Spoilers for Spider-Man: No Way Home ahead.
Back in December, Marvel released the final installment of the current Spider-Man trilogy, Spider-Man: No Way Home. The film was met with both critical acclaim and commercial success, becoming one of the top 10 highest grossing films of all time.
No Way Home follows high school seniors Peter Parker, Michelle “MJ” Jones, and Ned Leeds as they navigate a world complicated by Spider-Man’s secret identity being leaked to the public.
"Neoliberalism" is a dirty word in some circles. A lot of my market-oriented friends view it as nothing more than an empty slur. And, to be fair, that is precisely how a lot of people on the left do, in fact, use it.
But as some pretty good scholarship over the last decade has shown, neoliberalism is a term with a fairly specific historical and philosophical meaning. The term has its origins in the 1938 Colloque Walter Lippman where individuals like Friedrich Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, Michael Polanyi, and Wilhelm Röpke gathered to discuss the principles of a “new liberalism” that would serve as an alternative both to the socialist authoritarianism of the 20th century and what they regarded as the extreme laissez-faire of the 19th.
On February 13, 2024, Invitae Corporation ($NVTA) and five affiliates (collectively, the “debtors”) filed chapter 11 bankruptcy cases in the District of New Jersey (Judge Kaplan) — breaking a recent string of filings in the District of Delaware (InVivo Therapeutics Corporation, NanoString Technologies Inc., Cano Health Inc., Burgess BioPower LLC, and Sientra Inc.). Go Garden State!
Invitae is a medical genetics company in the business of delivering genetic testing services, digital health solutions, and health data services; its genetic testing across multiple clinical areas is meant to arm healthcare providers with data that can assist patient understanding of their particular health risks and develop care strategies to deal with them.
I was beyond excited to see New Grass Revival get inducted into the Bluegrass Hall of Fame on Thursday night. I got to know the band through a cassette edition of the greatest hits album purchased at a truck stop for a trans-national drive in a friend’s pickup truck. Damn good highway music. I’d known about Sam Bush and Bela Fleck by then, but the NGR music only made me more fascinated in them.
Hello Friends, I would like to share a photograph with you.
This is a billboard at what is more than likely the busiest intersection in Del Rio, right next to Veteran’s Blvd. and the HEB on Gibbs St/Highway 90.
For those lacking background and context, don’t worry, we’ll play in-depth catch-up and review in just a minute, suffice to say that Father Clay Hunt in the Cowboy hat on the left, and Father James Altman on the right, are a pair of lightning rods in a long-brewing crisis of conservative discontent in the Catholic Church.