2017-11-21 14:30
This is "Eclipse" built in 2009 for Roman Abromovich, a Russian oligarch and apparently an associate, or associate wannabe of our pretend president. Perhaps it's just that Trump owes him hal… Read More
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2017-10-25 13:49
Public attention, at least amongst those of us who identify with what one loosely calls "the Left" sometimes like a game of spin the bottle. One day it's rampage shooting, the next day it's… Read More
2017-10-23 17:24
"By Diverse means we arrive at the same end." Thus begin the essays of Michel de Montaigne.It's both hopeful and ominous and also a warning against the intolerance that seeps through the cap… Read More
2017-10-21 19:38
In the 18th century, the first self-operating Atmospheric engine was invented, according to legend, by an employee who got tired of sitting there turning valves to make the piston on a… Read More
2017-10-18 13:52
"I'd hate to think there's a national discussion going on that I'm not part of" says the man in pajamas with a laptop, in bed next to his sleepy wife. It's a cartoon in the New Yorker b… Read More
2017-10-03 13:53
Expecting yet another round of amorphous generalities and off-the-shelf solutions to the problem of determining in advance just which solid citizen will become a psychotic citizen, I tuned i… Read More
2017-07-24 17:39
Alex Jones and Michael Savage - two Gentlemen of Bologna - or do we pronounce it Baloney? They're both talking about civil war and not the one you're thinking of. And though both have… Read More
2017-05-27 13:40
You don't generalize from small samples as anyone should be willing to confirm -- but not everyone does. Our president, for instance loves to make it look like our biggest crime problem is t… Read More
2017-05-16 12:44
"I did it and I'm glad," a high school friend used to say as an act of high school bravado against the unsympathetic faculty attitude toward our antics. We long since grew up and perha… Read More
2017-05-13 17:32
"Be totally unafraid to challenge entrenched interests and failed power structures,"said Trump to graduating students at a university that shares the dubious provenance of many other things… Read More
2017-05-12 14:22
But it's speeding up fast!Frankly I thought it would take longer, but the Comey firing and Lester Holt's interview have suddenly accelerated the disintegration of Donald J. Trump.It has gain… Read More
2017-05-02 14:00
Sarah Palin could probably smell Trump's new tower in the Philippines all the way from Alaska if it weren't for all the rotting carcasses of bear cubs and wolf puppies littering her place in… Read More
2017-04-16 19:21
I can't remember who said it on MSNBC this morning, but it's been bothering me all day. To paraphrase: "The entertainment value of Donald Trump's Circus is as dangerous as the policies… Read More
2017-03-22 20:06
It was ages ago, during the Gore Vs Bush contest that Al Gore quoted some figure - lets say it was 4.5%. After the debate the Bush people sprang up to tell us "Gore Lied! He Lied" the figure… Read More
2017-03-06 19:10
Certum est, quia impossibile.Tertullian - De Carne ChristiIt's been too easy to hope, to tempting to giggle as the President makes a bloody fool of himself with tantrums and… Read More
2017-03-01 14:27
They jump up, they sit down. They jump up again, blank expressions on their face as though listening intensely to instructions or some inaudible tune. Marionettes in dark suits, they jump up… Read More
2017-02-11 20:08
Not so long ago in a neglected 1974 Ford Galaxie not so far away and parked toward the back of Donny’s Mira-Lago motors in Pahokee, Florida, Donald Trumbow finished off the last roach… Read More
2016-12-26 14:51
"Merry Christmas to all!" Blurts the RNC official Christmas message. and the expanding ripples of unanswered questions expand outward. Is this the kind of message that an inclusive political… Read More
2016-12-21 15:49
We're just starting to see some lip service paid to the cornucopia of fake news, libel and fraud that we call social media. The first I encountered this morning was a picture of a table in t… Read More
2016-11-23 14:42
Memory is a funny thing when it applies to the world of politics. I wonder how many remember Dick Cheney's statement that the actions of a president are ipso facto legal. That would so… Read More
2016-11-09 12:32
Remember the scene where the scrawny Somalian kid says to Captain Phillips: "I'm the Captain now?" I think you will. I think you will remember it well. We're all hostages now and as for all… Read More
2016-11-06 19:29
Huffington Post has never seemed an extremist publication, except perhaps to extremists, but today's article about the historic drop in the markets coincident with the recent rise of Trump's… Read More
2016-11-04 19:45
Fuck it all. I'm done. And no it's not just because the Republicans have instigated an idiot revolution, a Biblical flood of lies, libels and treason, it's because there is no other si… Read More
2016-11-02 19:17
Hell is other people, said Jean-Paul Sartre. in No Exit, (Huis clos) and so is Democracy as I was reminded today in the New Yorker. A third of Americans can't name one branch of g… Read More
2016-11-02 13:48
I was a Cub Scout. I was a Boy Scout, I've considered myself to be an outdoorsman and I have a lot of pocket knives, many sheath knives and a few machetes/ I have knives I use for gard… Read More
2016-10-22 13:13
I can hardly condemn people for getting much if not most of their news from the Internet. It's efficient, you can read many sources quickly and you don't have to sit through all those TV com… Read More
2016-10-13 14:17
What are we so afraid of, we Americans? Everything it seems. Everything is too dangerous, nothing is nearly safe enough now that life is safer in America than it ever has been. We live… Read More
2016-10-10 19:04
It's evidently difficult for Americans to tell an unsupported assertion from a hypothesis based on evidence. That's more true than it ever has been because we have the Internet to support an… Read More
2016-10-08 13:45
Back when America was great, or at least when Humpty Trumpty suggests it was, America was about free trade and open borders, the business of America was business and laissez faire Capitalism… Read More
2016-10-02 14:31
There's no denying that this election has brought out the worst in all of us. Listening to man-on-the-street interviews with Trump supporters makes me want to run for the border: to some pla… Read More
2016-09-22 13:56
Viruses like HIV that have an extremely high mutation rate, like moving targets in general, are hard to fight. The same thing seems to be true of Donald Trump. Not only a m… Read More
2016-09-16 13:35
I think it's OK for me to call these interesting times. It may be that hackers with no intent to do so may allow historians to write a more accurate history of the 8 years of George Bush, th… Read More
2016-09-14 13:57
More e-mail hacks! It makes me wonder whether we should allow government officials to use e-mail at all. Nothing seems beyond the reach of hackers, government backed or independe… Read More
2016-09-13 18:57
A disaster. Obama's policies have been a dis-ASTER! says one millionaire to the other like some kind of a club password or secret society handshake. How so? I ask and just what policie… Read More
2016-09-10 15:09
Some have been tempted to cut Charles Krauthammer some slack of late, since he's decided to recognize the dangers of a Trump presidency, but he's still an asshole.The world disdains Barack O… Read More
2016-09-08 13:16
You watch them sitting there, some in VFW hats looking like aged Boy Scouts trying to sit through a lecture on Balbus-Hawley Instability without falling asleep or revealing total incomprehen… Read More
2016-09-05 14:39
I have no idea why Americans continue to look to athletes and entertainers for sanctification of their opinions, but it is amusing to watch the media try to make a big issue out of &nbs&hell…Read More
2016-09-03 16:44
Or at least he tried to and I mean do in the sense of screw. Who thinks that today's speech wasn't written by some staff member to mimic the rhetoric and cadence of a black preacher as the n… Read More
2016-09-03 13:37
Remember when we were falling all over ourselves to post a "Je Suis Charlie" picture somewhere? Of course we wanted to stand up for freedom, but since none of us had really heard of th… Read More
2016-09-02 14:20
A chicken in every pot, 40 acres and a mule -- political promises are the fabric of election year rhetoric. One might think "a taco truck on every corner" would be such a promise, but this i… Read More
2016-08-31 13:29
It's probably true that the liar Trump could shoot someone in cold blood at high noon and No one -- no Republican, that is, would drop their support for him. So It's silly to thin… Read More
2016-08-28 13:33
Everybody knows America used to be great -- greater than it is now, that is, but I wonder when that was and whether everyone would pick the same time of maximum greatness if asked. Nobody se… Read More
2016-08-26 15:19
Mornings like this I sit with a cup of coffee watching the crawl on Bloomberg TV as my finances improve. This morning I checked their website to see what Secretary Yellin had to say about th… Read More
2016-08-24 13:49
I hate to sound like one of those people who see patterns where there aren't any, but I've noticed that a battle of bullshit seems to be developing between Rush and Donald J. Donny is… Read More
2016-08-16 15:49
Well the Ukraine girls really knock me outThey leave the West behindAnd Moscow girls make me sing and shoutThat Georgia's always on my mind-The Beatles-OK, let me get this right: Russia is i… Read More
2016-08-16 13:26
You used to have to try to portray our current political civil war as the comic opera it is. You used to need some comedic talent, but like one of those Tesla or Google cars, it's all… Read More
2016-08-11 14:21
A large problem with activist groups is the resistance to information that's not part of the group's canon, coming from outside the group or that which casts doubt on its inerrancy. Maintena… Read More
2016-08-10 14:47
First thing again this morning I listen to Rebecca Negron telling us she's going to "punish" Washington for keeping the police from arresting "criminal aliens," something she is essentially… Read More
2016-08-07 12:43
looking at the latest crop of Hillaryhate TV commercials seems like a reprise of all those 15th and 16th century paintings I saw in Europe as a kid, the Jews with their twisted faces, mockin… Read More
2016-08-02 16:47
I wish I were a cartoonist. I have this cartoon in my head and can't get rid of it: look here at a huge Donald Trump in Arlington National Cemetery, pissing on a soldier's grave… Read More
2016-07-27 14:34
Sometimes I just don't know what to say. Lyin' Bill O'Reilly manages to lie even while telling the truth when he attempts to counter Michelle Obama's poignant statement that the White… Read More
2016-07-22 17:38
Another shooting incident at a Munich shopping center. 5 people stabbed on a train in Bavaria a few days ago. Terrorist attacks are almost a daily thing in Europe and far, far worse in the M… Read More
2016-07-21 12:39
One of the problems with American discourse having moved to the Internet and the cable news networks is that we rush to the circus ring making the most noise, and somehow there aren't… Read More
2016-07-21 12:25
Maybe the "hands up - Don't shoot" touring company should have waited to use that chant a bit longer, because the city of North Miami, Florida has acted out the scenario without needing to f… Read More
2016-07-20 14:11
It's so easy to poke fun at the Republicans for trying to make Melaniagate evaporate without a trace, whether it's quoting My Little Pony or just insisting it's a meaningless coincidence and… Read More
2016-07-19 21:05
Species dysphoria is a bitter, hopeless condition. No matter how much I know that my inner species doesn't match my outer appearance, I just can't live life as a dog. Not with two legs and n… Read More
2016-07-18 14:17
Baton Rouge. A few days ago, a word association test would have had me responding with Janis, but now it's more likely to be murder, cops, revenge and war: that Bellum omnium contra omn… Read More
2016-07-16 13:10
Lyin' Bill O'Reilly may have to share his liar's title with Lyin' Wayne, the former Fox News "Terrorism expert" may have been a perfect fit for the Fox Crew of liars and frauds, failed… Read More
2016-07-15 12:39
The death toll is way over 80 now, not quite up to the 130 killed last November but far worse than the January 2015 killing of 11 that had us writing je suis Charlie although we weren't much… Read More
2016-07-14 19:23
Trump has “never forgotten or forsaken the people who work with their hands,” trumpets Indiana Governor Mike Pence, hoping to advance to more power like some eager Red Guard, lit… Read More
2016-07-11 16:39
Perhaps nothing to do with the way we think is more demonstrated than the fact that we humans are nothing like rational beings. We're beings who use all sorts of gymnastics to justify our op… Read More
2016-07-07 14:07
None of this will surprise you if you've read my libertarian drivel before, but safety is going to be the end of us as a free nation. Well, not the concept of safety, but tha… Read More
2016-07-06 13:28
"Fluch ist auch ein Segen, Nacht ist auch eine Sonne," -Friedrich Nietzsche- Also Sprach Zarathustra One of the difficulties in searching for exoplanets is seeing the minuscu… Read More
2016-07-06 12:27
For those of you who know the International Radiotelegraph code or Morse as it's popularly known, The letters HI (or more often HIHI) has for a very long time been shorthand for… Read More
2016-06-30 14:20
"I'm self-funding my own campaign."— Donald Trump on Monday, February 1st, 2016 in a campaign rally in IowaI would promise to strangle the next person who told me Trump is th… Read More
2016-06-27 13:44
Makes me feel like I'm in grade school again and it's supposed to. Sitting there, hand in the air knowing the expected answer and hoping to be the first to yell out "GUNS!"Like so many of th… Read More
2016-06-25 13:39
Shocking to wake up and find you've lost enough to buy a nice house because some Brit Brats with nose rings and face tattoos want to return to chauvinist nationalism and don't understand or… Read More
2016-06-22 14:23
So what - you expected something different? If it's about guns, you vote no, plain and simple, and no thought required beyond thinking about how badly the NRA will punish you for giving a cr… Read More
2016-06-20 18:07
No, really, just keep calm. . . please. "The worst thing about American is GUNS!" I'm told, and if I disagree, I've been brainwashed by an organization I don't belong to or listen to a… Read More
2016-06-16 13:32
And while I'm on the subject of dishonest advertising, I saw an article just now claiming that thousands of scientists have proved Einstein wrong - again. How's that? Why… Read More
2016-06-15 13:43
I'm sure the mourning and weeping and candle lighting will go on for a while and I'm sure the finger pointing, panic mongering and political accusations of guilt will continue apace.I have t… Read More
2016-06-15 13:19
I've got to admit it's getting better (Better)A little better all the time (It can't get more worse)-the Beatles-Panic is big business. Hysteria is a moneymaker and the road to riches for th… Read More
2016-06-10 19:08
Seems like most politics these days ( and everything is politics) involves creating a bubble, a frame of reference that doesn't necessarily have a one to one relationship with the world as a… Read More
2016-06-08 17:18
Bernie Sanders has boasted“If, on November 8th of this year, Hillary Clinton is elected President, we will have only begun to fight,” Writes Andy Borowitz in the… Read More
2016-06-07 14:13
Researchers at the University of California are trying to develop a pig whose organs contain some human DNA which will make it possible to use those organs in humans without rejection. Is th… Read More
2016-06-03 13:33
Quite frankly, nobody is going to make America great again, at least not to any universal agreement. Nor is it really possible to define the word. That's why it makes such a catchy campaign… Read More
2016-06-02 14:26
Many scholarly articles suggest a link between the easily disgusted and the chronic Republican voter. Reading that Donald finds windmills disgusting makes me wonder just how extreme th… Read More
2016-06-01 13:22
I'm sure the hope that those "smaller government" patriots will get their minds and their intrusive policies out of the toilet is entirely vain, but I read this morning that the plight… Read More
2016-05-30 14:33
There ain't no drought in CaliforniaThere ain't no flames in HellThe snow don't fall in North DakotaHis hair is free of gel.The rain it runs into the seaBecause of Uncle SamIt's all about so… Read More
2016-05-30 13:19
Greed: everyone's talking about it, but as with much of what remains of our uncommon language, everyone has his own definition and of course that's necessary, because everyone in his way, or… Read More
2016-05-22 18:56
What does it feel like to be old? Of course that's far too complex a question to have a simple answer, but one of the reminders of that thing you try to forget is that so many people a… Read More
2016-05-22 16:02
Or Bullslinger: take your pickHe's a long time member and so are his "boys" Donald Trump told the NRA. I have no idea if that's true or whether his girls are duck hunters. I do kn… Read More
2016-05-18 14:22
By now I'm used to the trolls. I've been blogging for a long time but of late the most viciously personal ad hominem has come, not from the Republican Right but from the Bernie Boys. I block… Read More
2016-05-14 18:20
So Trumpty Dumpty says it wasn't him on the phone posing as a spokesman. He says his tax returns are nobody's business either.I hear his campaign is coming out with a song:It ain't me, it ai… Read More
2016-05-13 19:11
"But now the big banks are back in the party, pushing for Hillary Clinton to beat Donald Trump." Writes Bill Moyers and if you're like most people, seeking signs and marshaling fa… Read More
2016-04-30 12:29
One of the contributing factors in the difficulty (I almost wrote impossibility) of that "discussion" about race in America we're constantly told we need to have is that victims in Ame… Read More
2016-04-28 14:01
" No nation ought to be without a debt."-From Common Sense by Thomas Paine-But everyone today is an Economist and everyone knows debt is bad and the secret to good government is parsimony. … Read More
2016-04-27 15:09
Are these the best or worst of times? Probably the answer is yes, but I have to argue that they are the craziest of times. Is it a symptom of this national insanity that an… Read More
2016-04-26 17:11
Seek, and ye shall find, it says in the Gospels, much to the cynical amusement of those looking for things they never seem to attain, or acquire. If it's freedom you're seeking, your not goi… Read More
2016-04-22 16:54
It's good to be reminded in these trying times, that American politicians don't have a monopoly or a patent on bigotry, ignorance and plain old stupidity, much less the diplomatic inco… Read More
2016-04-21 18:05
Sure it's time for a change. I've been commenting for years that other countries have artists, authors, poets and scholars on their money while we have government officials, symbols of… Read More
2016-04-15 15:29
I was watching Samantha Bee gyrating on my TV the other night, dressed an a homemade Eagle costume festooned with plastic guns and made to resemble an NRA mascot. It was one of those Bones a… Read More
2016-04-11 13:56
I hate revolutions. They almost always make things worse because they rely on zealotry and anger and revenge. The angriest, the craziest and those with serious problems always wind up… Read More
2016-04-06 15:35
I think Bernie Sanders has a lot to be embarrassed about, despite another primary won, but I'm not sure that revealing his apparent lack of knowledge about just how he would retrieve a… Read More
2016-04-02 19:40
Everything in America is getting so scary - not more dangerous, but more scary. Parents who back in the 80's managed to fend for themselves are now hovering over their offspring now th… Read More
2016-03-28 14:12
We've all heard the joke about the statistician who drowned in a lake with an average depth of 4 inches and we've all heard the Mark Twain quote that he attributed to Benjamin Disraeli… Read More
2016-03-25 15:52
I don't feel safe in this world no more, I don't want to die in a nuclear war.I want to sail away to a distant shore and make like an apeman.-The Kinks-The allure of nature, the yearning to… Read More
2016-03-24 13:45
26 dead in Brussels, reads the sign. 26 dead in Newtown. It isn't something meant to inform us. Close the borders says the rubric. Get used to it says the counterpoint. Forget for the… Read More
2016-03-23 14:37
Fans of the Emmy winning HBO series VEEP may recall the slogan used on Julia Louis-Dreyfus' campaign bus "Continuity with Change." In our brave new world such things tend to creep off the… Read More
2016-03-22 14:52
"Everybody lies" said Hugh Laurie as House. Everything goes to shit, says the Second Law of Thermodynamics, or "entropy increases" which is the same thing without the smell. You can't… Read More
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