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  • a little poem…

    Here’s to the World of Pundits,the Realm of the Take and the PodWhere Yglesias speaks only to EzraAnd Ezra speaks only to God. (With apologies to GB Shaw). Continue reading

  • Interesting Times, Already…

    Yes, I believe that Pluto in Aquarius is going to be a Thing. (Whether that’s because astrology has genuine macro/historical properties, or because enough people believe in it that it unconsciously becomes true, or due to some weird truth-in-between is left as an exercise to the reader). That said, Pluto leaves Cap (the sign of Continue reading

  • Friday Tidbits

    Home, sick. (As opposed to “Home, working’). Currently in that ‘can’t do much yet, can’t sleep any more, either’ phase. So, a few bored Friday afternoon tidbits over a slowly-eaten hard boiled egg. Looks like both Antarctica and the Sahara are “greening”. One due to general warming, the other due to unusual changes in rainfall Continue reading

  • Walz/Vance Debate

    Vance presented as a slick one-man focus group. He even managed to scan as A Real Boy at times, as opposed to the unholy Yarvinite Egregore he is in reality (and online, and at rallies, and probably everywhere else). Very good at lying, but not at convincing. Not so much a Gish-Gallop as a Gish-Avalanche. Continue reading

  • Wacky Schemes

    RFK Jr, Kennedy scion, friend to Billionaires, would-be Election Spoiler and future Trivial Pursuit question apparently had a wacky scheme to jam up voting machines in Wisconsin by forcing the State to cover his name on the ballot with stickers. Stickers which would then gum up the voting machines, with the ensuing hilarity somehow leading Continue reading