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I do enjoy it when actual smart people travel down the same paths I have. Before going into today's example, a quick review of the story as I told it in late 2021 about the recession of 1991. (Apologies, I no longer have access to the links I used to refresh my memory of those …
Continue reading The Fake Recession Gambit of 1991…Back in the Playbook for 2026?
A brave citizen journalist has been all over the sane internet this weekend: One kid with an iPhone vs thousands of corporate uninterested paid journalists. Incredible. "Here is the full 42 minutes of my crew and I exposing Minnesota fraud, this might be my most important work yet. We uncovered over $110,000,000 in ONE day. …
I have written on this topic on many occasions. A few examples: Conspicuous Diversity – The Pathway Toward Corporate Fragility, Eventual Collapse, and a Broader Societal Dark Age (November 24, 2022) The Natural Progression of Potemkin Diversity (October 4, 2024) The Natural Progression of Potemkin Diversity – The ‘Unnatural Selection Toward Shallowness, Mediocrity, and Societal …
My Saturday morning news round-up after the legally required dump of the Epstein files late yesterday brought the following quote to mind: “If you want to know what power looks like, watch a man safely, even smugly, do interviews for decades, without ever worrying whether he will be asked the questions he doesn’t want to …
As noted in the final hours of the presidential administration that operated in his name: That [Biden] was always going to be a pathetically bad president was never in doubt. ... The Office of the President of the United States has never been smaller than it is today. Coming up on eleven months later now, …
Continue reading On American History’s Greatest Buffoon – ‘A wan vision of failure’
The history of the last decade and a half or so, as seen very clearly from this keyboard in real-time but when finally compiled for later generations from the perspective of time and evidence only revealed after the fact, should document the passage through four key phases: (1) the Progressive surge under Obama that fully …
A topic that I have dwelled on (to no small extent) produced just a little bit of smoke late last evening. Interesting 'smoke' at that, but we will just need to see where this all goes (if anywhere): New: Leaked Docs Claim Forensic Evidence Ties Former Capitol Police Officer to Jan. 6 Bomber On January …
Continue reading The ‘J6 Pipe Bomb’ Anti-Narrative Just Gets Curiouser and Curiouser
It has been a bit over five months since I have posted on this topic (see links below) but the reader should not take that as a sign that the poor asswiping skills of our Chief Justice are not continuing to grow the very noticeable skid mark across one branch of our national government. The …
Continue reading Of Judicial Skid Marks and Tipping Points (UPDATED)
Well, it has been in crisis for quite some time. I have it on good authority that this has been obvious for many years to those deep inside the engineering cubicle farms of some of the players involved who are willing to see it. For those not able to witness the cancer from the inside, …
It was Mr. Crichton who introduced me (and many others) to the Gell-Mann amnesia effect...a strain of which is described perfectly in the modern context here: I was quite literally radicalized by 60 Minutes. I used to be like so many Americans, watching it religiously and trusting it. But then as a young man I …
Continue reading Michael Crichton Smiles…and I Remember 60 Minutes on MTBE
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