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Oct 29 2019
The Economy Stupid
Among other negative auguries for Republican prospects in 2020 is the fact that the economy is slowing down in critical areas. Already twice as much has been spent on mitigating the effects of a foolishly belligerent Trade Policy as were spent to prop up the Automakers during the Great Recession. The signature stimulus program, the …
Oct 29 2019
The Witching Hour
As usual the situation in Old Blighty is extremely confused but it it appears there are certain developments worthy of report. First of all the EU has agreed to accept Johnson’s unsigned official request for an extension and ignore his passionately signed “I didn’t really mean it letter”, so England has until the end of …
Oct 28 2019
An Attack of ‘Civility’
Bonus Content! I need not tell you how I feel about ‘Civility’. Your poor widdle fee-fees are hurt? I’m not your Mother. Consider yourself lucky Robspierre is out of date and Jughashvili unfashionable so our more benevolent, Amish, nature leads us to mild expressions of disapproval like shunning your company in restaurants instead of more …
Oct 28 2019
Another Open and Shut Case
I haven’t featured Robert Reich in a while, can’t quite say why that is because he’s just as good and on topic as ever. Perhaps because, as I’ve said, the whole thing is so corrupt that if you pull on any particular string at all it unravels like a sweater attacted by a cute of …
Oct 28 2019
Abandoning the Kurds
It doesn’t pay to be a United States ally, just ask the Montagnards or the Pashtun. As John Oliver says, it’s complicated. I could tell you all about the Treaty of Lausanne but I’m not really that interested in cranking out a 2500 word piece this morning, I have other things to do.
Oct 27 2019
My Favorite Mexico
Comedy is hard. Even with the best material it’s frequently not funny. I have a Sports Injury. Carpal Tunnel. Such a normal kid 10 Second Justice Energizers last longer I dunno. Maybe you don’t hang around with ER Doctors enough. That one kills every time. Oops So Max Verstappen would be starting on pole in …
Oct 27 2019
Haunted House
Every Day Is Halloween – Ministry This Is Halloween – Marylin Manson Bela Lugosi’s Dead – Bauhaus
Oct 26 2019
Panic Attacks
I try to be upfront about the fact I’m clinically depressed and anxious and under treatment for it but am not so badly disabled I require medication. If you met me at some random and brief length of time you wouldn’t know unless I told you. I understand quite well what an anxiety (they used …
Oct 25 2019
Abner Louima Time
On the night of August 9, 1997, the police were called and several officers from the 70th Precinct were dispatched to the scene where Abner Louima and other men had got involved in a fight between two females in Club Rendez-Vous, a popular nightclub in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. Police, supporters, and various people all became …