Washington DC
Notes on a Shutdown
Washington DCNow, this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning… We mean to hold our own.Read More
The Fed: Damned If They Do, Damned If They Don’t… Damned Straight
Washington DCThus did a handful of rapacious citizens come to control all that was worth controlling in America. Thus was the savage and stupid and entirely inappropriate and unnecessary and humorless American class system created.Read More
They’re All Naked
Washington DCI am also concerned not to come off as shrill or preachy when what I really am is more like confused.Read More
Swans of All Colors (One in Particular, Though)
Washington DC…but also we distinguished the false from true, we had suddenly learned to see. And we saw that there was nothing of their world left.Read More
Empire Is Complicated
Washington DCGreat heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale. – Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn (1968) It’s all quiet on the Wall Street front.Read More
It’s All About Interest
Washington DCSame as it ever was Same as it ever was Same as it ever was Same as it ever was Same as it ever was Same as it ever was Same as it ever wasRead More
Here’s Why the Donald Is the President (Or: The Rise of the Plongeur)
Washington DCA plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is kept at work, ultimately, because of a vague feeling that he would be dangerous if he had leisure.Read More
The Donald Speaks “The Donald” to Power
Washington DCThe record shows I took the blows And did it my way – Frank Sinatra, “My Way” (1969) Donald the Disruptor may have established another new precedent for presidential communication yesterday.Read More
A Tragicomedy of Acela Corridor Proportions
Washington DCNite Owl II: But the country’s disintegrating. What’s happened to America? What’s happened to the American dream? The Comedian: It came true. You’re lookin’ at it.Read More
Any Questions?
Washington DCEverything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen. – Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None (c.Read More
