Financial vehicles designed to conceal wealth and questionable activity fuel corruption and crime while allowing perps evade accountability
Saturday, September 13, 2025
Trump Dons Apron, Works Drive-thru, Fry Station at Bucks County, PA McDonald’s, Warming Hearts and Exploding Heads
Hot takes on Trump’s campaign “stunt” at McDonald’sa
2:00PM Water Cooler 10/21/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, Syndemics; The polls: the race is too close to call; Obama’s West Wing Brain; Machinists to vote on the new contract Wednesday; it’s a cliffhanger ~
How the Surrealists Used Randomness as a Catalyst for Creative Expression
it’s important to recognize that embracing randomness allowed these artists to think outside the box
Germany Can’t Stop Digging
As Berlin tags along with Washington into the war crimes abyss, it blames Russia for turning Germans against the government.
Billionaires Are Not Going to Save Us
Looking for hope in hard places and hard times.
My Life So Far in Type (Partly, at Least)
Reminiscence of the transition from analog to digital in the publishing world.
Book Review: All History Is Environmental History
“History for an urban, globalized, and divided planet, written from a position of empathy for the all-too-human dreams of fossil-fueled escape that now lie in ruins.”
Why America Is Buying up the Premier League – And What It Means for the Future of ‘Soccer’
If Texas-based Friedkin Group’s recent deal to buy Everton goes through, 11 of the 20 Premier League clubs will be controlled or part-owned by American investors.
America’s Shaman-Poets’ Vision for a Better Future
Author and Jungian analyst Steven Herrmann discusses the concept of “spiritual democracy” as explored in the writings of American poets like Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, and Emily Dickinson.
My Life So Far in Writing Tools (Partly, at Least)
Reference works I have known
2:00PM Water Cooler 10/18/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; Friday Charts: RCP chart; shows Big Mo shifting toward Trump; Covid charts show nothing but good news; Walz fabricator vanishes; Trump cancellations; Boeing waits on SEC approval for stock and bond offering; FAA opens new safety review ~
