Surrender Your Bowling Shoes

Fashioning a New Path DeLong, Krugman and Stiglitz my touchstones all have been posting on free trade. Labors circumstances have been damaged. The economists penciled out positive economic growth, but none penciled in trade negotiators ripping labor a new one. I got people in my life, avid both-sides types, infinitely reminding me that Labor Unions […]

Strumming the Heartstrings

Here is Where the Tractors are Fixed at Schnepf Farm I have been coming out to Schnepf Farm’s Pumpkin and Chili Party since 2000. It is located in the town of Queen Creek, Arizona. You are on the southeastern edge of the Valley of the Sun by the time you arrive here. The Valley […]

The Great Tony Benn Hits it Out of the Park

Click Right Here and Enter into the Truth of the Matter Tony Benn gives a stem winder from over on the other side of the pond. Now 83 in ten minutes time he crushes it. The British lilt in the voice and the humanity of his cause ooze from this talk. Our work is […]

The Empty Vessel

Democracy is an empty vessel. The blanks must be filled in. Want to slow or stop immigration? Do you want low taxes, less regulation and globalize manufacturing and trade? Perhaps more home schooling and charter schools and scrap universities altogether and simply ramp up vocational career schooling. The stock markets of the world are a […]

It Ain’t Over Till the Fat Canary Starts Sizzling…

Setting Sail for a Better Future Let’s head out from here where sanity prevails. First, we have a global manmade climate crisis. Got that? Let’s get our priorities right. Wake up! Next up is worldwide population levels continuing to expand while we wreak havoc upon the support system all these new lives will need if […]

Pass the Beer Nuts… Or How I Learned to Love the End

The Mayan People as Example Our globalized interconnected world was sold as a cure all for every kind of inefficiency of free enterprise. Free markets were going to spread democracy to every corner of the earth. Something went wrong. I know it, you know it; we all know that something is wrong. We are simply […]

How to Not Write Anything Brilliantly

We go to busking great Tim Motley enjoying his summer in Melbourne for this: “I try to sit down with my morning coffee around noon.” It usually happens first thing,” Dan Looker explains, “when the previous evening’s alcohol and the morning coffee meet in a front.” That’s some kind of weather pattern. The well washed […]

Academy Awards an Oligarchic Pie in Face

Oligarchic Nightmare Goes All Hollywood That pesky liberal agenda featured on the Academy Awards was a bit of a thumb in the eye to many people not sympathetic to such an agenda. These are the issues being systematically blocked by a do nothing Congress. Voting rights, equal pay for women, spying and immigration reform come […]

Extinction Event Bribery Style

Monument to Civilization, Stratosphere “Why are you picking a fight with the Chamber?” “Just standing my ground.” Keefe said. “We usually go around him instead of through him.” “Well, it’s a new day for Meadowhawk,” Fletcher said. Gallup that fabulous polling organization that quantifies what we already know has confirmed what we already knew: our […]

The Comedy that Will Not Be Televised

Sharp Wit and Bullet Holes “And so capitalism being what it is jumps into action. These men of free enterprise build resorts. And the resorts, they’re not just for people that are in love, they are for people who might find someone to pretend that they are in love with.” I went into the kitchen […]