November 2017 archive

The CBO Score

The reason I hate doing pieces like this is I feel compelled to revisit the counter-intuitive ways that money is not what you think it is and deficits and debts don’t really matter but what you buy does. Money is an artificial construct that facilitates economic transactions. That’s it. It’s only other value is as …

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Bread Substitute And Icky Wax Part 2

Look, this metaphor may be new to my writing but I’ve shared it in real life for years (mostly to uncomprehending stares, you creep me out folks, at least pretend to understand and humor me that way, I got it first time). Roy Moore is a sexual predator posing as a Christian. He’s no different …

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Pondering the Pundits

Pondering the Pundits” is an Open Thread. It is a selection of editorials and opinions from> around the news medium and the internet blogs. The intent is to provide a forum for your reactions and opinions, not just to the opinions presented, but to what ever you find important. Thanks to ek hornbeck, click on …

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The Breakfast Club (Race Among the Ruins)

Welcome to The Breakfast Club! We’re a disorganized group of rebel lefties who hang out and chat if and when we’re not too hungover we’ve been bailed out we’re not too exhausted from last night’s (CENSORED) the caffeine kicks in. Join us every weekday morning at 9am (ET) and weekend morning at 10:00am (ET) (or …

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Rant of the Week: Seth Meyers – Thanksgiving Night Monologue

The Dead Pool

I talked this morning about sports and while I find them intermittently amusing they are mostly convenient excuses to nap and non-threatening topics of conversation (“How ’bout them Mets?”). The fact is that sports as mass touchstones of common culture are in an inevitable and irreversible state of decline, one has only to look at …

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The Breakfast Club (Wild Ones)

Welcome to The Breakfast Club! We’re a disorganized group of rebel lefties who hang out and chat if and when we’re not too hungover we’ve been bailed out we’re not too exhausted from last night’s (CENSORED) the caffeine kicks in. Join us every weekday morning at 9am (ET) and weekend morning at 10:30am (ET) to …

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Pondering the Pundits: Sunday Preview Edition

“Pondering the Pundits” is an Open Thread. It is a selection of editorials and opinions from around the news medium and the internet blogs. The intent is to provide a forum for your reactions and opinions, not just to the opinions presented, but to what ever you find important. On Sunday mornings we present a …

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Formula One 2017: حلبة مرسى ياس

That would be Yas Marina and from a meta standpoint I’m curious if the Arabic will display correctly, otherwise there’s not much drama in this race. I suppose technically if Vettel has a DNF and Bottas finishes first he could steal a season second in the Driver’s Championship. Do I expect this will happen? No. …

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A Chilly Thanksgiving?

Mine was fine. No permanent damage. In some places it may have been a bit more… frosty. The shrinking profile of Jared Kushner By Ashley Parker, Washington Post November 25 His still-evolving role in the investigations of Russian election interference and possible obstruction of justice also make him a potential risk to President Trump, even …

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