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Bringing It All Back to the Donald
There’s a very good piece of advice I’ve often found useful: ‘Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence.’ – Arthur C. Clarke, 3001: The Final Odyssey (1997) ... Read More
Game of Tariffs
Let’s compete freely. Goddam tariffs! Free trade and free seas – that’s what’s right! – James Clavell, Tai-Pan (1966) ... Read More
Today in “It Was Always a Bad Idea”
It is not often that you see life and fiction take each other by the hand and dance. – Lawrence Thornton, Imagining Argentina (1987) ... Read More
Bubblevision’s Visionary
Monsters come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them are things that look like things people used to be scared of a long time ago. Read More
It’s a Matter of “When”
Europe today is a powder keg and the leaders are like men smoking in an arsenal. A single spark will set off an explosion that will consume us all. Read More
The Donald Pokes the Red Ponzi
Sooner or later every war of trade becomes a war of blood. – Eugene V. Debs, “Speech of Sedition,” June 16, 1918(1794) ... Read More
A Coup in Imperial Washington
And it grew both day and night. Till it bore an apple bright. – William Blake, “A Poison Tree” (1794) ... Well, there’s a new bad cop in town, and his name’s Bill Barr. Read More
In Plain Sight
Potyomkin indeed decorated existing cities and villages, but made no secret that this was a decoration. – A.M. Panchenko, “Potemkin Villages as a Cultural Myth” (1983) ... Read More
The Magic of Another New All‑Time High
Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence. – George R.R. Read More
