On the workplace relations that result in business gibberish.

*Coptalk is defined by what at first seem to be paradoxes. On the one hand, it is saturated with anodyne, technical language — the exhaustive precision demanded by official reports and internal reviews. On the other, it is fundamentally evasive. This might seem contradictory, but in fact reveals a kind of systematic cunning …*

This cunning addresses the problem of how to kill and then frame someone and make it sound like just another day's work.

Proposing a step-by-step relaxation of lockdown rules, allowing increasing amounts of various activities but still preventing transmission of Covid-19.

*Misinformation Hampered Ebola Response. The Same Thing Could Happen With Coronavirus.* Indeed, right-wing nuts (including the president) are already promoting this.

His henchmen, too.

The job of the US Trade Representative is corrupt at the root. It consists of promoting business-supremacy treaties, twisting arms to impose them on countries, to help companies dominate people and turn democracy into a sham. This has been the case for decades, probably at least 40 years.

If the US Trade Representative told me that 2 + 2 = 4, I would get out my computer to check.

From "free" countries' governments to private hospitals, freedom of speech is threatened in the name of "protecting" us.

Only 3/4 of the new electric generating capacity built in 2019 was renewable.

How foolish it is to build any infrastructure that depends on fossil fuels! We must put an end to that practice, on the double.