy in that kind of scenario is to attract attention with a geologist's hammer... It's probably a good thing I don't own one.