Confessions of a Climate Change Comedy Screenwriter
You Win a Baby Blue White Leather Interior Cadillac Rain is the sworn enemy of a street performer. Cold wind and ice come in second with unbearable high humidity and heatwaves next. The not too hot, not too cold is supportive of such things as solvency. It is the shoe that is always about to […]
Read More March 14, 2018 Weather RelatedYOU ARE LOOKING AT A FAIR TRADER I’m going after James Kitfield today. He is a storied reporter, beltway veteran, and quintessential centrist. He holds all sorts of views I have no quarrel with, but on trade he’s off by a Moon shot, perhaps a crash landing on Mars. Look, the new world order, the […]
Read More Fair/Free Trade Con ArtistryFashioning 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 […]
Read More Surrender Your Bowling ShoesNorm Ornstein describes the partisanship to have metastasized into tribal warfare. Tribalism is about being a member of a group that you are above all else loyal to. Privatization, sending programs back to the states, rejection of spending on infrastructure, no new taxes, lower old taxes, and dismantle social welfare programs. That’s the village they […]
Read More Pedal to the Metal with A Thousand ClownsHere 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 […]
Read More Strumming the HeartstringsDemocracy 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 […]
Read More The Empty VesselThe Most Beautiful Places in the World Timing is everything. A good location doesn’t hurt. But, it’s the intangibles that will get you. “To be completely honest, although I love living in the city, it’s not my favorite place to perform.” What? “It seems to have an overly-politically-correctness vibe.” Really? So, we haven’t changed; they […]
Read More How Sweet It IsOligarchic 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 […]
Read More Academy Awards an Oligarchic Pie in FaceThe owl soared across the street to the limb of a cottonwood. The animal perched, balancing on one foot, with Mr. Garrett Harwood’s hat clasped and dangling in her clutches in the other. Hot Spring Honeymoon Owl attacks joggers and steals their hats… Headline from The Guardian, Reuters in Portland, Oregon I concocted a confrontation […]
Read More Hat Snatching Owl’s and Brawling Burro Truths…Fire the Boat Up… We’re Coming For Them… It is all connected. Let’s review. Climate change is real and carbon dioxide buildup in the atmosphere is the cause of the problem. Income inequality is real and uber wealthy titans of industry and finance have rigged capitalism and now literally spray money to regulators and politicians […]
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