Payback for Payback

It was reported last week that OPEC decided not to increase oil production thereby insuring that gasoline prices will continue to remain low or lower.   [ continue reading ]

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A Fat Man's Game

Several years ago, an erstwhile friend announced that he was going to practice gratitude by finding at least one thing a day to be thankful for.  I was instantly appalled.   ...   [ continue digesting ]

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What Ever Happened to the Elisor

Anyone who expected the Ferguson grand jury to return an indictment is living in a Jeffersonian fantasy world.    [ continue reading ]

Armistice Day

Chipsters republish what we have remarked before

In Remembrance of Armistice Day

External Locus of Danger -- Dipsomania as Policy

We Chipsters have never liked “Winnie” Churchill.  Not that it matters but we have always considered him to be nothing but a belligerent drunk; .....   [continue reading]

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The Erlkonig

During the day, California’s capital was an exercise, like California itself, in ersatz eclecticism.  There was something unreal,  ....   [continue reading]

The Fomes of Inequality

We recently came across a photograph that gave us a soupier pour temps perdus.   A time when travel was a festive occasion rather than a demeaning experience in prison security.   ....  [continue reading]

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Infections of the Times

The New York Times has published a slop-ed piece by Thomas Friedman entitled I.S.=Invasive Species.   ....  [ continue reading ]

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In Praise of Chicken Feed

Economist and Obama-critic, Paul Krugman, has come out with an article in praise of the president’s performance.    Although himself a frequent critic of Obama, Krugman argues .... [ continue reading ]

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Gullible's Travels

In the run-up to the New Crusade, there were numerous and graphic reports of atrocities alleged to have been committed by I.S.I.S (or I.S.L, as it is variously called).    ....   Woodchips  analyzes the video and photographic evidence to see if it trustworthy or whether it qualifies as mere atrocity propaganda. ....   [ continue reading ]

Dispersit Superbos

Interviewing on Sixty Minutes, this past Sunday, President Urbama I admitted that the United States had "underestimated" the emergence of ISIS in Syria  .....    [ continue reading ]

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0 and 1

It was reported earlier in the week, in a tittering sort of way, that Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, sometimes wondered if God were really there.   . . .   [continue reading]

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