Joe Costello has decades experience in politics, energy, environment, and communications. Traveled and worked across the planet. Long a student of democracy, its demise, possible revitalization.
'Ey? Do we know any other fucking songs that we can do? The WSJ has a scoop, How One Big Private-Equity Fund Makes Its Numbers Incomprehensible. The headline is a little confusing. Someone could read it thinking one PE firm makes its numbers incomprehensible, but in reality it'
Life in the 21st century is reader supported, please subscribe and make life sustainable. SUBSCRIBE After 40 years of financial innovations, it's hard to be shocked by anything in the financial press, but FT has a piece, Why struggling companies are loading up on bitcoin. All you can
It's been two years since the maenad, Mother Sinead, left the building. Best about the above video, in the second song, "Troy," she stands on her tiptoes every time she sings, an operatic doc marten ballerina. I used the womens for the heavy lifting across this
We've learned nothing "We live in a time that has few historical parallels, that there are practical problems, problems of the restructuring of human institutions, of their obsolescence and inadequacy, and problems of the mind and spirit, which if not more difficult than before are different and
Life in the 21st century is reader supported, please subscribe and make life sustainable. SUBSCRIBE Continued from I Weil writes with the French republic’s founding “a system of people’s representation had been adopted, for want of ability to invent any alternative.” However this was not true, what had
Life in the 21st century is reader supported, please subscribe and make life sustainable. SUBSCRIBE “Nearly everywhere – often even when dealing with purely technical problems – instead of thinking, one merely takes sides: for or against. Such a choice replaces the activity of the mind. This is an intellectual leprosy; it
Here comes the daylight, here comes my job Uptown in the penthouse or downtown with the mob Here comes the nighttime, here comes my role Goodbye to the pavement, hello to my soul Life in the 21st century is reader supported, please subscribe and make life sustainable. Looking at the
Life in the 21st century is reader supported, please subscribe and make life sustainable. SUBSCRIBE I always liked the term ecology opposed to environment. I suppose it comes from my youth. My first semester at the University of Arizona, I was a Wildlife Ecology major. In my first class, I
Financial operations do not lend themselves to innovation. What is recurrently so described and celebrated is without exception a small variation on an established design, one that owes its distinctive character to the aforementioned brevity of the financial memory. The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over
The “money question” passed out of American politics essentially through self-censorship. This result, quite simply, was a product of cultural intimidation. In its broader implications, however, the silencing of debate about “concentrated capital” betrayed a fatal loss of nerve on the part of those who, during Populism, dared to
"Thus in depending on the future of invention to extricate us from the situations into which the squandering of our natural resources has brought us we are manifesting our national love for gambling and our national worship of the gambler, but in circumstances under which no intelligent gambler would
“There's a very real danger in this country of bowing down before the brazen calf, the idol is the gadget. I know very great engineers who never think further than the construction of the gadget and never think of the question of the integration of the gadget with