Mother Earth

The post is aptly titled The Next Crash Will Be Ecological — and Nature Doesn’t Do Bailouts. It goes hand-in-hand with a thought in Bill McKibbens’ eaarth, “Global warming, though, is a negotiation between human beings on the one hand  and physics and chemistry on the other.  Which is a tough negotiation, because physics and [...]

Paul Simon’s Friend Alan Simpson

Paul Simon was a U.S. Senator from Illinois for many years.  When he decided to retire, his hand-picked successor is now the Majority Whip, Senator Dick Durbin. Maybe it was a case of the Senate being more collegial when Senator Simon served.  I don’t know.  But Senator Simon and Senator Alan Simpson (R – Wyoming) [...]

It Can Only Get Worse

Call me ‘negative.’  Call me ‘gloom and doom.’  I believe the handwriting in plainly on the wall. It started in the 1970s.  Reagan was the first embodiment of it.  It has picked up speed like a snow ball going downhill.

They Left A Word Out

And that word would be “cowardly” as in Retired Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.), made the remark Friday, in light of strong bipartisan objections to the bold cowardly deficit-cutting proposals he and commission co-chairman Erskine Bowles laid out 10 days ago. Read the whole story here. Pss-s-s-t:  I added the word ‘cowardly’ as it fits my [...]

Seems To Describe What Tea Baggers Are All About.

  ‘Cause everybody’s gotta have somebody to look down on Who they can feel better than at any time they please Someone doin’ somethin’ dirty decent folks can frown on If you can’t find nobody else, then help yourself to me Jesus was a Capricorn by Kris Kristofferson Kinda, sorta, maybe describes tribalism.

Society – Regulation

Probably a very long time ago, maybe 5 million or so years ago, pre-hominids formed into families or clans or bands or tribes or whatever you want to call them.  Somewhere along the way, they decided there was both safety in numbers and enhanced hunting ability.  But as they had this clan, they found that [...]

Pure BullShit

This is bullshit of the highest order. The tax code needs to be modified so the large corporations, such as Exxon-Mobile, which made around $23 BILLION in Net Profit last year, and General Electric, pay some income taxes.  These two giant corps paid no income tax.  That is flat wrong. And when it comes to [...]

Veteran’s Day

As far as I’m concerned business people i.e. corporations, use a Veteran’s Day holiday as a way to make money.  If they truly wanted to honor the Veteran, especially those that did not return home, they would close their business for the day. So, as far as the ol’ Chief is concerned, this holiday is [...]

Some Things Never Change

I am currently reading Philip Dray’s There Is Power In A Union. I am going to quote a parenthetical expression showing how some things never change. From the May 1, 1920 supposed May Day radical uprising. But when not a single incident or disturbance was reported anywhere in the country, the press, so long complicit [...]

W O W

Is this a Republican who is responsible or just the WSJ funnun’ with us? As the debate rages over China’s trade and currencies policies, the 68-year-old Bloomberg, now in his third term as mayor of New York, was tough on China’s critics in the U.S. [ snip ] “I think in America, we’ve got to [...]