Why Americans Can’t Accept the Good Economic News. They’re better off but not feeling it—which could be a really big political problem.

Again with this clown shit. This fucking idiot does not understand that when real income is falling, Americans aren’t going to feel like they are doing better — because they are not.

Or, see here: Inflation was so bad last year that real household income tumbled the most in 12 years, causing families severe economic pain. (Surowiecki also uses a very-obviously deliberately-obfuscatory time period of 2018-2021, when stimulus was occurring, to conceal this fact.)

I wish I could get paid to write utter dipshit stuff like this. What a dream gig.

We won, we did it! If you exclude the cost of food, energy, shelter, and used cars.

I’m glad people in general are making fun of Krugman for this ridiculous BS. The economist logic of, “If you exclude all that people need to live, we’ve conquered inflation” is just freakin’ inexplicable.

I wonder about that though. Does Krugman (and all the other econs — emphasis on “con” — who espouse that) know they are lying? Or do they really believe? I think some of them do know it’s all flimflam but I think a lot of them are deeply convinced of what they are spouting; against all right and reason, they truly do think that they are providing useful information free of bias.

And that is in many ways even scarier than if they were just deceiving us. You can convince a dishonest person to drop the deceit with the right incentives. But with a true believer there is no hope.

Fans of Connections, rejoice! Rebooted classic sci-doc series returns with original host.

Nice. Used to absolutely love Connections as a kid.

Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir’s Moulin Rouge at PyeongChang 2018.

They have better balance on ice than I do walking down a flat sidewalk. It’s amazing that humans can create something as gorgeous as this and then slaughter each other with abandon not too far away.

Is one possible without the other? I hope so.

The first ten on today’s playlist:

So glad I got to see her live. She’s so fucking good that way. Her studio albums are meh but her live performances are amazing.

I used to like watching Wendy James when her band’s music videos came on back in the day on MTV, but I had no idea that she was so interesting and intelligent as a person.

She just has an intense calmness that is really appealing.

Reminds me of Pantera, but if Phil Anselmo had been a woman.

That seems like an extremely relevant interview question for that fine establishment

American Airlines Dangles $250,000 Bonuses to Poach FedEx and UPS Pilots.

BRB, going to pilot school. Never mind, pulling a Frank Abagnale, Jr. instead. Much easier.