Deep Dives
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The Deep State of Denial About…
There are as many hot takes on the Trump phenomenon as there are bronzer-addicted blatherati jockeying for airtime on cable…
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We Are Not Alone
Space. They say it’s the final frontier. And they’ve probably been saying it for a long, long time. According to…
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Mother Nature’s Invisible Hand Strikes Back
Is the hydrocarbon economy too big to fail? If the woefully inadequate outcome of the Paris climate conference is any indication,…
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Two Decades Of Madness
Two decades of war. Two decades of profiteering. Two decades of killing innocent bystanders. Two decades of surveillance. Two decades of detention and too many years of torture, undue process and profiling. Two decades of hyper-patriotism. Two decades of militarism, unrepentant Exceptionalism and religious righteousness. Two decades of lies, deceit and self-delusion. Two decades of…
Russia’s Role In BountyGate Doesn’t Matter
Shortly after President Trump tweeted that the Russian Bounty story was a “hoax,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told reporters that the US has long known that Russia AND Iran AND others have been funding counter-US/Taliban operation in Afghanistan. Then came this story from Business Insider, which basically corroborates both the reporting by the NY Times…
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Is Oil Kicking The Bucket?
The persistent oil glut I’ve been yammering about for the last four years has finally reached the tipping point … with the coronavirus now making it functionally impossible for the Oil-Industrial Complex to control this epic glut with geopolitical games, targeted sanctions or artificial scarcity. That’s key because this glut (which OPEC+ once again tried…
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The Impeachment Blunder
It’s been my contention that Impeachment is one of the great political blunders of my lifetime … worse than Susan Estrich putting Dukakis in a tank, almost worse than Gore ghosting then-sitting President Clinton and perhaps even worse than Hillary skipping Wisconsin. I have privately debated the wisdom of Impeachment with Democrats, and publicly criticized…
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Sasha Baron Cohen & Free Speech In The Panopticon
As y’all know, I am a free speech absolutist by nature and I am more than a bit uneasy with “de-platforming” because it is not only applied unevenly, but it is easily weaponized to shut down all kinds of speech … not just hate speech or “yelling fire in a crowded theater.” The rub with…