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Let’s call it “Ask the Crybaby.” It’s the news phenom in which US reporters ask Brit-expats, almost always wealthy, what they think of Brexit. The old blog term for it was Shoeshine, that being what the well-off will say or think in support of those at the very top. A high button performance in kickdown […]
Support your local rural white guy and his 600 dollar lethal metal organ. Or else (they’ll buy even more of them.) The NYT brings home the volkische wisdom from the country environs of the Red, White and Blue Gau. It’s all about good clean fun, reads the title. AR-15 ownership and shooting instills feelings of […]
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Hillary Clinton could make it happen. I’m more than 90 percent convinced a Hillary Clinton run as the Democratic Party’s nominee could depress base voter turnout so badly a Republican psychopath/theocrat could be elected. I’m not the only person who thinks it. Clinton will never be able to shake her imperiousness. She stands for little […]
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Edward Ericson Jr’s. TEDx talk on the sharing economy. Or as he points out, the bringing of the black market economies of failed and near-failed states to the US, except with the added convenience of a smartphone app. He puts it wryly, but every effectively, dubbing it the model of the social network in Laos, […]
Reuters canoes deep into the swamps of Dixie WhiteManistan to gather opinions on the yen for secession: Only 1 in 4 support it, but the dead-enders are united. And confused, as always, somehow believing that about half of Scotland voting to leave the United Kingdom was somehow like what precipitated the Civil War and Cliven […]
A Congresswoman, Claire McCaskill, put online a tabulation of the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles sent to American police departments since 2011. Its numbers are linked to police departments with less than ten active duty police officers and, by state, how the total number exceeds the numbers possessed by National Guard units. (Hint: Most state […]
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On the cybersecurity for the benefit of the 0.1 percent beat, earlier this week on a story about JP Morgan Chase being hacked, allegedly by the Russians, probably criminals: Former NSA/U.S. Cyber Command chief and cybersecurity consultant Keith Alexander said the success of such an attack highlights just how “vulnerable??? the U.S. financial sector is, […]
Old PARIAH magazine, the glossy we wish was on the newsstand, way ahead of its time. This Labor Day marks the first in recent memory where many opinion writers could no longer overlook the dreadful state of American employment. As a result, today you can easily find recommendations to raise the minimum wage or a […]
A couple weeks back venture capitalist and Six Californias ass hat Tim Draper won a US government auction for 30,000 BitCoins. From the blog: Draper is planning to use his digital wealth, in partnership with a company called Vaurum, to finance bitcoin-exchange services in the developing world. At a press conference, he praised bitcoin’s ability […]
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Keith Alexander: “Freedom is not free.” No, advice on the matter costs a million bucks a month for some, maybe. Briefly retired ex-NSA director Keith Alexander has been busy. “He’s already out pushing hard,” as someone pointed out earlier this week. And he just pushed hard as the keynote speaker at the Gartner Security and […]
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