Monthly Archives: August 2021

**Gustavos Arellano had a point in his piece a few days ago about Dems and Latinos that could–and should–be extended to progressives. Simply put, you can’t rely on anger against the GOP’s outlandish bs to last forever. You have to … Continue reading →

**Biden may not do it right now, but in the near future I think some heads are going to roll re the advice he was given about how fast Kabul would fall under the worst case sceneario… **I am a … Continue reading →

Libertarianism. I don’t disdain it the way I do corporatism, but neither do I wholly embrace it.I have libertarian views on what I call “lifestyle issues”. This is especially true of the legalization of marijuana and most every other drug. … Continue reading →

The sample ballot for the upcoming CA recall election arrived yesterday. In a nutshell, it is something to behold. There are 46–count’em–46 candidates vying to replace Gavin Newsom. Who are they? The party breakdown is 25 Republicans, 9 Democrats, 9 … Continue reading →

Haven’t had any posts on quotes in a while, so let’s catch up a bit: Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of all of us. … Continue reading →

August 5, 1981. White House astronomer Joan Quigley took a gander at President Reagan’s horoscope, had a brief chat with First Lady Nancy Reagan, then put a green dot on President Reagan’s itinerary. With that, he promptly issued an ultimatum … Continue reading →

Last night at the VFW a friend wondered why so many other countries are mad at the US. “Look at Iran. We would never invade them,” he said. Truth be told we haven’t invaded very much. What we have done, … Continue reading →

While we were drinking yesterday afternoon my friend Paul Watson got a call from a friend wanting to talk about USC’s recruits (football, as far as I can gather). Fair enough. But then he went on to use the first … Continue reading →

About this time in 1991 an article in a major national magazine appeared. Its title? Something like, ‘Rx For a Very Sick Party’. The author (Thomas Edsall, I think) was writing about the Democratic Party. It did not yet have … Continue reading →

Percentage increase of US billionaires since the pandemic began in March 2020 to November 2020: **61,4% Jeff Bezos, Amazon **43.3% Elon Musk, Tesla **21.8 Bill Gates, Microsoft **85.9 Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook **30.8 Warren Buffett, Berkshire-Hathaway **34,2 Overall increase of US … Continue reading →