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  • Don’t bet on Russia in Ukraine

    So parts of eastern Ukraine now belong to Russia, forever, or so Vladimir Putin tells us. Nice expanded country you have there, Russia. Now let’s see if you can keep it. It’s perfectly okay for these new areas to be part of Russia though because the citizens there voted to join. Of course, about two […]

    Mark

    October 1, 2022
    Politics 2022
    NATO, Russia, Russian Army, Russian Ukraine war, Ukraine, Ukraine invasion, Vladimir Putin
  • Screwing the poor again through monetary policy

    Our yo-yo stock markets are yo-yoing again, in the down direction. Pretty much all the major indices are in bear territory now, which means they’re off twenty percent or more from recent highs. That matches pretty well with my portfolio. The reason they’re down though has less to do with underlying economics than the Federal […]

    Mark

    September 24, 2022
    Politics 2022
    Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, Poor, Ronald Reagan, Social spending, Working Class
  • DeSantis is not owning the libs here in Massachusetts

    Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is busy “owning the libs” by sending about fifty of them by plane recently to Martha’s Vineyard, here in Massachusetts. It turned out though that he didn’t have any ready “illegal immigrants” in his state, given it’s kind of hard for them to take a boat to Florida, so he imported […]

    Mark

    September 18, 2022
    Politics 2022
    Christian Nationalists, Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, Migrants, Nantucket, Republicans, Ron DeSantis
  • Be like Bob

    From looking around, there aren’t many people out there like Bob. Bob is probably 95 years old. Should I make it that long, I want to be like Bob. Bob knows how to live. I live in a retirement community; in that you pretty much have to be age 55 or older to live here. […]

    Mark

    September 16, 2022
    Life 2022
    Aging, Positive attitudes
  • Should I care that Queen Elizabeth II is dead?

    The United Kingdom’s longest serving monarch finally passed away last week at the age of 96, completing seventy years on the throne. Even recent gains by Ukraine recapturing territory often seems below the fold to the story of the queen’s death and her son’s ascension. Even though I’m 65, she was the only English monarch […]

    Mark

    September 14, 2022
    Politics 2022
    British Museum, Camilla Bowles, England, Great Britain, King Charles I, King Charles II, King Charles III, Monarchs, Monarchy, Queen Elizabeth II, Royalty
  • Trump, the “gift” that keeps on giving

    I’m starting to root for Donald Trump for 2024 Republican Party presidential nominee. I don’t actually want him to be president again, unsurprisingly. And I admit just as he surprised us in 2016 by actually winning the Electoral College, he might do so again in 2024. But I suspect that any other Republican nominee would […]

    Mark

    September 6, 2022
    Politics 2022
    Donald Trump, Election 2022, Election 2024
  • Grand juror, part two

    Back in July, I discussed what it was like being on a grand jury. I’m still on one. Our term is three months. Two months are served, but we should be done at the end of the month. Then supposedly I get at least three years off from again being a juror. Generally, we meet […]

    Mark

    September 3, 2022
    Life 2022, Politics 2022
    Animal cruelty, Crime, Grand juries, Juries, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault
  • Trump is truthing his way toward justice

    It’s been another busy week in Trumpland. Of course, it’s always a busy week in Trumpland. Trump has always believed that it’s more important to have his face and voice in the news, even in a bad way, than to not have it in the news at all. Even with a scorecard, it’s hard to […]

    Mark

    August 27, 2022
    Politics 2022
    Alex Jones, Donald Trump, Malignant narcissism, NARA, Narcissism, National Security, Security clearances
  • Goodbye Marie

    Not everyone can say they’ve buried three mothers. Okay, technically I didn’t bury any of them except my real mom. As she was cremated, it meant handing a box of her ashes to a cemetery worker who put them underground. The second “mom” to go was my mother in law in 2012. That should have […]

    Mark

    August 21, 2022
    Life 2022
    Catholicism, Death, Dying, Families, Funerals, Love, Stepmothers
  • I’ve been enjoying a lot of schadenfreude lately

    First, it was Alex Jones’s comeuppance in court. He mouthed off to the judge and ended up with two judgments resulting in about $50M in punitive and compensatory damages for claiming the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre was staged. This weekend though it was watching Donald Trump writhe in Bedminster while FBI agents raided his Mar […]

    Mark

    August 15, 2022
    Politics 2022
    Alex Jones, Classified information, Donald Trump, FBI, National Security, SCI, SCIF
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