First of all, John Oliver is back! To do whatever it is that he does. Yay! Second, I don’t know whether John feels it as keenly as I do, but I really hate repeating myself. Unfortunately people keep being stupid. Brexit III: The Sequel To Brexit II: Invasion of the Intergalactic Space Lords
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Feb 17 2019
Captain Planet
Ok, that one’s a little obscure. In addition to his many other accomplishments Don Cheadle was the star of the eponymous Captain Planent on Funny or Die, the funny part of which was that he was nothing like the hero of the Saturday moring children’s cartoon of the same name. I used it for a …
Feb 16 2019
Another Rose Garden Meltdown
Comemntary on yesterday’s long expected development is basically divided into 2 main threads. First is- ZOMG! Unindicted Co-conspirator Bottomless Pinocchio could win given this Supreme Court! He really can’t because it not just the broad challenges on Constitutionality which are true and precedented, but also the thousands of small lawsuits by Landowners many of whom …
Feb 15 2019
Losing With A Stiff Upper Lip
Apparently Theresa May’s strategy is to let the clock go “tick, tick, tick” until the Parliament is forced either to accept her terrible plan, which has been shot down yet again by an embarrassing margin in a vote last night, or accept a “No Deal” Brexit. What’s really just as, if not more, likely to …
Feb 15 2019
Even More Losing
So last night we had alarms and excursions (Ok, you may not be familiar with that expression, it’s Elizabethan Theater stage direction, an alarm is just that, excursion in this sense means everyone leaves the Stage and “goes on a trip” to the Wings. I use excursion here in it’s secondary meaning of launching into …
Feb 14 2019
Sam’s Valentine
Destination Wedding With Gritty Fat Shaming Doctors Stock Footage Featuring Herr Doktor Professor
Feb 13 2019
The August 2nd Meeting
One of the things I like to do is point out seminal pieces. This one from WaPo has been the subject of pretty constant comment and reports a meeting on August 2nd, 2016 between Rick Gates, Paul Manafort, and Konstantin Kilimnik, Manafort’s partner in his Ukrainian Political Consulting operation in a Cigar Club named the …
Feb 12 2019
So Much Losing
I imagine that Unidicted Co-conspirator Bottomless Pinocchio is tired of it by now. There is no doubt that the Government Shutdown/Vanity Project Penis Wall O’ Racism has turned out badly. Unidicted Co-conspirator Bottomless Pinocchio shed many points off his already abysmally low Approval Ratings and is likely to go even lower as his core of …
Feb 12 2019
Debt And Deficit Doublespeak
From Republicans I mean, not Herr Doktor Professor. Democrats, Debt and Double Standards By Paul Krugman, The New York Times Feb. 11, 2019 Republicans spent the entire Obama administration inveighing constantly about the dangers of debt, warning that America faced a looming crisis unless deficits were drastically reduced. Now that they’re in power, however — …
Feb 11 2019
Banksters Didn’t Just Disappear You Know
Robert Reich identifies some popular misconception about Socialism (others being that it is the same as Communism. a disincentive to talent and effort, or has a negative effect on an Economy’s net wealth) and those are the myths that our “Free” Market is really free and provides no particular advantage to anyone and an even …
Feb 11 2019
Political Economics
In the “classical” (there are other ways of looking at it) history of Economic thought among Anglophones it has always been closely tied with desired political outcomes. This is why as a student I was forced to take classes in it (to be fair Art, Music, and Literature were also core requirements) even though I …
Feb 10 2019
Chuckles the Clown
Who can turn the world on with their smile? Somewhere in the dim dark vaults of the Intertubz is a picture of me standing next to MTM’s statue in Minneapolis. Jeff Bezos’ Penis Let’s just stay on this topic the whole show. He doesn’t like you. I don’t like you either. Don’t ride angry. Congress’ …