I was listening to some old episodes of the “On The Media” podcast today. Here’s one that got my attention: “Impossible!” The first segment is funny. Jonathan Greenberg is incredulously telling the story of how Trump got onto the Forbes list of richest people (in the 1980s) by talking fast and bullshitting him, and in […]
I’m sharing this here because Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) came up in a Facebook discussion and I didn’t want to derail it. Here’s fun aspect of paying for federal government If you agree with MMT, that’s not a direct concern. The government can’t run out of money, because it defines what money is. It’s the […]
When I was a kid we had a LOT of outdoor cats. Big yard, strays come to live, etc. Whenever one died, my dad would go out in the back yard with a post hole digger and drop the cat in vertically. So a thousand years from now, when archaeologists explore what used to be […]
This is the sense of humor I grew up with.
2017 is Cleveland’s Year of Vibrant Green Space! Hooray! Last year, 2016, was the Year of Sustainable Transportation. Highlights included: New bike lanes on West 25th that make no sense whatsoever (okay, that was actually in 2015); Starting construction on a $300,000,000.00 highway that goes from the East 55th station on the Red Line to […]
Can we be clear on this one bit of meta-bullshit? Suppose hypothetically that I am telling you that your hair is on fire. By that I’m really saying two things: 0. Your hair is in fact on fire. 1. I know for a fact that #0 is true. I’m not just guessing. Now if I […]
Look, Thomas “Suck. On. This.” Friedman has a new book out! It’s called Thank You For Being Late and I’ll let you google it yourself. Just to make one thing clear, okay? I’m not so much a fan of Friedman ever since he used his New York Times column to make the case for invading Iraq […]
WATCH: Angry white Florida man cries racism after deli serves ‘dark-skinned guy’ before him This reminds me of something that happened several years ago at the Utilities Building in Cleveland. It still makes me laugh. I was paying my electric bill at the last minute or something (instead of mailing it in) and had taken […]