Author's posts
Aug 27 2019
The Reverse Ouroboros
Cody’s Showdy revisits QAnon after a copyright takedown of the original
Aug 27 2019
Cartnoon
You have to remember that in addition to Sports, Clio, all things piratey, and Arts and Entertainment, I’m on the site’s Economics beat, and I think this is screamingly funny. But it’s also instructive. Tulip Mania is a factual and seminal illustration of the fundamental weaknesses of Markets.
Aug 26 2019
G7- 2020
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. So Unindicted Co-conspirator Bottomless Pinocchio spent a lot of time at the G7 promoting Doral (which he owns and will charge top dollar for) as the site of next year’s G7. It’s not quite a done deal yet but the fix is in. Do you remember …
Aug 25 2019
Italy’s Revolving Door
I missed this, been a bit busy and it didn’t show up as a topic among my other usual suspects. I think it’s significant as an indication of the pressure on most member Nations of the EuroZone and the EU. Italy’s Right-Wing Government Collapses – Will the Next One Be Better? The Real News August …
Aug 24 2019
Sometimes it’s like this.
Posting from North Lake can be interesting, in that painful sense that it’s not at all reliable. However, since North Lake is pretty remote (we don’t have cell service, landlines only) they’re literally the only game in town. They are fairly prompt at fixing it if by prompt you mean anywhere from 8 to 48 …
Aug 22 2019
On Mental Health
So I’m also the site’s clinically diagnosed sufferer from Depression and Anxiety (also SAD and PTSD) and I’ve been in Therapy for years (I recommend it to everyone). I’ve come to the conclusion that Existential Depression is not my main problem at the moment, in 14 Billion years or so the Universe will either disperse …
Aug 22 2019
Erik Thorvaldson’s Big Swindle
I suppose as the resident Viking (I’m a quarter Danish, that’s why I have the Ben Franklin seal of ‘Whiteness’ you turkeys which is proof enough that not every idea is a good one) I have to say something about Greenland, and Denmark for that matter. Denmark is basically a flat swampy part of Germany …