Now it’s time to pay the piper.
This weekend has been one of the most interesting in recent history. Watching the post mortem on the Brexit referendum on British TV has been an education to say the least. When you walk off of a...
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New Words for the dictionary
Watching markets tank again, makes me want to keep beating the Brexit horse. Once again, thank you voters of the UK for giving me an opportunity to keep working well into my 60's. That night job as an...
View ArticleThe first draft of history…
Yes the markets went back up today. I did my bit to help and bought stock in Match.Com. ( Because you never know when you'll need to fire up that Tinder App). But Britain kept taking one hit after...
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The call of the sea….
Because saving money in the wake of the Brexit disaster is for pussies, right? Actually, I paid for this 6 months ago, long before I knew that 37.5% of the British people were going to fuck over the...
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And we are back. Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.
If ever there was a good two weeks to be disconnected from the world-I think the last two weeks might have been it. Portugal beat France. The whole Dallas mess. The FBI director and his press...
View ArticleThe triumph of the will.
I have had to spend the week back in Shopping Mall USA this week. As a result I have gotten to watch the royal mess that is the Republican national convention. It's been a very graphic display of how...
View ArticleIn and out…
It's been an insane tempo for the last three weeks-and something had to give. Blogging was it. Plus, if anyone could pick three weeks to be out of the grid, the last three weeks were it. During the...
View ArticleSpeaking of ships
The S.O. and I made our first cruise ever on the Splendour of the Seas last year. It was her last year sailing for Royal Caribbean, as it had been announced she was being sold to TUI Cruises. We...
View ArticleWhenever I think of Trump-I think of this song
Donald Trump has proven himself to be completely worthless in the past two weeks. And dangerous. I always think of this song from the musical Jesus Christ Superstar when I see him on TV. Presented...
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Riga
Finally getting around to bookkeeping from the cruise. Below are some pictures from the massively awesome city of Riga. A great place to have visited and I would love to go back. Riga is the city of...
View ArticleNot liking the word, does not mean it’s not accurate.
Trump supporters are whining about the word "deplorable". The only problem is, that's what they are, and because they support ideas that are themselves, rotten to the core-the stench of it sticks to...
View ArticleThe only 9-11 post you need to read today.
And I did not write it. But I wish I had. Jim Wright of Stonekettle Station did, and its worth the couple of minutes it will take to read it in it's entirety. 15 years ago today 19 shitheads...
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The Vengeance Election
It's been impossible for me to write in the past month. Between getting sick, traveling on a sacred pilgrimage back to the wonderful land of Japan and then returning to even more work-something had to...
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There is never a thesaurus around when you need one…….
And if you were a news reporter, you needed one this last weekend. Because they all had to spend a lot of time talking about this: And there are only so many euphemisms you can come up with....
View ArticleEleven Tweets that sum it all up.
And explain quite clearly why Donald Trump is a danger to the Republic and the people who follow him are the same as the Germans in the 1930's who worked for and enabled the foundations of unspeakable...
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Krakow
The S.O. and I went to Krakow for a long weekend. This is St. Mary's Basilica in the center of the old city ( click to see properly):
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Dullbert
One of the more remarkable developments of this twisted and sick election has been the revelation that Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert and supposed champion of the downtrodden in corporate America, is...
View ArticleDear Trumpkins…….
You think that Donald is your answer. As I have pointed out earlier-we all understand your desire for revenge, what we don't understand is how you are so oblivious to the fact that it will hurt you....
View ArticleThis is now my motto for the election.
And what I think about most Trump supporters. They think they are good people. The only problem is that while feeling good about themselves- they are enabling the apocalypse. So are you supposed to...
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