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Aug 01 2018
Rocket Docket
Jury, Opening Arguments, First Witness. That was quick. Bottom line- blame it all on Gates who signed everything too and was skimming more than his share. Tad Devine is best known as a Democratic operative for Bernie Sanders and like many political professionals took advantage of the United States’ inflated reputation as some sort of …
Jul 31 2018
Mars Needs Women
Just how long have we been receiving these mysterious signals from outer space? Look up! Mars is closer to Earth than it’s been in 15 years By Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times Jul 31, 2018 Heads up, sky watchers: Tonight, Mars is going to be closer to Earth than it has been in 15 years, …
Jul 30 2018
Collusion is not a crime.
No, it isn’t. Though it is defined as a criminal conspiracy. Criminal Conspiracy is conspiring, that is acting and advising with a group, to commit a crime, like say money laundering or election fraud. I’ve always felt the corporatist buy in to the bowlderized “collusion” complicit but this very public abandonment of that story line …
Jul 30 2018
Gingham
As fabric always cotton. As a pattern colored on the warp yarn along the weft, this usually manifests as small square checkerboard rather than a stripe (vichy). Why would I know? Fabric is a near universal trade good (normally stores value a little better than food) and the adoption of mass production economies based on …
Jul 29 2018
Not Rants
Really!?! Beyonce and Jay-Z Who are these people and why do I care about them again? R. Kelly Oh, I don’t need any reminders about you, but just for context. He urinated on a 14 year old girl. On videotape. He bragged about it. Thank goodness we respect fine upstanding businesspeople and politicians instead of …
Jul 27 2018
Reality laughs
From the Start, Trump Has Muddied a Clear Message: Putin Interfered By David E. Sanger and Matthew Rosenberg, The New York Times July 18, 2018 Two weeks before his inauguration, Donald J. Trump was shown highly classified intelligence indicating that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia had personally ordered complex cyberattacks to sway the 2016 …
Jul 26 2018
Facebook Sucks
Facebook just had the worst day in stock market history by David Goldman, CNN July 26, 2018 Shares plunged 19% on Thursday after executives warned that revenue growth would slow as the company focuses on user privacy. The sell-off vaporized about $119 billion in market value — the biggest single-day loss for any public company …