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May 20 2018
Season Finale
That’s it for Saturday Night Live this year. I suppose they’ll be back again in early September, maybe late August. It’s always sucked ever since the original crew (minus Chevy Chase, plus Bill Murray) left in 1980 but this year didn’t suck as badly as most. The criticism of Trump & Co. was scathing and …
May 19 2018
Triple Crown: The Middle Child
This is the most racist theme song of the Triple Crown- Maryland, My Maryland The despot’s heel is on thy shore, Maryland! His torch is at thy temple door, Maryland! Avenge the patriotic gore That flecked the streets of Baltimore, And be the battle queen of yore, Maryland! My Maryland! Hark to an exiled son’s …
May 18 2018
Italeave
If you’re a fan of the Euro and the European currency union you have a very flawed concept of what money is and the effects of Neo Liberal economic policy on income distribution, though I suppose you could argue that one cow token is just as good as another and the pocket it’s in doesn’t …
May 17 2018
Our New Torturer-in-Chief
Democratic Quislings including especially Mark Warner, Sellout from Virginia, are hiding behind the fig leaf that she finally said, after Open AND Closed Door hearings where she declined to answer except for weasel words and Filibusters, in a letter that regarding whether she found torture ineffective and immoral, that it was “wrong” and that she …
May 17 2018
Junior
So yesterday the Senate Intelligence Committee published about 1800 pages of closed door testimony from their hearings (so far, unlike the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, they have not yet issued a bogus, self-contradictory “final” report, supported only by the radical racist and rabidly partisan Republicans, in an attempt to pretend the burgeoning scandal …
May 16 2018
Traitors and Cowards
What’s that drip, drip, drip sound? Call the Plumbers Drain The Swamp Maybe it’s the water Getting to the bottom of it Or maybe it’s this
May 16 2018
Cartnoon
N Korea threatens to cancel Trump summit BBC 16 May 2018 State news agency KCNA quoted Vice-Foreign Minister Kim Kye-gwan as saying that if the US “corners us and unilaterally demands we give up nuclear weapons we will no longer have an interest in talks and will have to reconsider whether we will accept the …
May 14 2018
In the long run…
One of the conveniences of Economics is to assume an infinite span of time. Thus if your particular model is unreflective of current events you can blithely wave the discrepancy away by merely asserting that it simply hasn’t worked yet. While that motivational optimism is helpful on a personal level the fact is that people …