In ten years we will celebrate the bicentennial of the Monroe Doctrine. When Monroe signed the Doctrine on this day in 1823, the imperial world was a lot like today’s imperium. The major European powers were dividing up the world using trading companies backed up by their military. Monroe [...]
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SUNDAY REVELATIONS: As Hannukah Approaches, Building the לוי brand
I wince this time of year because of the effort the politically correct community makes to fuse Christmas .. a holiday of peace and of the triumph, of the Christian religion, with Hannukah, a holiday of Jewish resistance to foreign dominance. So, it is good this year to read how one Jewish legacy,[...]
March 5th, 2012 - 10:02 am § in America, The Ave Scene
What Mitt and His Ilk Do with $250,000,000
Qatar Purchases Cézanne’s The Card Players for More Than $250 Million, Highest Price Ever for a Work of Art Mitt Purchases and Election for $100,000,000, Highest Price Ever Paid to Buy An Election. The tiny, oil-rich nation joins a massively exclusive club: only five Card Players exist, and the o[...]
January 10th, 2012 - 12:49 am § in America
Steve Jobs Returns?
A $99 posable figure Steve Jobs action figure appears to have elicited an immune response from the corpus of Apple. The company, In Icons, has been nown to make other effigies, including the figures of Kim Jong Il apparently used by North Korea in some of the photographs taken after the Dear Leade[...]
Can Darcy Burner Represent the New 8th?
The New 8th Looks Republican to Me The base for Darcy’s candidacy was her roots in Redmond, Kirkland and the north end of Bewllevue .. the land that Microsoft built. That was part of the old eighth, where she lost to Reichert. Now she lives in the new first. Now, her chances depend on the [&he[...]
Redistricting Screws Black Folks in Seattle
Our leaders have used a soupcon of melanin to flavor a soup made of grits, dashi, menudo and matzoh balls. The redrawn 9th Congressional District is “only” 49.67% non-Hispanic white. However, it already has a well-entrenched incumbent in Adam Smith. And, as I noted yesterday, the voters of the[...]
December 26th, 2011 - 8:33 pm § in America
Is Apple’s Goldfinger a North Korean Project?
Something odd is happening in North Korea. First, The AVE and The Guardian reported discrepancies in published accounts of how Kim Jong-Il died. The Guardian suggested that the Dear Leader did not suffer a fatal heart attack, as reported, on a long train trip but died instead on a shorter trip t[...]
Woody Allen’s son to join UW Rhodes Scholars!
Woody Allen’s son to join UW Rhodes Scholars! NEW YORK (AP) — The son of actress and activist Mia Farrow and director Woody Allen has been chosen as a Rhodes Scholar. Ronan Farrow is among 32 American students who will be awarded scholarships to study at Oxford University. It’s not the[...]
November 17th, 2011 - 9:38 am § in America
Monopoly Money
Clinging to a Bankrupt Monetary System By Eric Fry 11/15/11 Laguna Beach, California – “Europe is in one of its toughest — perhaps the toughest — hours since World War II,” German Chancellor, Angela Merkel declared yesterday. Who would argue with her? The Second World War crippled the Euro[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Is Steve Jobs Now a Mormon?
The Mormon Church has the power to bring Apple to the next level …. Godhood for Steve Jobs. The suggestion is not as incredulous as some might think. After they die, Mormons can progress to being Gods of their own worlds. The only problem is that Steve Jobs died an atheistic Buddhist. BU[...]