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The “Good” War

It is certainly unpatriotic to suggest that our “exceptional” Nation would condone and encourage the sexual abuse of children by our noble partners in the struggle against Terrorist Extremism just as it would be to imply that we would deliberately bomb Hospitals, First Responders, and Civilians or support a systematic campaign by our upstanding and …

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This isn’t Wizard Tiddlywinks at Hogwarts

If you search Google News for Jeremy Corbin today you’ll find that J.K. Rowling can’t sleep nights over the prospect of the impending Corbyn romp over Owen Smith in the Labour Leadership election (about which more in a moment). Indeed ‘Corbyn is no Dumbledore’ and- One day in the far distant future we’ll look back …

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Rattle Shaking Shamen

Look, you will never, ever hear from me that Economics is any more a “science” than the obeah divination practiced by the late lamented Ms. Cleo (Youree Dell Harris of Los Angeles California who left the Seattle stage after her failed production of Supper Club Cafe). Still there are some Theories that are generally accepted …

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Taking a Bite out of Apple

Full disclosure- I have a mint in box Apple ][c that I’ve never used and somewhere in a pile of pieces a Romar ][ clone that I used to develop an Applesloth Basic (much faster using Bill Gate’s compiler) translation of an Insurance Rating program originally written for a Radio Shack Trash-80. It was my …

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Italeave!

If you’ve been following the artificial currency crisis fueled by the Austerian impulse of the European Union’s Neoliberal bureaucrats under the economic domination of German Banks it should be obvious that barring some miracle the common European Currency (the Euro) is doomed to destruction. Unfortunately for some of the starry-eyed idealists (or cynical apparatchiks, take …

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Communism on the March!

(Part 42, wherein we once again attack the practice of Mega-Coroprations expropriating Public Assets and marketing them for their own profit.) Comerades! Our glorious Socialist Revolution once again advances against Capitalist Imperialism under the banner of our Trotskyite leader, Jeremy Corbyn! His Radical Plan to actually make Public Scientific Research… well, Public will surely bring …

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The Great Wall (Of Ice)

I feel somewhat compelled to be specific. Not the big pile of masonry in the Western part of China that you can see from Space. Not the huuge beautiful one on the Southern border of the United States that the Mexicans are going to pay for. Nope, the every bit as ambitious and likely to …

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The Zombie Deals- TTIP and TPP

The reason I call them Zombie Deals is that by all accounts, they’re dead Jim dead! On the other hand it doesn’t pay to underestimate the power of the D.C. Neoliberal Consensus to resurrect incredibly bad ideas that benefit only their Billionaire Paymasters and International Mega-Corporations. How many times does the Debt/Deficit Hawk Grand Bargain …

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To Anacreon In Heaven

As you know I think Throwball an exceptionally stupid sport played by brain and steroid damaged people who without their not as remunerative as you might think contracts would find gainful employment as muggers and Mob enforcers. The fans are not much better though marginally more civilized than the typical denizens of the parking lots …

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Social Media?

What is that? Things like Facebook and Twitter. (Blank stare) You post things on it like family newsletters and pictures of your pets. And you chat. Chat? Type messages to your friends. Like a phone call? Exactly! What an enormous waste of time. Why You Should Be Concerned About the DHS Plan to Collect Social …

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