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Announcing the 2023 OILY Awards

Elon Musk, on “Lords and Peasants”

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year From Jim and Misha

What’s Up, Joe? I Thought I Knew Ye…

The Supremes, the Song and Dance Group That Passes Judgement on Our Laws

Suppose, If You Were Rich Enough, You Could Run through Stop Signs

The World Gets ‘War Weary’ in Ukraine

Private Equity, the ‘Dynamic and Flexible’ Scam

This Is What a ‘Fresh Raid’ Inside Gaza Looks Like

Jim’s Public Service Announcement: Have Your Computer Professionally Cleaned

The Reuters Headline: US Public Support Declines for Arming Ukraine

For Fracking Sake, an Industry Completely out of Control

Proof of the Fact That We Really No Longer Give a Shit

A Poem on Sunday, Why not?

What a Good Idea, Converting Libraries into Disciplinary Centers

Congestion Tolls? Nah. There’s a Better Case for Turning City Streets to Parks

The Super-rich Want an Empire. Americans Want Their Middle-Class Values Back

Congestion Tolls? Nah. There’s a Case for Turning City Streets to Parks

Is There Anything as Dispiriting as a Gig-Economy?

Like Ducklings Furiously Paddling, Small and Medium Sized Banks Are Now Looking for Mom

Cleaned Out or Cleared Out, What It Means When a Homeless Camp Goes Down

As Long as You Don’t Peek under My Bed

Time Out for a Poem

‘No Labels,’ a Centrist Group of Democrats and Republicans, Is Threatening a 3rd Party

“Why Aren’t Americans Happier about the Economy? Asks Robert Reich. I’ll Tell You Why, Bob …

Having Destroyed the Surface of This Lovely Planet Almost as Far as Possible, We’re Taking a Deep-Dive to the Ocean Floor

Subsidizing the Purchase of Short Sleeve Shirts

Is It Reasonable to Think We’re Being Helped?

Is There Anything as Sweet as Being Idle on a Sunday?

How Many Fantasies Fit in a Bottle Thrown into the Ocean?

The Middle Class is Frozen Like Deer in the Headlights

There’s Always a Little More Toothpaste in the Tube

Saudi Arabia’s Desperate Attempt at Innocence

If Democracy Is Not “a Struggle To Advance Particular and Controversial Political Ideas,” Then What Is It?

The Weakening of the American Social State

While We Concentrate on Biden-Trump, the States Are Eating Our Lunch

Are We Moving Quickly Enough—And Breaking Our Culture Sufficiently in the Process?

Woke Is a Hell of a Long Way From Awakened

The Inflation Reduction Act—Another Case of Public Utilities Gone Private

Whether He Stays or Goes, a Reputation and a Legacy Are Destroyed

Tucker Carlson Will Run for President

The Tucker Carlson Firing May Have Longer Legs Than It Seems

Someone Always Gets Stuck With the Check After an Expensive Meal

Allies (mostly America) Diddles While Ukraine Burns

A Paul Krugman Editorial

ChatGPT Is Out of Pandora’s Box and the Question Is, Will Writers Survive?

I Draw the Line at Clicking on the Wooly Mammoth Meatball

Enough Is Enough. “Sensitivity Editors” Have Raised the Hackles of My Sensitivities

From Sweeping Elegance to Bars of Soap, the Decline of Automobile Design

Re-posting “Follow the Money” Is a Little Bit Different Than “Who Benefits?”

“Follow the Money” Is a Little Bit Different Than “Who Benefits?”

Marjorie Taylor Greene Has an Interesting Idea for Once in Her Life

An Article from Bret Stephens of the New York Times that you may have missed.

UN Recognition and Determination Always Arrives Late at the Party

Commentary—Walking the Dog

How Did the Homeless Suddenly Become ‘Unhoused?’

Among It’s Other Debilitating Rulings, the Supreme Court Has Introduced America to Endless “Unspeakable Acts of Violence.” The Court Has Blood on It’s Hands.

That Excuse for Greed that We Call Inflation

Remembering My Horticultural Background

David Brooks and Me

Christmas From a Stepladder