The GAO reports that the US regional air traffic control centers are dangerously short of meteorologists. What could possibly go wrong?
Infrastructure
The Miami Collapse [Updated!]
The Miami collapse is beyond disturbing, but what else is there to come?
Fertile Ground: Lack of Broadband and Disinformation Proliferation
The lack of broadband infrastructure serving Americans uniformly leaves them prey to disinformation about existential matters. This country needs broadband everywhere.
Long Overdue Policies that Look Obvious in the Age of Pandemic
With the crisis of COVID, policies that long made sense but were considered too radical have become necessary.
Krewe du Boo Trash Talk
Okay, another late start to Trash. Now if you have not heard, there is some bad bongos in Nawlins. The Hard Rock Hotel (not just a restaurant, this thing was to be huge), has collapsed in what will be an insanely huge liability claim for about thirty different fronts....
Another Kind of Recovery: Post-Maria Puerto Rico and Health Care Critical Infrastructure
Hope you don’t need an IV soon. I’ll be thinking of people who do while Trump bloviates tonight about the state of our disunion.
Pay Now and Pay Later: What Losing CHIP means to America
Let me tell you something you secretly believe, secret even from yourself, because you are an American: poor and sick children aren’t going to amount to anything. This is true whether you’re a Republican or a Democrat.
Three Things: Non-Nuclear Proliferation
We’ll still have to deal with broken economy, more Legionnaires disease cases, and Disney’s recalcitrance on protecting kids if the planet isn’t blown up over a stupid tweet or two. This is an open thread.
The Jetzon’s Self Driving Auto Car Drone Aint Here Yet
History shows again and again How nature points out the folly of men. Yeah, truer words never spoken. Even if in relation to Godzilla. And you can apply that to the relentlessly ballyhooed "autonomous driving automobiles". Seriously, this stuff is Henny Youngman type...
Blumenthal, Booker Point to Unsuccessful Attack for Call for TSA in Trains
Richard Blumenthal and Cory Booker are using a thwarted attack on a train in Paris as reason to call for more TSA presence in trains. Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) are urging the TSA to "to implement security and safety improvements ......
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