As a member since Strangers With Candy I can’t say I’m surprised when Stephen reveals his policy wonk chops (nor his Star Wars and LotR geekdom though I must say he includes sources I don’t consider canon). I do think it a sad but hardly original commentary on the current state of what passes for …
Tag: ek Politics
Oct 31 2019
Slipped Initials
Customarily Butterscotch Schnapps and Irish Cream. I get a little diabetic just thinking about it. Season of the Itch I don’t know about you but allergies are kicking my ass this season (I blame Global Warming) and I can’t sleep because of the congestion and spend the day nauseated because of the phlegm. Sharing too …
Oct 30 2019
‘This game shall soon reach its inevitable conclusion, and the final triumph shall belong to… Dr. Doom!’
You remember Nouriel Roubini, the Economist who predicted the Great Recession (Krugman recognized it once it was here)? Well he was just at the Annual meeting of the IMF and he’s very pessimistic. When recession comes, expect central banks to rewrite the rules by Nouriel Roubini, The Guardian Tue 29 Oct 2019 (F)inancial markets have …
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 Consider yourself lucky Robspierre is out of date and Jughashvili unfashionable so our more benevolent, Amish, nature leads us to mild expressions of disapproval like shunning your company in restaurants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 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 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 …
Oct 25 2019
Refuseniks
To bottom line it you know by now that Moscow Mitch and Lily Livered Lindsey’s Senate Resolution (non binding because it’s blatantly unConstitutional and historically the House doesn’t give a rat’s ass what the Senate thinks about it’s procedures- piss up a rope!) condemning the rules the House is using to conduct it’s investigation of …