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This Will Get More Comic Before it Gets Pitiful

https://nypost.com/2022/12/13/sam-bankman-fried-tells-court-he-plans-to-fight-extradition/ Sam was denied cash bail after broaching the subjects of is vegan diet and his ADD diagnosis to the Bahamian Magistrate. Bad news, pal of mine: this ain’t your Montessori kindergarten. There are no cruelty-free graham crackers or any fair-trade apple juice coming your way. Just for the record: The Post mentioned that heContinue reading “This Will Get More Comic Before it Gets Pitiful”

Get your stopwatches ready…

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-63950962 I am taking bets on how long it will take the fossil fuel industry, its investors, and its clients to invent a ‘sky is falling” WARNING about fusion energy. My money is on the Sunday morning interview shows 18 December, 2022, for the record. Email your bets.

Waiting….

I’m buzzing with anticipation for the outcome of Kari Lake’s lawsuit. She is demanding that election officials change the outcome of midterms so that she WINS! If she triumphs, it’ll be the green light for me to go ahead with my lawsuit against MGM casinos: I will DEMAND that they change my last poker handContinue reading “Waiting….”

Our Doom: Just An Academic Subject Now

This is not meant as a satyrical piece. I just think that the backgrounds from Doom did an admirable job at illustrating the landscape of post apocalyptic Earth. For starters, I looked at the wiki for “Motor Vehicles,” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle#Comparison_by_regions). It indicates that there were 1,083,528,000 car registrations world wide. Of these registrations, about 16. millionContinue reading “Our Doom: Just An Academic Subject Now”

I Suppose It’s Just Me…

…but shouldn’t 100% of the Republican Party condemn Trump’s explicit call for termination of the Constitution (https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/03/politics/trump-constitution-truth-social/index.html)? And if the party is incapable of such an obviously decent reaction to a call from a presidential candidate to dissolve the key document on which U.S. government is based, shouldn’t the Democratic party be trumpeting Republicans’ moralContinue reading “I Suppose It’s Just Me…”

Are We Coming to Our Collective Senses?

What I have always found so frustrating about the rise of Trumpism is not that he was such a revoltingly bigoted and ignorant grifter, but that he had so many mindless followers who were praying for him to shoot someone on Fifth Avenue so that they could ignore it. It appears, mercifully, that the crestContinue reading “Are We Coming to Our Collective Senses?”

Apolitically Speaking: the Concept of a M*A*S*H Reboot

This TV show originally dropped when I was in first grade and it ended when I was a junior in high school. I started watching it regularly when it was in syndication and I watched the 1983 finale, along with enough viewers to make it the most watched scripted television broadcast in history for theContinue reading “Apolitically Speaking: the Concept of a M*A*S*H Reboot”

Not Exactly Shocked Over Here

For the 1000th time: Economic theory is just that. It is theory. As my macroeconomics professor once intoned, economists usually conceive people as little economic beings, maximizing their utility and doing little else. “Reality,” as another prof said, is a “special case.” Globalization was a terrific theory. If it’s cheaper to manufacture in China, forContinue reading “Not Exactly Shocked Over Here”

Me? I live in the United States of Oceania

With a rightist billionaire taking over CNN, and Florida and Texas trying to get rid of investment funds that don’t buy fossil fuel stock (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-25/esg-pros-say-republican-anti-woke-bashing-hurts-regular-savers ), western U.S. states crossing their arms like there is no water crisis, and red-state neighbors thinking they have a right to know why someone visited an abortion-legal state, it’sContinue reading “Me? I live in the United States of Oceania”