Veterans Day Remembered
Today is special to me for three reasons:
1. Veterans Day – I am from a military family and I was a professional soldier as a young man;
11/11/22
Category Archives: America
11/9/22
Trump Sell By Date Arrives
Donald J Trump expected to announce his 2024 candidacy for President next week in the warm glow of a transformative Republican red wave election.
That will not happen — he may decide to run for President, but there is no Republican red wave election glow.
In fact, there are a great many people who are blaming Trump for the election’s outcome. Continue reading
10/18/22
Housing – The Canary In The Coal Mine
The other day I used the above phrase — the canary in the coal mine — and a person said, “What does that mean?”
Canary in a cage with an oxygen bottle resuscitator. Real life thing.
Miners carried canaries in special cages into the depths of underground coal mines because the canary was more sensitive than humans to deadly gases like carbon monoxide.
If the canary died, then the miners hauled ass and, hopefully, revived the canary. Continue reading
10/17/22
The Hills Are Alive With Colorful Leaves
I spent the last few days in Cashiers, North Carolina hiking the mountains and healing my soul. My favorite hike is around a chi chi girls’ camp on the shores of Fairfield Lake. It is simply the best.
The mountains were and are — for about the next two weeks — alive with color of such outrageous richness as to make one skeptical of their reality. It was a welcome respite from the storm.
09/28/22
What Happens If Nothing Works?
We have had it good here in America for a long time. Pre-pandemic we had the strongest economy since before the American Revolution.
Then, the pandemic upset the apple cart, but we always thought it would return to some sense of normal and that normal was good, very good.
06/29/22
We Are In A RECESSION, You Bloody Fools
When Sec Treas Janet Yellen was appointed, she inherited a steady string of Trump Era/Pandemic inflation at a rate of 1.5%. If she had advised the new President, “Steady as you go, Old Boy” things would have been hunky dory, no?
04/8/22
The United States Forms the Global Energy Alliance
In much the same way the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries came to life to maximize their financial interests and to extort the world by manipulating the supply and thus the price of oil, the United States needs to form the:
Global Energy Alliance
WTF, Big Red Car?
03/6/22
North Caroline Tarheels Wreck Coach K’s Coronation
Last evening, the University of North Carolina and Duke University contested a bit of sport on the Cameron Indoor Stadium basketball court in the Southern redbrick mecca that is Duke University, a school on Tobacco Road built by tobacco money.
Cameron Indoor Stadium defines home court advantage with its Crazies making it like the game is played in a dorm room under a flashlight. It is a horrific environment if you are a visiting team.
The Duke Blue Devils were favored by the punters, the smart money, by 12 points at game time, but here was much more at stake. The Duke v Tarheels basketball rivalry is the best in all of college sports. It is huuuuuuuuge.
