The Book of Doomed
Here’s your fair and balanced: Thomas Jefferson, hero of the modern conservatives: Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government. If once they [the people] become...
View ArticleDoomedsday!
I wonder what Eisenhower would make of today’s US, with a military grown from 3.5 million people to 5 million. The western nations face less of a threat to their integrity and security than ever in...
View ArticleDoomed Enough?
The American middle-class: pretty much dead, dead, dead. So I was wrong. I thought as the hardships trickled up from the poor into the middle class, so would the will to address them. I figured that if...
View ArticleTHIS BLOG HAS MOVED
Presently relocated to: http://bookofdoomed.tumblr.com/ I am, for the moment, jazzed. Tumblr is a little easy for us unfocused sufferers of ADD. Join me there!
View ArticleCage Match! Cablevision vs. Verizon FIOS
Haven’t had 24/7 internet from Cablevison in months. Then again, this is a company that has abused a monopoly bought by corrupting politicians since the first day of business. A company free to abuse...
View ArticleSweet Fix
So the phone battery starts dying Sunday morning. Only holds charge for five hours or so. First place I go to can’t quite do anything on the spot, so go to Grand Central Terminal Apple Store Genius...
View ArticleMy Favorite Recent Comic
Avenging Spidey-Man 9. Erotic in the Freudian sense in that it’s just a beautifully life-affirming job. So well done on every single level. Highly recommended. No; I can’t recommend it highly enough....
View ArticleDon’t this Say it All
Fred Hickey in Barron’s: “I also own government bonds in New Zealand and Canada. They are a play on natural resources, but mostly on better-run governments.”
View ArticleDon’t this Say it All Too
Marc Faber in the 13 June 2011 Barron’s: “The world has a dual economy. In the economy of the super-rich, Bentleys and Rolls Royces and Ferraris and Porsches sit in front of fancy hotels. Quantitative...
View ArticleOut of My Mind: 9 August 2016
I’m back for a test ride, to see how much this platform’s improved since I’ve been gone. Our next president At a rally in Detroit, Donald Trump said “titties” while attempting to say “cities.” I...
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