Tag: Covid19
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If Team Biden Succeeds With Their Pandemic Response – Which They Will – The Rest Of Their Mission Gets Easier
The headline says it all: If Team Biden — Joe, the Pandemic Response Team he’s already formed plus the rest of his remarkable brain trust — succeeds in its pandemic response, the next steps in healing America will be easier. Team Trump have set the bar remarkably low. Even “success bordering on failure” will look…
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Will Covid-19 Be The End Of Feature Films & Movie Theaters?
I’ve been writing & producing feature films & TV shows for 35 years. Boy, has this business changed. And then changed again. In 1985, when I arrived in Los Angeles from the East Coast, the feature business and the TV business were strangers to each other. One did not cross over freely from one to…
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Capitalism Doesn’t Have To Crush People — Only CRONY Capitalism Does That
Like all ideas, capitalism itself is neither good nor bad. It’s just an idea — a foundational notion of how a society might live, using capital as a motivator for innovation. Capitalism, by its nature, looks to the future. It depends on tomorrow being better than today — it needs new ideas, new inventions, new…
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Dear Rich Guys: Learn From History! If You Kill Off Too Many Workers, The Workers Will Control The Labor Market!
The current crop of Republicans would have felt right at home in Feudal Europe — all of them vassals to corrupt king Donald who, himself, sold out the Kingdom to the Kingdom’s chief rival, King Vlad The Impaler. Feudalism relied on having lots of peasants to work the lord’s fields. The Black Plague gutted Europe,…
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There Simply Is No Conservative Way Out Of This Mess; Conservatism Put Us Here
How do pandemics happen? After the pathogen gets revved up — and finds its entree into human hosts — the next important event is denial. China denied it had a problem. That made their problem exponentially larger — and then made their problem EVERYONE’S problem. Coronavirus became OUR problem because we’re humans sharing the planet…