DWS is not an idiot, she knows exactly what she is doing and it’s painfully obvious she cares more about bootlicking the donor class of Billionaire .01%ers than she does about you or the Democratic Party she titularly heads (I could make an inappropriate fellatio joke here, but it’s enough to allude it and I …
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Jan 15 2016
Oppressed by the Tubz!
The Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It’s not a big truck. It’s a series of tubes. And if you don’t understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it’s going to be delayed by anyone that …
Jan 15 2016
Another reason to Vote for Bernie
As if you needed one. Many people have told me this will not reclaim the soul of the Democratic Party. Most of them are hopelessly sold out, even Bernie. He is just the least sold out. True that. But I’m a cock-eyed optimist, I hope that the end of the Neolib era comes at the …
Jan 14 2016
Republican Debate #???
Well, anyway, the last one before Iowa. Since it’s a Faux Plutocrat Pandering Production who better to go to than Faux itself? An evening debate of lower-polling candidates begins at 6 p.m. ET. Those qualifying for that debate are: Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul; former HP CEO Carly Fiorina; former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee; and former …
Jan 14 2016
Lying for Mom
Not that it makes you a bad person. I’d cheerfully lie for Emily, in fact I lie all the time just for sport (sometimes 17 times before breakfast, you have to get up pretty early in the morning to out-lie me). In fact I’ll pass along for free Archie Goodwin’s (Nero Wolf’s partner, you should …
Jan 13 2016
The Horror. The Horror.
I remember when I was with Special Forces… seems a thousand centuries ago. We went into a camp to inoculate some children. We left the camp after we had inoculated the children for polio, and this old man came running after us and he was crying. He couldn’t see. We went back there, and they …
Jan 12 2016
State of the Union: Obama is an Open Failure
Obama is an Open Failure, as a president and as a human being. In the 8 years of his Administration he has delivered on hardly a single promise he has made during his campaigns and in his State of the Union addresses. Let’s take Obamacare, supposedly his keystone, his signature achievement. It is nothing but …
Jan 11 2016
Minority Report
It sounds like dystopian Science Fiction except that it’s all true. Now I’ve never liked Tom Cruise or his movies with the sole exception of Risky Business though I’ve also watched Top Gun more than once and always been disappointed with myself that I am so unimaginative and addicted to television that this seemed like …
Jan 08 2016
A Finite World- Deflation Expectation
POOF! Keynes 101. 2016: Oil Limits and the End of the Debt Supercycle By Gail Tverberg, Naked Capitalism Posted on January 8, 2016 The problem of reaching limits in a finite world manifests itself in an unexpected way: slowing wage growth for non-elite workers. Lower wages mean that these workers become less able to afford …
Jan 07 2016
What Investor State Dispute Settlement Looks Like
So you say you’re in favor of “Free” Trade and the acronym trade agreements and I and others have told you that it’s just an excuse for the oligarch corporatist anti-democratic coup. Well… TransCanada to Sue U.S. for Blocking Keystone XL Pipeline By IAN AUSTEN, The New York Times JAN. 6, 2016 TransCanada said on …
Jan 07 2016
The House of Saud
I pretty sure I’ve mentioned that the big sectarian rift between Sunnis and Shiites is that the Sunnis think that the first Caliph was Mohammad’s father-in-law Abu Bakr while Shiites think it was his son-in-law and cousin Ali ibn Abi Talib. Personally I think the Shia have the better case though I also think that …
Jan 05 2016
The End Of Oil
Hyperbole, but there is a lot of truth in it. The economic utility of oil (outside of its lubricant properties) is that it’s extremely portable and has high energy density. Heavier than air flight was not possible prior to the Wrights (or Gustav Whitehead depending on who you believe) because the engines and fuel were …