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Monthly Archives: October 2021

You sometimes need a weathervane

Saturday, October 30, 2021

Bob Dylan famously wrote that you don’t need a Weatherman to know which way the wind blows, but sometimes it doesn’t hurt to have a weathervane, and here’s a case that may give us an early indication of just how much Donald Trump’s judicial picks have warped our legal system: The AP reported, “Former President […]

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21st Century grifting

Saturday, October 23, 2021

A few days ago I reported on a book I was (and still am) reading about the building of the intercontinental railroads in the Gilded Age. For the most part the tycoons who “built” the railroads were actually involved in financial manipulation through which they diverted money, often borrowed from the government, through the railroad, […]

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Book report

Monday, October 18, 2021

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes. The above is attributed to Mark Twain, which is somewhat apt, as he, along with Charles Dudley Warner wrote The Gilded Age. A week or so ago I was perusing the blogs, and read a post by Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money, which, somewhat in […]

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What is this first amendment to which you refer?

Friday, October 15, 2021

We live in strange times. Just when you think someone has done the most outrageous thing you can think of, someone comes along and tops it. You can read the full story at the link. I’ll summarize: A reporter in Missouri discovered a flaw in a state website that exposed the personal information of thousands […]

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Fools and their money

Sunday, October 10, 2021

Back in the olden days of this blog, I wrote about a fairly new financial vehicle called *credit default swaps”, which I pointed out posed a substantial risk to the economy. You can read three salient posts, here, here, and here. Based on the relevant Wikipedia article, I conclude that credit default swaps are still […]

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Yet another shocked enabler

Wednesday, October 6, 2021

Driftglass often remarks about the fact that memory is a liberal superpower, and as with most things he says, he seems to be right. He has, of late, been quite busy exposing the Republican never-Trumpers for the hypocrites they are, as they attempt to cover up their own part in creating the fascist party that […]

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Do I repeat myself? Very well then I repeat myself.

Tuesday, October 5, 2021

While I’m too lazy to gather the links, I ask any reader who drops by to rest assured this is not the first time I am beating this woefully dead horse. I was moved to this repetion when I stumbled upon this New York Times article in my RSS feed. The header? Biden Scales Back […]

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Just asking

Sunday, October 3, 2021

Shouldn’t this woman be facing criiminal charges? Losing her medical license, especially given that she was otherwise retired, seems like a trivial punishment: A Connecticut physician has surrendered her medical license after an investigation uncovered that she was giving signed blank vaccination exemption forms to anyone who sent a self-addressed stamp envelope. An anonymous tip […]

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Remember when you couldn’t make this stuff up?

Friday, October 1, 2021

Just read this article from the New York Times on line and followed the link therein to the report from the actual auditors who audited the sham audit in Arizona. From the Times article: The circuslike review of the 2020 vote commissioned by Arizona Republicans took another wild turn on Friday when veteran election experts […]

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