Like all previous economic systems in recorded history, capitalism is on track to repeat the same three-step trip: birth, evolution, and death. The timing and other specifics of each system’s trip differ.
Hearsay and ‘herd’ stupidity
“First one sheep jumped to its death. Then stunned Turkish shepherds, who had left the herd to graze while they had breakfast, watched as nearly 1,500 others followed, each leaping off the same cliff.”
Forward the GOP white brigade
Last week the Washington Post shared video of an unidentified GOP official calling for 10,000 volunteers to brave the darker reaches of urban Houston to find — and fight! — voter fraud.
Vote suppression: the GOP national pastime
Atlanta lost the All-Star Game and baseball’s draft because the major leagues joined the swelling ranks of those repulsed by Georgia’s newly restrictive voting laws. Welcome, Colorado.
Ignorance needs a punching bag
On a scale of pretentiousness, from 1 (Mr. Rogers) to 10 (Mr. T), Anthony Fauci is a 2 and Rand Paul is a 15.
‘Doddering Joe’ takes off like a geyser
Republicans in Congress, in their stout unanimity against the American Rescue Plan, must gulp to see the 70 percent-plus public approval of the measure.
Here is what the American Rescue Plan does, the COVID Relief Bill.
This excellent article by DailyKos’ Joan McCarter gives an excellent breakdown of the American Rescue Plan, the COVID Relief Bill. This is a transformational bill.
Build the wall — at Texas’ entry to New Mexico
“In my time in Texas I interviewed Abbott several times as state Supreme Court justice and attorney general. I never thought of him as a goon.” But now? …
Deregulation always benefits – somebody
Who can tell me what the Telecommunications Act of 1996 did to radio? Spawned in a laboratory of a Republican Congress but given the electric jolt of life by Bill Clinton’s pen, the law lifted limits on ownership of radio stations.
Governing? Or deflecting it down the fairway?
Here we obsessively focus on the CPI, the GNP, the GDP, when we should be tracking LE – life expectancy.
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