Open Thread September 10, 2022

Yesterday, I awoke feeling pretty good, despite not being able to say the same about the way I felt when I went to bed. Now if I only had the energy to go with that.

Cartoon – The start of Tucker Carlson’s Trust Fund

Short Takes –

Letters from an American – September 7, 2022
Quote – Today, in Texas, U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor undercut a key part of the Affordable Care Act, more popularly known as Obamacare…. O’Connor is famous for his decisions against the federal government. In a 2018 decision, he tried to get rid of the ACA altogether, but the Supreme Court upheld the law by a vote of 7–2. Today, in Braidwood Management v. Becerra, he decided that the members of one of the three panels deciding preventive treatments have been appointed unconstitutionally and upheld the argument that the PrEP requirement violated the plaintiffs’ religious rights. He reserved his ruling on how to fix these issues.
Click through for full letter. She also addresses Moore v. Harper. This stuff can get lost amongst all the criminal legal news.

The Conversation – Tiny algae could help fix concrete’s dirty little climate secret – 4 innovative ways to clean up this notoriously hard to decarbonize industry
Quote – Concrete is strong, durable, affordable and available to almost every community on the planet. However, the global concrete industry has a dirty little secret – it alone is responsible for more than 8% of global carbon dioxide emissions – more than three times the emissions associated with aviation. Those emissions doubled in the past two decades as Asian cities grew, and demand is continuing to expand at an unprecedented rate…. The primary culprit behind concrete’s climate impact is the production of portland cement – the powder used to make concrete.
Click through for more on the problem and the potential mitigation. I’m willing to bet thay when you step on a concrete sidewalk or enter a concrete building, “climate change” is not the subject that leaps to mind.

Food For Thought