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Nov 30 2016
Why The Rory Hate?
I always identified more with Lorelai, to me the interesting thing about the show was her relationship with Richard and Emily. I felt it mirrored some of my connections with my parents which may seem pretty Ozzie and Harriet on the surface but which, if you’re a regular reader, you’ll know were dark and twisted …
Nov 30 2016
“No matter where you go, there you are.”
– Buckaroo Banzai How the Democrats could win again, if they wanted by Thomas Frank, The Guardian Tuesday 29 November 2016 07.00 EST And here we are again. Today Democrats are wondering what went wrong, but before too many fundraising dinners have been digested they will have concluded they don’t need to worry, that demographics …
Nov 29 2016
The Front Page Poem
As the resident Gilmore Geek you can imagine my dismay at this scurrilous and unwarranted attack in the Atlantic. The Stars Hollow Gazette is not the New York Times. The Stars Hollow Gazette is not the Hartford Courant. Of course not and even to be mentioned in comparison with those stenographic parrots of the Neoliberal …
Nov 29 2016
The Economic Lessons of Scrooge McDuck
If you’ve had a cultural experience like mine (I had 2 of every network broadcast including PBS and 3 Independents, and now watch not just constantly but exclusively Cartoons and ‘Tween Comedies) you’re probably familiar with Cracked magazine and think of it as a sort of poor man’s Mad without those Sergio Aragoné cartoons in …
Nov 28 2016
Math Problems
One problem people have with Economics is understanding ‘future math’ and by that I mean how decisions today effect outcomes at some specified (or not so much) time yet to come. One way this concept is used to lie to you is to increase your perception of present costs by aggregating cumulative costs over time. …
Nov 23 2016
The Green Party Is Good For Something
Have I mentioned I’ve stood for representative election? Locals get a certain number of votes based on their enrolled membership but they don’t have to muster their entire roster at election time and in other bodies like the Executive Committee get only a fixed number of votes regardless of whether the have 600 members or …
Nov 23 2016
A Man, A Plan, A Canal
Did you know my Great Grandfather worked on the Panama Canal? Not anything glamorous like blasting or running a steam shovel. Nah, he worked in the payroll office passing out checks. One of the things they’d do as they arrived was throw their (Panama of course) hat off the boat when they arrive to symbolize …
Nov 22 2016
Tequila and Skee Ball
And Alanis, Alan, Jay and Silent Bob, Chris Rock, and George Carlin. Also Janeane Garofalo, Salma Hayek, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Linda Fiorentino The Voice of God Herself (close your ears or you brain will explode).
Nov 22 2016
“You know, fiction.”
Media Stars Agree to Off-the-Record Meeting With Trump, Break Agreement, Whine About Mistreatment by Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept November 22 2016, 7:26 a.m. A glittering array of media stars and network executives made pilgrimage on Monday to the 25th floor of Trump Tower to meet with the president-elect. They all agreed that the discussions would …
Nov 18 2016
Safety Pins and Yellow Stars
For years and years I’ve been ‘out’ about my Danish ancestry (grandson of an immigrant, the rest mostly German/English as befits someone born in Michigan) because I thought being a Pirate was pretty cool (Arrgh) and I don’t want to defend the fact that I’m whiter than white, though following the “one drop” principle I’m …
Nov 17 2016
The ‘Normalization’ Agenda
Like the Frog in the Kettle change is all around you, happening at a bewildering rate and yet too slowly to notice. The last 40 years doesn’t seem much to me, yet it’s a quarter of my life and all the time the pot has been getting hotter and hotter. The instinct of the Establishment …