The Grayzone

I'm going down to the Dew Drop Inn See if I can drink enough There ain't much to country living Sweat, piss, jizz and blood Sweet Home Alabama Play that dead band's song Turn those speakers up full blast Play it all night long

Trumpers and Trump

Life in the 21st century is reader supported, please subscribe and make life sustainable. Well, I do this with some trepidation and loathing, but it's per a request. Yes folks, I do requests. Couple days ago, I was heading back from golfing 18 in southern Michigan. Inflation has

Dictators and Presidents

Life in the 21st century is reader supported, please subscribe and make life sustainable. SUBSCRIBE Nigeria is a beautiful country populated by a wonderful people. Through oil, it has been directly and detrimentally connected to the US for decades. I did two elections in Nigeria, the first in 2015 and

A Century of Quantum Mechanics

Come on, Come on, Come on Yeah, Yeah, Yeah And they slag off Noel as lyrically incompetent. Say what you will about the Mancunian brothers Gallagher, they are both funny fucks for one, but in 1994 they were as good a rock and roll outfit as ever took a stage

When in the Course of Human Events

Life in the 21st century is reader supported, please subscribe and make life sustainable. SUBSCRIBE Over the years reading Roman history, it took some time to understand most writers, both ancient and modern, were quick to dismiss the republic's plebeian assemblies, either ignoring them or claiming various structures

Cryptocurrencies II: Stablecoins

“In the broad application favored by Populists, the ‘money power’ symbolized much more than the gold standard, private national banks, or the ‘lordly capitalists’ of Lombard and Wall streets. The money power was corrosive because it was changing the rules under which Americans acted politically. The new politics of centralized

Cryptocurrencies I

"How money was created, and on what basis it circulated, defined in critical ways the relationships of farmers, urban workers, and commercial participants in the emerging industrial state. The answers would go a long way toward determining who controlled the rules of credit and commerce, who shared in the

LA and Posse Comitatus

Life in the 21st century is reader supported, please subscribe and make life sustainable. SUBSCRIBE Back decades ago, only from obscure, mostly, though not totally, right wing civil liberties cranks would you ever hear anything about the Posse Comitatus Act. Today, it’s used by the State of California in

Ancient Inca Water Songs

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Nigeria, Oil, and the US

Life in the 21st century is reader supported, please subscribe and make life sustainable. SUBSCRIBE In Nigeria, the CFO of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has been arrested for $7.2 billion in refineries maintenance fraud. Phew, that’s dollars not naira, a lot of money even for the

Events are in the Saddle

The horseman serves the horse, The neat-herd serves the neat, The merchant serves the purse, The eater serves his meat; 'T is the day of the chattel Web to weave, and corn to grind; Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1847 Life in

Republic = Democracy

God made it easy, God made it easy on me God laid his Es all on me God makes it easy on me some beautiful degenerate dance music for a Friday night from a couple of hooligan Mancunian brothers – no, not those guys Life in the 21st century is reader