Just Give Me The Stuff.
New York Times ad on the DC Metro. We want the creation without the creator. The product without the producer. The art without the artist.
We Just Want The Stuff
Wants the creation without the creator. The product without the producer. The art without the artist. How? Just imagine.
ABOUT FACE!
That was fast! A whole Establishment turns on a dime! Quicker than a tuxedo-lad chorus line in a 1930s Busby Berkley musical, a whole nation of Democratic leaders have totally about-faced on Covid mandates. Let’s see now.. From Politico: “Democrats are making a U-turn on mask mandates, just in time for the midterms. It’s happening among the party’s governors, several of whom are easing up their masking rules as Covid’s Omicron wave fades. And it’s happening on the Hill, where…
KITCHEN TABLE ECONOMICS: INTRO
What do you and Jerome Powell—Chairman of the Federal Reserve– have in common? Simple: you both understand economics! The most learned and famous professor and the average American can both grasp the basic, simple truth of economic law. In fact, the average man and woman can have a better grasp of the subject than the college professor, because the everyday person must constantly test theory against reality. What gives the normal, everyday American a PhD in applied Economic Science?…
KEEP ON TRUCKIN’–The Revolt of the Essentials.
So, the Canadian truckers protest is currently in Day 9. Canada’s capital city Ottawa, has now declared a state of emergency. The truckers began as a convoy showing opposition to vaccine mandates and Covid restrictions, and ballooned into a general protest of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s handling of the virus, which they call heavy handed, authoritarian, and a temporary lockdown that never seems to end. “After nine days of noisy and chaotic disruption, Ottawa’s mayor declared a state of…
ROCK’N’ROLL LEFT AND DIE
“Old man take a look at my life.” Aged, 77-year-old rebel Neil Young goes full-on church lady, gets the vapors about a new young troublemaker, and demands the punk be fired. Or he’ll take his classic cookies and go home. Spotify says “don’t let the doorknob hit ya.” Across the room, ole Miz Joni Mitchell creaks up out of her ortho pillow, puts down her Geritol spritzer and warbles “me too-ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo.” (“Sometimes it’s a thin line between Joni and…
LIVE NOT BY LIES, HOW-TO!
Live not by lies. Soviet writer Alexandr Solzenitsyn’s great clarion call shook the re-Stalinized USSR of Leonid Brezhnev to its foundation. Before there was Vlacav Havel and Lech Walesa, there was Solzenitsyn. A man who’d actually survived Stalin’s death camps and had written the internationally acclaimed “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch” narrative of prison camp life, Solzenitsyn was one of several dissidents who defied the all-powerful Soviet tyranny. At that point unable to simply ‘disappear’…
LIVE NOT BY LIES.
The great 20th Century writer Alexandr Solzhenitsyn proved to be a great moral voice that helped bring down the Communist tyranny of the USSR. His ‘Gulag Archipelago’ chronicled the vast murder-camp system of the Soviet Union and stripped away they bloody regime’s moral legitimacy. His great short essay “Live Not By Lies” was both a moral call to arms and a practical how-to guide to living justly in an unjust society. It’s just as applicable today as it was when…
THE BIG I: INFLATION MUGGER IS ON THE LOOSE!
Congratulations! You got robbed last week. And the week before. All last year! How much? Well, it depends where you live, but basically, you took a 7% pay cut last year. How so? Well, the US inflation rate for last year was about 7%. https://www.wsj.com/articles/us-inflation-consumer-price-index-december-2021-11641940760 Every dollar you made was worth 7% less than the year before. Every single dollar you’ve saved is now 93 cents. Someone snuck into your house and your bank and your savings and…
INSURRECTION INTERSECTION
“Insurrection” eh? Strong word. The events of the Capitol Building attack—and it was indeed attacked—on January 6, 2021 are in the news and rightly so. Vice President Kamala Harris likened the attack to Pearl Harbor and September 11. “Certain dates echo throughout history,” Harris said. “When our democracy came under assault. Dates that occupy not only a place on our calendar but a place in our collective memory. Dec. 7, 1941, Sept. 11, 2001, and Jan. 6, 2021.” https://www.reuters.com/world/us/exclusive-fbi-finds-scant-evidence-us-capitol-attack-was-coordinated-sources-2021-08-20/…