Twenty years of posts on geopolitics, philosophy, media, investing and whatever else has my attention.
I’ve started a brand new podcast series with David Cole called “The Dreaming”. It’s going to be a long series focused on indigenous affairs. We plan to talk…
I totally endorse this rant by Penn Jillette. Sure, what Mormons (and Scientologists) believe sounds batshit crazy to most of us. But is it really any crazier than…
Step 1. Start a financial services firm. Step 2. Make sure you are the only person in the company who sees the bank statements. Step 3. “Using a…
In the NYT today, David Brooks makes some interesting points about motivation, reflecting on Romney’s latest gaff: The final thing the comment suggests is that Romney knows nothing about…
I’m re-reading The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes and thinking about the great irony that King George III punished thieves by sending them out to Australia while simultaneously…
Arctic sea ice shrinks to smallest extent ever recorded. Scientists think within 20 years there may be no ice left at all at certain times of the year.…
CEO of ExxonMobil, Rex Tillerson, in an on-the-record speech to the Council of Foreign Relations that is publicly available online, has now said that it is clear that…
I don’t know who created this, but I first saw it on this Facebook page. I’m not sure the top of the tree should be the banksters by themselves, as there…
If you haven’t watched THE WIRE yet – what are you waiting for? After all, it’s ten years old this year and it has been roundly acclaimed as…
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