Looking Backwards … LB #1 The clock is ticking before the wee orange man takes his second oath and starts issuing tariffs like Chinese throwing stars to the rest of the world. Ping, zing, pow! That is at least what he says, and I believe only some of that so who knows what will happen. …
Today I want to talk about a disappearing phenomenon before it is gone, your dollar’s purchasing power. The dollar is the world’s reserve currency and the current arrangement was set up at Bretton Woods in 1944 as the US was set to help the rest of the world after the war. America had all the …
Looking Backwards … LB #1 Today we see that the ratings agency have finally gotten the pigeon shit out of their eyes and taken a more objective look at these countries that they are supposed to be monitoring. This from ZeroHedge, “Alas, after Marine Le Pen toppled Barnier’s government in a dispute over deficit reduction …
In 1997, there was a wonderful neo-noir crime drama called LA Confidential. It tells the story of three cops in the early 50s. Colin McCormick and Padraig Cotter set the stage well in their piece on ScreenRant.com, “Directed by the late Curtis Hanson, L.A. Confidential is an adaptation of James Ellroy’s novel of the same …
Looking Backwards … LB #1 As I look outside the window and watch the winter rains slowly steal the sunshine and fall colors away from the landscape it occurred to me that something else was reigning across the world. Chaos. ZeroHedge will be featured heavily today as chaos shaking the ship doesn’t seem to generate …
Today we continue with one more post on the hodge podge stew of bullshittery that we are about to embark on. While the task force was being announced also just over a week ago over 60 million people watched or at least logged in and tried to watch a 58 year old Mike Tyson fight …
Looking Backwards … I recently came across a funny joke by Norm McDonald in which he said something to the effect, I was reading the history books and the good guys always won, can you believe that? What are the odds? Norm loved to gamble, so I am sure he found the odds being a …
Today we are starting a two-parter for y’all because there is just too much bullshit going on. Don Trump’s new bff Elon Musk has certainly changed gears over the years. I believe words matter and that people like zebras don’t change their stripes as it was interesting to read the Inverse’s piece written by Alasdair …
Looking Backwards … LB #1 Today we begin with a fun story written by Andrew English who is very much English and writes for the Telegraph. He got to drive the new Ford Mach-E mustang during a busy travel week in the UK. “Perhaps autumn half-term week was not the best time for driving long …
Well, damn. I was all set to connect the dots and reveal exactly what The great Pumpkin and Elon Musk were up to for term two, but that will have to wait a week as Old Joe Biden will not go quietly into that good night. He will not back down from a good fight. …