Apparently, in spite of months spent on the task, Donald Trump cannot be exonerated by the Special Counsel appointed to look into his dealings.
March 24, 2019
March 17, 2019
The First Aside of the 2020 Presidential Race
Say what you will about Joe Biden, he spearheaded the bankruptcy bill that made it to the desk and signature of George W. Bush, that effectively indentured a generation of student loan recipients to decades of ineradicable debt payment, itself a mere sidelight to the bill's main aim, removing historic bankruptcy protections from a broad range of consumers.
So there's that.
March 16, 2019
March 12, 2019
Brexit Breakdown
How fucked up is the world economy going to be in the aftermath of the gun-to-its-own-head British state careering somnolently toward the nihilist culmination of Brexit a couple of weeks from now? The United States is particularly entwined with the fate of the financial instruments purveyed in the City, London's clearinghouse for global financial transactions. I have no idea if the markets have priced in the cost of disconnecting Britain from the global economy already. Even so, a jolt should be expected shortly, to the unhappy isle and associated parts of the wider world.
March 07, 2019
A Suggestion Is Corrected
CORRECTION (March 7, 9:48 a.m.): An earlier version of this article incorrectly suggested that an article in a conservative outlet suggested Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her top aide could face jail time over an FEC complaint. The article suggested that they could face jail time over ties to a political action committee named in the FEC complaint, not because of the complaint itself.
March 05, 2019
I Cried "Uncle"
John Phillips, of the Mamas and Papas Phillips's, wrote the song Me and My Uncle, a staple of Grateful Dead performances, becoming that group's most played song between 1965 and 1995, with 608 performances (a plausible though not personally verified by me amount), which is many more than necessary by my way of thinking, but admittedly offering up scores to choose from if the best ever among all the rest of them is sought from Deadheads who perforce would have experienced a decent sampling during any arbitrary stretch of time during those 30 years had they attended whatever the minimum number of shows it might take to be considered a Deadhead at the time.
I'm pretty sure I was at Winterland for what appears to have been the third performance of Me and My Uncle. I thought it was O.K., however much my pronounced distaste for cowboy music in general ruled against it. That was always going to be the best performance for me. The rest I managed to endure with what patience I could muster under the circumstances.
March 03, 2019
Suicide Is The Last Refuge Of The Cynic, I Hear
Hunter Thompson memorialized at University of California Santa Cruz's McHenry library.
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