News of the Day: Tuesday, December 21, 2021
1. Chattanooga shifted from a blue-collar manufacturing city to a new-economy (re: tourism, service industry, and tech/real estate) due to deliberate choices by the privileged classes that lord over the city from their Mountain and ridge homes. This transformation gets constant lovely praise from the "planners" and press, revealing in micro how politics really works. I enjoy some of those changes, but not all, and particularly oppose the anti-democratic means that achieved it. Too often, they don't ask: "for whom" does this benefit? FYI: this part of the story is complete b.s.: "Labor and management, black and white, rich and poor came together to discuss what they wanted their community to look like at the turn of the millennium." Uh, nope. https://www.city-journal.org/technology-infrastructure-how-chattanooga-reinvented-itself?skip=1
2. "There are some 3.6 million fewer workers now than there were in February 2020" and where they went. https://nypost.com/2021/12/17/how-covid-shook-up-the-labor-market/
3. If we move to space, we can at least have good peppers to eat. https://www.wired.com/story/growing-peppers-on-the-iss-is-just-the-start-of-space-farming/
4. Dems know their goose is cooked for 2022. https://www.theblaze.com/news/top-dem-pollsters-paint-bleak-picture-for-democrats-and-they-have-the-data-to-prove-it
5. The Fear Variant of the Month. https://spectatorworld.com/topic/inside-omicron-variant-fear-factory-new-york-covid/
*Bonus: I like MindMap, used here by @erichunley https://www.mindmeister.com/2130546176?t=OsSLZNUChS