National Review‘s Robert Costa has a behind-the-scenes report on Speaker Boehner’s failed effort to get his caucus to pass his “Plan B,” an entirely political, ultimately feeble attempt to confuse the issue and insulate Republicans from incurring...
Note: Such are things right now that writing about the fiscal cliff struck me as a welcome diversion. Ezra Klein is the White House’s favorite young journalist, so he’s been the guy when it comes to...
Another example — and they’re daily at this point — of why I think the US is about to take a dive: A group of House Republican conservatives – incensed by its leadership’s purge of dissenters...
Note: Here’s a post that I began some time ago and that is increasingly losing relevancy as post-election developments multiply. But it ended up being rather long and, frankly, the idea of having spent...
We had a recent outage due to ongoing problems with the latest WordPress update. We were also forced into some theme changes. Some of these changes are temporary and some are probably not. We apologize for the inconvenience.
on Group Activity: Manic Monday Market WatchalongThe Japanese have reportedly dumped $5 trillion in US treasuries. So there’s that.
on Group Activity: Manic Monday Market WatchalongAs of 1.24 pm DOW seems to be bumping along at 38k with a little excitement around a false rumor of…
on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025I think of it more as that the republicans are the “child” party and the democrats are the “adolesce… on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025"he says he would come more often if he could buy and smoke pot at the theater. “How fun would that…
on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025I don't think it's useful to dumb down "racism" to the point where "everyone is racist". I also thin…
on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025Part of the problem is that the Conservative Party is (usually) the Stupid Party. There's a point at… on Tariffs Making China Great AgainWell from inside the machine that’s how we’ve always done it, yet that only seems to be a problem wh…
on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025Trump threatens more tariffs on China: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04/07/business/trump-tariff… on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025Well you do have to admit that being openly racist and misogynistic seems to be a thing for these fo…
on What To Expect When You’re Expecting a Trade WarIt would almost be funny if the Trump administration collapsed because he stood on one of the few pr…
April 7, 2025
Danny Dreamer: It’s a Dog’s Life
April 5, 2025
April 4, 2025
April 3, 2025
on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025
on What To Expect When You’re Expecting a Trade War on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025 on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025 on Martin Niemöller, and Who First They Came For
on Tariffs Making China Great Again on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25 on Tariffs Making China Great Again
on Martin Niemöller, and Who First They Came For on Read It For Yourself: How Trump Admin Defines “Gang Members” For Deportation on Weekend Plans Post: Batchin’ It on Read It For Yourself: How Trump Admin Defines “Gang Members” For Deportation on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25 on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25 on Saturday Morning Gaming: Metroidvanias
