THE UNDEFLATED

Ex-Goldman Sachs banker and conservative quasi-documentarian Stephen K. Bannon has gone where no one has cared to go this summer until now: Iowa.

An OLDY But A MOLDY

Had any wealth “trickle-down on you lately, pilgrim? (If you want to smell the avarice, you must click it.) No mortal who knows God and seeks to do the divine will can stoop to engage in the oppressions of wealth. No noble man will strive to accumulate riches and amass wealth-power by the enslavement or unfair exploitation of his brothers …

LOADED IN THE WHITE ZONE

Honestly? Appliantologists f’n freak me out. But if they want to celebrate life, more power to them.

Freedom Fishing

  Last night at dusk, we walked out along the fishing pier at OB. That’s Ocean Beach.  The pier has been here since 1966, and ambles concretely 1,971 feet out into the ocean;  some think it may be the longest concrete pier in the world.  It also “T”s at its end,  which adds 360 feet to the south, and 193 …

Is Goldman Sachs Losing It?

Back in March, I wrote: From the Wall Street/DC Axis of Evil, the Treasury Department— oh hell, let’s just call it what it is: a wholly owned subsidiary of Goldman Sachs– will announce tomorrow its plan to further reward the very people who brought down the country’s financial system and by extension, the world’s. Matt Taiibi has a more complete …

Saved By Zeros

The Republican Party is rife with Zeros these days. The nine nincompoops above are just a random gaggle selected from the dozens and dozens of them pining to spend time in the GOPper boxes of national leadership-ness-ness. The assortment of war criminals, gas bags, elderly has-beens, living and dead, and a burgeoning bunch of weiner wanna-bees will continue to plague the nation until the electorate relegates them to the slag-heap of history.

The Divine Miss P: Running With God

Sarah Reagan vies for control of the Republican Party Thanks to the legacy of the failed Bush presidency and the electoral landslide it produced for the Democrats, the Republicans are convening in Miami today to figure out wtf to do next. No doubt returning to the glory days of the Reagan Administration will be a major theme. But not even …