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The Neo Liberal Con

tl;dr? Let me explain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up. Neo Liberalist Economics is a bunch of rattle shaking Shamen motivated by faith and greed. There is no evidence at all that it benefits any except the very wealthiest. There is considerable evidence that it is destructive of society as a whole, …

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Depression Olympics

Not A Rant (Bigger Than Watergate)

Velshi and Moore Trump Is Beginning to Lose His Grip By Stanley B. Greenberg, The New York Times Nov. 17, 2018 Because the votes were counted so slowly across the country, we were also slow to realize that Democrats had won the national congressional vote by a margin greater than that of the Tea Party …

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Not Done Catching Up

I’m really surprised at the fact that both Seth and Stephen were all live last week. I kind of missed most of it as I was watching other things, but YouTube is good like that. IKEA has declared war on Stockmanns over sweeping forest broom tariffs! Honey, I suppressed myself! Traitor Pence

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Metal DJing was never particularly lucrative for me. Most of the gigs were calculated to advance my buddy’s political career (I never wanted to be capo di tutti, I wanted to be consigliere), if they paid cash it went out the door faster than it came in on equipment and new music, and the rest …

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A Seth Meyers’ Family Thanksgiving

Big Balloon Parade Back In My Day Very Competitive Newlywed Game Embarrassing Your Children (Part 1) Embarrassing Your Children (Part 2) Big Grandparenting Mistake Thankful

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Ugh. After last week’s dumpster dive I need some music that’s good for my head. Leave It – Yes Spirit In The Sky – Doctor and the Medics Not Norman Greenbaum, this 1986 version was #1 in the UK Singles charts. I haven’t gone soft. It’s deeply sarcastic. Astradyne – Ultravox

Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.

Look, it’s been 44 years since it’s release so I trust I’m not “spoiling” things (Ilsa flies off with Victor and Blaine and Renault disappear into the fog while La Marseillaise swells in the background). The big reveal in Chinatown is that Katherine is Evelyn’s sister and her daughter. Ok, that says something about how …

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Catching Up

Melania It Just Doesn’t Matter Either one of them, other than the deep seated hypocrisy of Republicans. “Lock Her Up!” Eat Your Vegetables Chicken “I bet you’d be on my side if I had killed a journalist”

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Was Windows Vista THAT bad? Yes, yes it was. For me the point of contention was the lack of backward compatibility in both hardware and software. What made 7 shine by comparison (and still shine, it’s what I use) is by the time it came along truly compatible hardware had come down to a reasonable …

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