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Friday T&A: Walkback Edition

Friday T&A: Walkback Edition

Boys, I dunno about you, but I am EXHAUSTED. It’s been a damned long week, and for me, at least, it still isn’t over. I’ve got a HUGE pile of work to do over the next three days or so, and next week still looks pretty brutal. But I can’t really...
Friday T&A: Calling the Rain Edition

Friday T&A: Calling the Rain Edition

It’s been another long week, but a highly productive one, for me, at least. That also explains why posting has, once again, fallen straight off a cliff, but that should change soon enough – by mid-June I imagine things will even out. Unfortunately, one...
Friday T&A: Stagflation Edition

Friday T&A: Stagflation Edition

Damn, I’m glad this week is finally over. I’ve spent the last several days up to my eyeballs in financial data, ratio analysis, and industry reports, and I don’t mind admitting that I’m quite exhausted. It will be good to relax for a little...
Friday T&A: Half-Century Edition

Friday T&A: Half-Century Edition

Well, thank God it’s Friday – been a long week, for sure. And I’ve got plenty of reason to be thankful, in fact. For as it happens, I hit 58 subscribers on my mailing list. And that deserves its own special mention. All of this happened because Our...
Friday T&A: Over the Hill Edition

Friday T&A: Over the Hill Edition

There are days when I feel OLD. Especially days like today. And, objectively speaking, I AM old – though many of my readers in their fifties and sixties will no doubt be either amused or annoyed that someone considerably younger than them is bitching about a few...
Friday T&A: Outfoxed Edition

Friday T&A: Outfoxed Edition

Y’know, when the Fake President and his Fake Administration took office, it came as a huge shock to many of us on the Hard Right – and it was a huge blow to our morale as well. But even the most pessimistic of us probably did not expect that things would...
Friday T&A: Levels of Stupidity Edition

Friday T&A: Levels of Stupidity Edition

What a week it has been, eh, lads? It would appear that the neoclowns – who are pretty much terminally stupid by any rational measurement – have, for the moment, backed down from their cartoonishly dumb attempts at intimidating the Neo-Tsar. It has been a...
Friday T&A: Half-Time, Scores Tied Edition

Friday T&A: Half-Time, Scores Tied Edition

Looking around the world today, it is difficult to avoid a deep feeling of dread and despair. I’m not immune to that any more than you are. The feeling I describe is one that you probably know well, but perhaps cannot articulate. It is a feeling that we are...
Friday T&A: Hill of Spring Edition

Friday T&A: Hill of Spring Edition

Well, it’s finally time to take a bit of a break for me. Two weeks of “holidays” – which in reality will involve quite a bit of work – commence starting today. Still and all, it will be nice to be able to wake up when I like, not have to...
Friday T&A: Spring Cleaning Edition

Friday T&A: Spring Cleaning Edition

Well, spring is definitely here – the weather is warming up and the days are getting longer, much to everyone’s relief. Unfortunately, the (Western) world appears to be going straight to Hell in a hand-basket. The Fake President continues to run the USA...