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I likes me a nice bloodbath. Especially one that is so well-deserved. Even if it’s too late to save the country from the disaster caused by my parents’ generation, I’m glad that generation is moving out of power.
Of course, not all is peachy: California’s bigots carry the night, Winston-Salem retains its resident devil-lady.
Now the big [...]

He’s a fab guy, but he isn’t going to fix the horrible things we’ve done to our society and our species.
We have a lot of shit to do. Our nation’s balance sheet stands somewhere in the region of -$50 Trillion. With a ‘T’. That’s over $10 Trillion in federal debt, about $10 Trillion in state [...]

I find it amusing how straightforward even its major supporters are about calling the nationalization of global financial risk a ‘bail out’, with its implication that criminals are getting out of jail. It’s pretty fitting considering how much they’ve screwed up our country/world.
What is especially destructive about the shenanigans in Washington is that they are [...]

Exactly what makes a business ‘too big to fail’? The Treasury has tapped more than two trillion dollars in new public debt over the past few months to save failing businesses, businesses that will still have to take drastic measures to stay open, such as cutting thousands of jobs and fire-selling assets.
One has to wonder: [...]