Well... turns out that Garfield 2.0 lies about who built the Panama Canal. Bet you thought that wasn't possible. Everyone knows the USofA built it, right? Teddy Roosevelt and all that? Well... and the US Army intervention in the creation of "Panama" in the first instance.
So, we made it, kinda sorta back in 1914. And all was well with the world. Then the Peanut Farmer decided to go all Limp Wristed Lefty and give it back the Panamanians (who were really just Colombians). Pissed off soonToBePresident Huey Long 2024©.
So now, Mad Dictator Don goes bizarro over Greenland and the Canal and the Gulf. A full blown crackup is on the docket.
Turns out, the current Canal (to all intensive porpoises) is not what was built ~1914, but what was built by 2016, without any USofA moolah. Look it up here. So, fuck you Drumpf.
What happens to capital when there's no more labor to replace?
Essays on topics economics: monopolists, oligopolists, and oligarchs aren't better decision-makers for the society just because they's rich and they ain't the damn gummint.
Gutting the Civil Service will put Trump where Garfield ended up
A Psychopath Lame Duck. What Could Go Wrong?
The world is not linear.
-- Dr. McElhone/1974
The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.
-- Verbal Kint/1995
-- Dr. McElhone/1974
The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.
-- Verbal Kint/1995
There's a fine line between one person and 10 people with H5N1. By the time
we've detected 10, it's probably too late.
-- Rick Bright/ 2024 [it's gotten worser, and worser, and worser, and worser]
I don't know if the bird flu will become a pandemic, but if it does, we are screwed.
-- Angela Rasmussen/2024 [Bonzai!!>
The United States has recorded its first fatal case of H5N1 bird flu...
-- Helen Branswell/2025 [bring out your dead]
-- Rick Bright/ 2024 [it's gotten worser, and worser, and worser, and worser]
I don't know if the bird flu will become a pandemic, but if it does, we are screwed.
-- Angela Rasmussen/2024 [Bonzai!!>
The United States has recorded its first fatal case of H5N1 bird flu...
-- Helen Branswell/2025 [bring out your dead]
Buck {Showalter] has always reminded me of something his father once told him:
"The jobs that are easy don't pay very well."
-- Mike Lupica/2023 [and don't qualify them to run anything; sub-GED knuckledraggers take note]
-- Mike Lupica/2023 [and don't qualify them to run anything; sub-GED knuckledraggers take note]
-- Marriner Eccles/1951
This Week's thought
E.P.A. regional officials told Congress that their superiors in the Reagan administration ordered the changes to comply with demands made by Dow. -- Trip Gabriel/2025 [days of future past]
See you next week in a brand new show©Heckle and Jeckle
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Left wing economist since before it was fashionable
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