Confessions of a Climate Change Comedy Screenwriter
Principled people can disagree about a lot of things, casting a vote not to raise the debt ceiling is not one of them. I don’t like the deal, but I don’t like defaulting on the national debt worse. Bernie, Warren and AOC are not on the same principled page over the debt and think they’ve […]
Read More Sausage Along the PotomacMy two dogs come visit, they were both nothing but ball chasers.
Read More Cassavetes CrossroadsYOU 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 ArtistrySetting 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 […]
Read More It Ain’t Over Till the Fat Canary Starts Sizzling…More Off the Cuff Links… We take you to the streets of London where students are marching for, “No tuition fees! No education cuts! No debt!” Let’s go to Milwaukee where what passes for progress we have this pathetic excuse for policy being implemented. Sorry folks we can’t get to the new economy everyone is talking […]
Read More End Stupid Stop Stubborn“Your wallets gone, passport is missing and you’ve just received a note from the consulate. There is nothing they can do. You will have to live with your new tattoo and the sex change operation.” Send in the clowns… they’re already here… Working today on the stupid… I try not to do stupid, but […]
Read More Stupid, Dumb and Dunderheaded“Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business
interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens
and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence.”
From the Comedy Hot Spring Honeymoon my latest novel…. “I happen to find something new in the book of bachelor wisdom. I found there comes a point in life when the best thing a man can do is the thing he promised himself he never would.”
Read More Hot Spring HoneymoonTransnational capital has been able to break free of nation-state constraints to accumulation beyond the previous epoch, and with it, to shift the correlation of class and social forces worldwide sharply in its favour – and to undercut the strength of popular and working class movements around the world, in the wake of the global […]
Read More Playing Free and Lose with Fact and Opinion….Wee…………..“Of course the irremediable bitterness in Picasso’s soul, the power of the inner sanction he felt later in life to wound and humiliate others, had to come in part out of the paradox that the paintings that brought him the greatest sums were precisely the works which had cost him the most miserable days of […]
Read More Pull the Curtain Back and Take a Good Look