This end of the month follow up only comes a week and a half late. WC blames it all on spring migration. Anyway, here’s a look back at developments involving earlier blog posts. More proof, if you needed it, that WC is not a journalist. Drug pusher Insys, who senior management team was recently convicted…
Ethnic resentment and clan consciousness are social forces far more powerful than economic class. It reflects the permanent truth that all people, including poor people, follow their values, however perverted, rather than their interests, however plain. – Adam Gopnik, “The Takeback,” New Yorker, April 8, 2019. WC and Mrs. WC spent a few days recently exploring…
Congressman Justin Amash (R, Michigan) recently did a remarkable thing. He not only read the Mueller Report, he understood it, understood the evidence presented and concluded that President Donald Trump should be impeached for obstruction of justice. None of that would be remarkable, except Rep. Amash is the only Republican member of Congress to do…
Why do people doubt the reality of anthropogenic climate change in the face of near unanimous expert evidence that it is real? It’s because the fossil fuel industry and its investors have spent billions of dollars working to persuade Americans of a lie: that there is doubt, that the science is uncertain. Those fossil fuel…
WC is indebted to long-time reader CaliforniaCruisin for the word “snollygoster.” She applied it to Fairbanks politician wannabe and serial loser Joe Miller. But Miller is a piker, a mere pretender, just a hack in comparison to the grifter in the White House. A snollygoster is “One, especially a politician, who is guided by personal…
The late P. F. “Flip” Sloan (nee Philip Gary Schlein, 1945 – 2015) wrote the folk pop tune, “Eve of Destruction.” For those who have forgotten, or are too young to remember, here’s the lyrics:[^1] The eastern world, it is explodin’, Violence flarin’, bullets loadin’, You’re old enough to kill but not for votin’, You…
The Honorable David Eastman (R, Wasilla) has foot in mouth disease. Among politicians, foot in mouth disease is manifested by an elected official who may have a valid point to make, but makes it so ineptly, so dreadfully, that any validity is lost in the botched expression of the point. David Eastman is Exhibit A.…
