Stable Genius Liberal

300 MW Of Solar Approved By City Of Los Angeles

By 2016, LA could have 25% renewable energy and 33% by 2020

Amartya Sen: I think that Piketty’s conclusions mostly stand

I think that Piketty’s conclusions mostly stand. There are one or two exceptions, including the fact that these conclusions probably apply a little less to the United Kingdom than to many of the other countries which he discusses – they certainly apply to the United States very well. So I think that the summary story that inequality has been growing quite sharply in recent decades, and in recent years in particular, is true.

Home-Grown, Right-Wing Terrorism: The Hate the GOP Refuses to See

right at the start of the Obama era, when then-Secretary of Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano issued a report (PDF) entitled: “Right-wing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment”? The report was truly prescient. It alerted us to the rise of right-wing extremism, such as from white supremacist groups, and warned that unchecked, it could lead to violence.

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How to Tell the Difference Between an Open-Carry Patriot and a Deranged Killer – Boing Boing

Krugman suggests Carbon Tariffs on China

if and when wealthy countries take serious action to limit greenhouse gas emissions, they’re very likely to start imposing “carbon tariffs” on goods imported from countries that aren’t taking similar action. Such tariffs should be legal under existing trade rules — the World Trade Organization would probably declare that carbon limits are effectively a tax on consumers, which can be levied on imports as well as domestic production. Furthermore, trade rules give special consideration to environmental protection. So China would find itself with strong incentives to start limiting emissions.

I really like the idea. It make the argument about China not taking greenhouse gasses seriously mostly irrelevant. They need to trade with the industrialized west and those tariffs would be a huge incentive to sign on to a climate agreement.

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‎’Slut’ is attacking women for their right to say yes. ‘Friend Zone’ is attacking women for their right to say no. And “bitch” is attacking women for their right to call you on it. (via madgay)

Taxation of carried interest: The loophole for hedge fund managers could end tomorrow.

the income of a hedge fund manager is taxed at only 20 percent, which is the highest long-range capital gains rate—even though the hedge fund manager is deriving income that’s as directly earned as the wages of a steelworker.

This loophole will never close. No tax bill that closes it will ever leave the house.

Inside the terrifying, twisted online world of involuntary celibates

What happened is punishment for evil and violence of feminists and liberals. Any of you supporting atrocities like women’s suffrage, immodest clothing, child support/alimony, no ban on adultery, ban on prostitution and a lack of female premarital chastity, all the things that drove this young man to be unable to find a girlfriend, are disgusting , horrible people and you created a culture where this is possible.

Wow. So the people who believe that women are people with basic rights are responsible for the actions of misogynistic psychopaths who think women don’t count as people with basic rights?

And Incel is nonsense. There is no such thing as involuntary celibacy, as celibacy presumes that the celibate person is making a voluntary choice to not have sex. Its like calling starvation involuntary fasting

Five haredi men indicted for attacking gay black man in Brooklyn

he was walking through the heavily Orthodox neighborhood of Williamsburg on his way home to a nearby neighborhood when more than 12 Hasidic men attacked him while shouting anti-gay slurs.

If 12 members of a Muslim fundamentalist sect attacked a man this way, would it be covered differently? If the attacked man wasn’t gay, would it be covered differently?

Snowden Is The Kind of Guy I Used to Recruit—in Russia

As a former director of operations for the CIA, I see Snowden in a very different light. My colleagues and I in the agency spent our careers looking for people like him—on the other side, that is. We worked hard to locate the kind of person who could be persuaded to give up his country’s secrets: narcissistic, often delusional under-achievers whom we could hope to turn into loose-lipped sources in our enemies’ camps and other hostile locations. We understood just how valuable it was to every aspect of our foreign policy to know the plans and intentions of our enemies; the best way to do this was to look for a source and exploit people like Snowden, the National Security Agency leaker, to target for this purpose.

Not totally convinced. Not sure if Snowden even fits the description “narcissistic, often delusional under-achievers” very well. He seems to be pretty well thought out. And despite being a high school drop out, he seems not to fit the bumbling under-achievers mold.