Professor Snyder’s nightmare (thanks, Tom) concludes:

We have to act now.  This is what no one wants to hear.  We want to believe in American democracy.  We want to take pride in new laws, a growing economy, the end of covid.  I get all of that.  I want to feel that way too.  I […]

Marketing guru Seth Godin:

Production values

A generation ago, delivering the news was a civic duty. Now it’s a profit center.

The quick edits, the crawling text, the noise–it all exists to remind us of a thrilling movie, not of real life.

And the clickbaiting reality of online news multiplies that.

But […]

These folks paid $1.3 million for a parking space.  Do you ever get the feeling inequality has gotten out of hand?

Trump, who expects to be “reinstated” soon, would work to make that inequality worse, enabled by the party of tax cuts for the rich.

In case you missed it, here’s everything to […]

RECAF: The second well confirms the results of the first.  The stock opened at $9.24 before settling back to close at $7.78.  Still a triple for us.  If you’re now playing with house money, hang on for $30?  Or $100?

Pete, re yesterday’s post (Bitcoin and Ethereum Are Dead):  “What about the fact […]

Or so argues Jared Brock . . .

. . .  a few decades from now, Bitcoin and Ethereum will be collector items, not the currency of the global economy. Here are eight reasons why: . . .

. . . which he follows with  . . .

People Aren’t Actually […]

But first . . .

Listen to Friday’s All In With Chris Hayes (28% of Republicans accept Q-Anon core beliefs) . . . killing the bipartisan investigation (it’s Benghazi that warranted nine investigations) . . . some new Giuliani . . .  and “the Biden budget that would revolutionize the American economy.”

Also . […]

RECAF:  This could be fun, especially for those who bought before it tripled (and then sold some to be playing from now on with house money).  It links to a report suggesting our shares could be worth $60 ($72 Canadian).

BOREF:  The work toward FAA certification continues.  Completed: a ground vibration test, […]

This is “must-listen” if you think freedom, free elections, and a free press are worth fighting for.

The whole world is backsliding toward tyranny.

Listen.

Or read the transcript.

. . . Samoa gained its independence from New Zealand in 1962. It was admitted to the United Nations in 1976. And then this […]

Watch Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles on Amazon.  “You don’t have to be Jewish,” it’s universal — and 98% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Also 98% on RT: In the Heights, in theaters June 11.

Lin-Manuel Miranda shows up in the former and wrote the latter.

Immigrants — they get the job done!

Ira […]

But first . . .

PRKR won its first settlement: see yesterday’s press release and further color here.  My hope — having the happy gene and a zillion shares of this thing — is that this small-ish settlement will be the first of several while we wait for potentially huge settlements or […]