When, in a society, you have developed the methods to turn a profit when the market goes up, and you have developed the methods to earn a profit when the market goes down, then you can fully expect that the market will not remain stable for long. Eventually someone will pluck the string. Then, in …
Category Archives: Politics
NWS WXK27 Service Disruption
Turned on the Austin TX weather radio WXK27 just in time to hear an unusual message: Public Information StatementNational Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX117 PM CDT Thu Jun 5 2025…NOAA WEATHER RADIO OUTAGE DUE TO A SOFTWARE UPDATE NEXT WEEK…The Austin/San Antonio National Weather Service office will be conducting a required, scheduled update to their …
Crater
Chest is caving in. No matter how I read the news, it’s the same result: loss of breath. Hoping there are adults in the room to swat down the bastards, but the adults are the bastards. It’s a bad scene.
Fantaxtic Four
On this day, April 15, Tax Day (for those who celebrate), I’m pleased to report that I got as close to the golden $0 as possible. Thanks to my W4 adjustments last year, I dialed it in and this year I owed only $4. That’s correct. Four. Dollars. This means the Feds got only what …
Wall
Had a dream that the term “anticompetitive practices” was legally expanded to include “things that are free”. So everything offered without a fee, from comics to blogs to crossword puzzles, had to go behind a paywall. And the payment processors capitalized on this with fee structures that made sure nobody small made a profit. I’ve …