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More thoughts on the current state of the Republican party

 Linking to this post by Gruber so I will have it to refer back to.  Not so much for the David Brooks piece which is trying to define the current Republican state, but for the link to Maureen Dowd's brothers Thanksgiving OpEd written from the position of a Trump supporter.  It's hard to fathom how there can be such a radical differing of views about this presidency.  I have no doubts that absent something worse coming along in the next decade, this administration will be forever recorded in history as the most corrupt, dishonest administration in our time.  Lying right out of the gate about pointless stuff like inauguration size, no shame about coining the phrase 'alternative facts', firing one inspector general after another to hide the corruption within the administration, it was a relentless 4 years of corruption and greed.  To be indifferent to the attack on the foundations of democracy by refusing to acknowledge the vote and actively trying to get stat...

Still trying to process this divide between parties and that somehow scientific facts are now caught up in it.

 Perhaps it's always been this way and I just never noticed... Issac Asimov Quote

The troubling case of US life expectancy

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The troubling case of US life expectancy Why is life expectancy in the US lower than in other rich countries? Hat Tip to  The Big Picture (ritholtz.com)