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Subscribe now In our memory deprived world, very few remember or understand anything about inflation. In the old industrial world, you have to go back 40 years to the last inflationary era, which basically means no one under 55 has any conception. This includes people in institutions, especially financial and
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Subscribe now Joe Biden continued a half-century tradition of American presidents making a hajj to Riyadh to ask the House of Saud to keep the oil taps fully open. It's sort of pathetic, but then don't let Hollywood or rock and roll convince you otherwise, junkies
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Subscribe now Yesterday's NYT write up on their most recent poll is an attempt to put lipstick on a pig. It used to be, back when I paid more attention to such things, in a generic question on who should control the Congress, the Dems needed a five
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Subscribe now As part of my politics of the absurd, I haven't owned a car for over a quarter century. I've been telling Americans for decades we needed to become less car reliant, but saying that to people in a culture built around the automobile, well,
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Subscribe now Mesdames et Messieurs, Bon Soir, this is Joan of Arc, Tonio has asked me to personally deliver a rather special message. He say he just cannot get enough of my 15th-century wisdom. After many a Saturday night of doing ze funky western civilization together I know for a
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It’s important that unlike Afghanistan, the National Security State’s recent 20 year misadventure, Ukraine not be allowed to slip from the American mind, though most likely we will not have that luxury. Since this travesty began, if you’ve read the NYT, Post, all other text media, watched
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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, San Diego, 1990 to be precise, I ran a Congressional campaign in the Democratic primary. My candidate, Byron Georgiou, checked all the boxes of a good Democrat of the time, including being Pro-Choice. However, he was an extreme outlier in
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Subscribe now Pliny the Elder was a Roman writer from the first century. His voluminous Natural History is his one surviving work. It concerns the science of life, such that it was understood at the time. Pliny wrote, parva si non fiant quotidie, loosely translated; things that would be trivial
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Subscribe now Anger is an energy, so said Mr. Lydon. That's absolutely true. Anger is a very important emotion with deep roots in the human animal. Instinctively social animals, a sense of fairness is hardwired within us. Anger bubbles up for a number of reasons, maybe most importantly
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Subscribe now You can make anything a currency. I've long advocated avocados, at least if there's a money collapse you'd still be left with something good to eat. A couple days ago, the NYT ran a piece titled, “How Trustless is Bitcoin, Really?” It
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Subscribe now Would that those now in friendship bound, We whom Love's thread circles round, Death's cruel edge might see! Since good on earth is insecure, And all things must a change endure In dark futurity! Nezahualcoyotl of Texcoco, 15th century I first discovered Prescott'
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Subscribe now To think in 1966, five Mexicans from Bay City, Michigan created one of the defining pop tones of the second half of the 20th century. So, it’s funny, staring into and listening to the rhythms of one of the waterfalls of El Chiflon, that electric organ pops