The proverb ”keep your friends close but your enemies closer” comes from the Italian Renaissance diplomat Niccolò Machiavelli but is also attributed to Sun Tzu. As Don Trump begins his second term, I can’t believe how chummy he is with his former enemies. His new frenemies include Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and Don …
Bygone Relics
I’d like to begin by reading a piece of dialogue between Capt. Louis Renault and Rick Blaine. “What in heaven’s name brought you to Casablanca.” “My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters. “The waters. What waters? We’re in a desert.” “I was misinformed.” I am beginning to wonder if Don Trump is going …
“Politicians, old buildings and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.” Noah Cross in Chinatown The death of Jimmy Carter at 100 years old this week reminds me of what Noah Cross said, the evil rich villain played by John Houston, said to J.J Gettes while eating fish with the heads still on. …
We start a fresh, anew if you will. New Year they say. Well, I don’t think much has changed. What I do know though is that China has hacked into our Treasury Department. That’s right. They hacked in, snooped around, and then left. American authorities are not happy. Some so this is payback for supporting …
There are few things I despise more than nepotism. The best thing about America is that originally most wealth and standing had to be earned. As our country gets fatter, dumber, and more socialist we have lost the earned part and seem to have embraced the taking over the family business. There are many examples …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …