It was around midnight when I penned my previous post on Jim Kunstler's latest article - : Going Full Whig yesterday. It may not be surprising therefore, that I did not possess the mental acuity at that late hour to fully take in what he was saying. So, here I am, back again, less than... Continue Reading →
Scrofula Fever
"Let's Make America Great Again", says Trump. "America never stopped being great", says Hilly Billy Clinton. Kunstler says (and I guess that is why I love him so much): "I guess she’s been traveling around the strip-mall wastelands of Carolina failing to notice the carnage that lays upon this land like a mortal scrofula. America... Continue Reading →
China’s Credit Rating Reduced To Negative
I'm not sure if this action by Moody's as reported on RT is a beat-up or not. I guess it is intended to signal that China is in trouble. Is that really the case? Photo credit: A view of the city skyline from the Zhongfu Building at night in Beijing © Jason Lee / Reuters... Continue Reading →
Un-Politically Correct
Just so everyone knows, it appears that my personal views place me in the region of those who are Leftist Libertarians. Whatever that means. Last time I did this, which was a year or few ago, I was a little more towards the centre than now. I guess my views are still firming, or maybe... Continue Reading →
♪♫ It’s Only Make-Believe ♫♪
This: Scaling a $9.5 Trillion Debt Wall may just be the story of the year. Or maybe the background to the story of the year, which hasn't yet broken. Photo credit: JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Image We are attempting to live in a make-believe world, where debts become assets and assets don't have to be marked... Continue Reading →
The ‘R’ Word Is Being Used
Ok, he is a libertarian, which in itself is not necessarily a bad thing, apart from all the other things that go along with it, but as I have said before - he is the only American politician who does tend to say some of the right things. Everyone already knows that America is already... Continue Reading →
“This is not a moment of crisis”
Photo of Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew: AP Images "This is not a moment of crisis". Isn't that what the Captain of the Titanic also said, as the iceberg appeared out of the fog? So, if it is not a moment of crisis, is it then an "Oh shit, moment"? I'm not sure the G20 participants... Continue Reading →
“The Decline and Fall of Hillary Clinton”
There are less than a handful of weekly blogs that I regularly follow for the wisdom and wit that I perceive in their writings. This post, unlike my previous one which was a day or two late in catching up with the latest offering from one of those blogs, comes only hours after the latest... Continue Reading →
“Between the Loathsome and the Unspeakable”
Sometimes life just gets so busy, even for someone who has nowhere to go or be at any particular time (that would be me of course). So busy that important things get missed sometimes. And so it was, that I came to miss this week's fine word picture weekly episode from Jim Kunstler's Clusterfuck Nation... Continue Reading →
Not Something Else 