During and right after the mortgage crisis some were talking about the commercial crash and how that would soon hit. At the time I thought, in a tunnel vision sort of way, Commercial Real Estate, which could be partially true but...
Last summer, someone with the moniker “lawmiss” posted a comment on the website of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Lawmiss wrote something nasty about a relative of a Plain Dealer reporter. The more than 80 comments posted under the lawmiss...
"Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK-Dqj4fHmM
Who would have thought that the best advice for America in a motion picture would have come from Dean Vernon Wormer's reprimand of Flounder in Animal House?
America is...
Probably not but in another amazingly corporate friendly decision a Federal appeals court struck down the FCC ability to prevent Comcast from punishing it's own internet users. The court vacated a 2008 "net neutrality" ruling that guaranteed users...
I think we all recognize that poverty in our nation has increased in the past three years, but what is not so much discussed is that it has been increasing steadily over the past 10 years. In the past...
I. History of Nowruz
Imagine it’s the fifth century before the Common Era, on a plain bejeweled with a magnificent palace complex and flowing gardens, with the coffee brown Zagros mountains in the distance, and a sky the color of...
A Few Samples
Click to see all the idiocy.
If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty and they live in peace and happiness.
Voltaire
This is the last article...
The GOP appeals to the child in people (just look at the cartoonish characters representing it in the media and Congress).
The child they appeal to is the one that throws tantrums, beats up weaker kids for their milk money,...
Tonight begins the eight day holiday of Passover, the oldest continuing celebration among Jews. In Judaism, there are three ways, or levels, of explaining a tradition or a text—the “simple” or face value meaning (Peshat), the story behind the...
RECENT POSTS
Happy New Year! It’s Going to Be a Wild Ride
Lucifer and Mazakeen are making plans for Trump's presidential visit.
Affirmative Action, DEI, Voting Rights, They Want It All Part 2
How different would this country be if not for the logic of Jefferson and the citizens of the fledgling country we call the United States, clinging to their views of their right to enslave people who were free in their country but kidnapped and brought here against their will as enslaved individuals, designated as non-human and doomed to the inhumanity of enslavement?