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Oct 27 2017
November 22, 1963
It seems I am not done with you yet. I was quite happy yesterday. Rachel Maddow validated my current obsession (actually kind of a deadline throw-away dedicated to Richard in the same way as my Formula One coverage), however as it turns out it is so much less than it should have been. Rachel attributes …
Oct 26 2017
“Only The MOST Scurrilous Rumors”
The reason they call The New York Times “The Gray Lady” is not a mad romance of assonance or even Puritan rectitude of content. It’s because until recently (October 16, 1997- Tony Fernandez HR sends Cleveland Indians to World Series) the NYT refused to print color photographs. A Glossary of Key Figures and Conspiracy Theories …
Oct 26 2017
Relax. It’s Just A Game.
And as always it’s so much easier when you can “appeal to authority” and let a Nobel Prize Winner in Economics (no, the other one) carry your water (4 Gallons a day for desert operations, amounting to 32 pounds which doesn’t seem like much until you try to lift it, though, like gas in Formula …
Oct 25 2017
October
As I may have mentioned I’m a trained acolyte of Clio, an inclination I sometimes indulge much to the dismay of my readers. Eisenstein’s October is not history, it’s not even good fiction. It is propoganda. As Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian puts it- October has fierce, declamatory intertitles with exclamation points, unforgettably intense closeups …
Oct 24 2017
A Real Boy!
A lie keeps growing and growing until it’s as plain as the nose on your face. I’ll bet a lot of you folks don’t believe that, about a wish comin’ true, do ya? Well, I didn’t, either. I’d rather be smart than be an actor. What’s a conscience! I’ll tell ya! A conscience is that …
Oct 23 2017
Stephanie Kelton: Modern Monetary Theory on Debt and Deficits
After the Great Debate between Sanders and Cruz on the Republican Tax Plan The Real News interviewed Stephanie Kelton for her reaction. Why won’t we end up like Greece? What did Greece do that got Greece into so much trouble? It isn’t that Greece borrowed and had high public debt that got Greece into trouble. …
Oct 22 2017
Hurray For Big Carbon!
Fact: VHS Tape is made out of Hydrocarbons Do the Math. Umm… $214 Million – $216 Million is… too hard Who needs that Math stuff anyway? Everything I need to know I learned from Jean Luc Picard and Olórin
Oct 19 2017
Bernie Debate Mania!
Whether you think that Bernie Sanders is running for President in 2020, or if that’s a good idea or not, there is no denying that he’s been relentless in pushing the acceptable limits of political debate in the United States (Overton Window) to the Left in ways that mere Democrats haven’t. I last pointed out …
Oct 17 2017
Totenkopfverbände
The Death’s Head Units of the Schutzstaffel were directly in charge of the administration and operation of the concentration camps and extermination facilities of Nazi Germany. These included (but were not limited to) Dachau, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Ravensbrück, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Mauthausen-Gusen, Treblinka, Bełżec, Sobibór, Chełmno, and Majdanek. They reported to the Reich Main Security Office (RHSA) and …
Oct 16 2017
It’s not just the NSA
The thing to remember about digital communications is that they’re terribly insecure, even before incredibly stupid ideas like magic golden key backdoors that will only be used against terrorists. And drug smugglers. And child pornographers. And PETA. And Greenpeace. And Black Lives Matter Activists. Well, basically anyone deemed an annoyance to the Neo Liberal New …
Oct 16 2017
Take From The Poor And Give To The Rich: Robbin’ The ‘Hood
I’m sure those are not the right words. I must be Mabel after all, and I shall have to go and live in that poky little house, and have next to no toys to play with, and oh! ever so many lessons to learn! No, I’ve made up my mind about it; if I’m Mabel, …
Oct 15 2017
__IT!
__IT! “Politics always change. Stories never do.” “Kill you all! Try to stop me and I’ll kill you all! Drive you crazy and then kill you all! You can’t stop me!” Truckers About that “very nasty” Rap It’s the calm before the storm right here Wait, how was I gonna start this off? I forgot… …