Jim Kunstler writes ( Read more... )

WIBDI: A Prism for the New Paradigm ( Read more... )

Dramatis Personae ( Read more... )

And timing is always hard, but the gist is a bag of hurt ...

Another Denninger, http://market-ticker.denninger.net/archives/623-The-Stark-Choice-Now-Facing-America.html

Denninger sees red this morning -- who's gonna believe a populist agitator -- but maybe I'll just stock another bag of dried beans (http://market-ticker.denninger.net/archives/622-Fiscal-Cat-5-Hurricane-Warning.htmlRead more... )

Glenn Condell, commenting yesterday on his quoted excerpt of Chris Floyd's pithy characterization of Powell as "faithful servant of America's militarist empire" in yesterday's "The Bagman Cometh: Obama Embraces War Criminal's Endorsement" Read more... )

Most adults rank the word “budget” right up there with dental work and cleaning the oven as most unfavorite task. Like trying to stay on a diet, almost every adult has struggled at one time or another to live within a budget. As the economy continues to spiral downward, budgeting will become an ever-essential skill. I like to think of a budget ( Read more... )

For ninety minutes
His blink/grimace router firing randomly
The crabby old man
Conjugated the verb “to fight”
Seven hundred times
Through teeth locked together
Like a jigsaw puzzle
Dipped in Lucite

Angrily conjured
Irrelevant ghosts

And tried not to scream “boy”
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Immoral unsustainable world-killing insane militarism...or...Black immoral unsustainable world-killing insane militarism...(Tigris commenting on Giblets Fafblog post, "a foreign policy which is actually very similar to John McCain's ( Read more... )

The Business Panic of 33 A.D. is Chapter 1 of William Stearns Davis' 1910 book The Influence of Wealth In Imperial Rome. History sure does rhyme. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Influence_of_Wealth_in_Imperial_Rome/ ( Read more... )