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Jul 31 2019
Great Debate: Part Two Day One
I am voting for Marianne Williamson. Don’t try to argue me out of it, she is definitely the kind of motivational speaker we need to feel good about having burned the planet to a cinder and causing the largest global extinction since oxygen exhaling plants poisoned about every other species. Still working for Mike Gravel …
Jul 30 2019
Yeah, Wow!
It’s like picking up The New York Times and finding it in a more “Gothic” font and titled “Der Stürmer”. Is this ever Ok? Germans were ever so quick with “I learned it from watching you“. The Rebellion Of Slavers (some persist in calling it a “civil” war) was lost and were it 1865 and …
Jul 29 2019
Mating Foxes
“I paint busses.” It’s not misspelled. It was the standard plural until 1961 and has the additional meaning of kiss which makes it punny. True Tinder material. The English Major writes you are a hopeless audience, but he’s only drawing a light bird pension.
Jul 29 2019
Cartnoon
Sometimes they are funny. Trump slams ‘rat-infested’ district – but his own restaurant had a rodent problem by Edward Helmore, The Guardian Sat 27 Jul 2019 Donald Trump attacked the House oversight committee chair, Elijah Cummings, on Saturday, claiming his congressional district in Baltimore was a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess”. But Trump has …
Jul 28 2019
Not A Rant
From Black Weed Smoking Sharks to Brain Eating Ameoba it’s Sum, Sum, Sum, Summertime. Umbrella Uprising? We always thought it would be the Robots. Happy Summer everybody.
Jul 28 2019
Poor Ms. MoDo
People on the Intertubz is mean. Spare Me the Purity Racket By Maureen Dowd, The New York Times July 27, 2019 After I interviewed Nancy Pelosi a few weeks ago, The HuffPost huffed that we were Dreaded Elites because we were eating chocolates and — horror of horrors — the speaker had on some good …
Jul 28 2019
House
Nothing to see here at all Did Norman murder the girl in the Bates Motel? Yes, or No? To understand the case, you have to go back to the time ten years ago when the young Norman murdered his mother and her lover. Matricide: perhaps. The most unbearable crime of all. Norman refused to come …
Jul 27 2019
Walk Spoiled
I’m not quite sure why I’ve turned into the Site’s resident Golf Expert in the same way I’m not sure why I’m the resident Economist. Someone has to do it I suppose and it’s true enough that I play and have been involved with a Charity Tournament or two (great fundraisers), keeping as far away …
Jul 27 2019
So You Thought LIBOR Was Fixed
Well, yes actually, but not in the sense of functioning as advertised. Banks Sued for LIBOR Collusion — Again! By Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone July 26, 2019 LIBOR was once set by the British Bankers’ Association. It’s now managed by the Intercontinental Exchange, owners of the New York Stock Exchange, which rebranded it “ICE LIBOR.” …
Jul 27 2019
House
You’ll be pleased to know (at least I am pleased to tell it) that having survived the recent bat attacks with minor losses I am safely in my bunker with 10 years worth of Twinkies and smuggled A&W. I Fell In Love With The Devil – Avril Lavigne Stressed Out – twenty one pilots April …