Every weekend we attack the boxes and attempt to unpack a little more. But moving from a large house in the middle of nowhere to a small apt in the city entails abandoning most of your belongings. especially when you own at least one or more of everything in existence. You can’t think of a…
Current Events
The Politically Incorrect Generation — White Straight Non-Jewish Middle Aged Male Confused Lonely and Lost
So “they” as a singular personal pronoun to refer to people who don’t identify as either male or female, we’re calling them non-binary at the moment, was added to Webster’s dictionary this week. Not thst that matters much. The OED is still where it’s at. As any proper English Major will gladly tell you. Webster’s…
What the United States Government Doesn’t Say About Iran
Just did a refresher study on the exile and last year of the (second) shah of Iran. Was specifically interested in it’s effects on U.S. relations and global stability then and now. As we already know, Great Britain and the the United States through the CIA with a little help from France perpetrate a coup…
Remembering September 11th Eighteen Years Later
When it first happened I was at a spanish language school for a semester down in Costa Rica. With a bunch of mainly Europeans. We watched it happening live on the news like everyone. The Euros immediately jumped at the chance to make comments like “serves them right” or “it was only a matter of…
A President Should Be Presidential – On China Trade War and the Federal Reserve
REALITY CHECK: While many (including myself) agree with the US president’s stance on China Trade, specifically the need to stop forced technology transfers and IP theft (the trade imbalance is not actually an issue; certainly not one that can be or ever has been solved through a race to the bottom tariff war. Trade imbalances…
The Most Effective Manner Of Democratic Self Governance
On a recent post on social media about US president Donald Trump one could see 376 Comments. Almost all passionately and harshly bickering with each other over their ever widening partisan divide. 376 Comments?!? That’s a lot of time, attention and energy. All so valuable. Perhaps an assessment of how we are collectively allocating our…
Celebrating 50 Years of America’s First Landing On the Moon?
One can read the official history of America’s alleged six (6) manned moon landings here at History.com. Here is a decent article with some background about debunking “fake moon landing” conspiracy theories, again from History.com. Bare in mind, this is extremely mainstream surface data and opinion. Background research only.
Existential Dread
Earlier today a friend and I were conversing over the phone. Trotsky, You remember him. From the old days, when I used to post in the Diaries almost daily. Yeah we’re still getting on. He’s a brother. Still far left of the farthest left. A lot of times I just let him call and vent….
Making Sense of the First Democratic Debates – Proposals and Policies – Part 1
Before we dive in to the specific platforms and policies that we heard proposed in the first Democratic Debates over the last two nights, let us address a few things that may have been left out or only alluded to in the last piece I wrote about the candidates yesterday [Read that here if you…
Making Sense of the First Democratic Debates – Proposals and Policies – Part 2
[This is Part 2 of a two-part post on this subject. Part 1 can be read here.] Some Thoughts On Proposed Democratic Platform Policies Let’s quickly explore some of the platforms and policies that we heard proposed in the last few days by the various candidates for the democratic presidential nominee. It should make for…