Category Archives: America 2012
Bubble, Bubble, Oil & Trouble…
From the Washington Times… Jacqueline Michel, a geological chemist who is coordinating the federal assessment of damages to the shores of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida, says the impact of the oil spill has been “much, much less” than … Continue reading
Bear Markets & Chicken Entrails
Whassup? No much, it’s mostly what’s down. There’s a whole herd of talking heads out there trying to convince us that the Golden Years of uber-prosperity are just around the corner. Fortunately Algore’s invention of the internet affords us the … Continue reading
Dependence Day: the Sunday Not-So-Funnies
When you spend more than you make you go into debt. Congress has been spending more than Americans make for 25 years now, spending on foolish entitlements for the sole purpose of staying in office. They have taken your money … Continue reading
The VAT (bring your own Vaseline)
America is in a severe recession, if not the early stages of a difficult and prolonged depression. Home prices have cratered, unemployment figures are the worst in many years, California is technically bankrupt. What remains of our falling affluent soufflé … Continue reading
The Zimbabawe Way: Inflation & the Limits of Government
Here’s something nobody is going to tell you. An article was printed in the WSJ in May… History has consistently demonstrated that economies of every stripe, market economies or centrally planned economies, cannot generate more than one fifth of their … Continue reading
Liberal Arts Majors and the Adults Who Lie To Them
All you freshly minted Liberal Arts majors with degrees in such in-demand fields as Fourteenth Century French Literature – nobody cares about your steenkin’ degree! This 30 minute podcast from Numbnuts Progessive Radio features recent grads calling in with the … Continue reading
The South, Texas & the end of the American Idyll
About eight weeks ago economist and commentator Walter Williams, a man I respect most highly for his constant clarity and vision, wrote this. I don’t usually publish other’s work in toto but this is just too damn good to abridge. … Continue reading
American Despot
June 2006… “The transition from unitary executive to dictator – conservative, benevolent or otherwise – will not happen in the waning months of the current administration, so uniquely manifested by America’s First Triumvirate of George Bush, Dick Cheney and, until … Continue reading
The Rider On The Red Horse: Is A Big War Coming?
“When the Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” Then another horse came out, a fiery red one. Its rider was given power to take peace from the earth and to make men slay … Continue reading