Nov 3, 2023 – No cheerful news this morning on the international freight front. There’s a global economic slowdown in progress which is being exacerbated by natural weather cycles, and potentially threatened by geopolitical events. What a mess. Last night Danish shipping giant Maersk announced a steep dive in profits for their...

Nov 2, 2023 – This is a short one, but it is a question I cannot answer that routinely begs for some explanation. Any explanation. And I know we’ve got our own pieces of work – Boebert in the theater springs immediately to mind – but holy smokes. Today’s example just blows...

Nov 2, 2023 – So, that new Speaker of the House, that Mike Johnson guy. Soft spoken, serious as a heart attack…he can also be an attack dog when he needs to. SPEAKER FLASHBACK: Rep. Mike Johnson dismantles Jerry Nadler and the Democrat plan to turn millions of illegal immigrants into Democrat votes:...

Nov 2, 2023 – Target Corporation, the once much-loved red bullseye in the sky of upper-middle class aisle meanderings, has had a rough year. Their once bullet-proof stock has done the Electric Slide from lofty heights into “just hangin’ in there” territory, with no appreciable recovery bounces at any time in the past year....

Nov 1, 2023 – Tramp cargo ships of murky registration love it when the world’s attention is focused on land-based conflicts. One looks very much like the other – ubiquitous rust buckets of the sea – floating serenely, aimlessly on ill-defined missions between ports. They also, being in such rough condition, could be expected...

Nov 1, 2023 – We woke up to some upsetting news Monday morning. Our Ebola sent an overnight flash he’d received in Germany. Our relatively new Marine Corps commandant, Gen Eric Smith, had been hospitalized with a “medical emergency” Sunday evening. While concerning, we thought it was probably one of those...

Nov 1, 2023 – I’m telling you – I knew my favoritest wind villains were due to announce results last night, but I didn’t dare hope for this. Tears in my eyes when I read the tweet. Orsted just announced its pulling the plug on two New Jersey offshore wind projects, Ocean...

Oct 30, 2022 – Dear Mid-Term 2022 voter – this is a public service announcement. The rush to blame the Right for words = violence in the aftermath of the awful attack on Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul is looking even more cynical than it usually is when they whip out the blame card,...

Oct 28, 2022 – WOOF! This ad is something else! Mark Kelly wants to mask your kids pic.twitter.com/JuXsV44Pld — Blake Masters (@bgmasters) October 27, 2022 It’s not a typical campaign advertising boogie man scare tactic, either. For an uber-pricey Kelly campaign event (tickets ranged from $100 to $5000) held yesterday,...

Oct 28, 2022 – Ponder this CNBC headline for a moment, would you? “BIDEN CAST DOUBTS ON THE CLAIMS” meaning what? As a wizened sage of my acquaintance just put it, the CNBC lede can read “Biden disagrees with Putin, says there are reasons to use Nukes,” right? It’s either that...

Sep 18, 2024 – "Gosh, Beege. We know you don't like her, but isn't that kinda harsh?" the tender-hearted among you might ask.Ah...nope.As we are, in theory, a family-friendly site, I can't wax as poetic as I'd like, so I'll stick to that - 'monster' will have to do.And she's monstrous in so many...

Sep 18, 2024 – If you remember, back in July, right before the Republican National Convention, word broke that Sean O'Brien, feisty, obnoxious, and victorious president of the Teamsters Union, had been invited by none other than Donald Trump to speak at the convention.O'Brien accepted the offer.The collective gasps of horror and shock reverberated...

Sep 19, 2024 – Gosh. This #Bidenomics thing is such a swell performer that the Federal Reserve had to pull what is basically an emergency half-point rate cut to try to redirect where the Biden-HARRIS economy is actually going.It sure hasn't been a bed of roses for anyone but the vegetable in the White...

Sep 25, 2024 – We are less than a week away from the impending International Longshoremen Association’s (ILA) strike at all the ports on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts after negotiations with the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX) reached an impasse months ago.The ILAs president, Harold J Daggett, is a feisty old codger, full...

Sep 25, 2024 – Alright.[CUE: Harris theme song]         Another happy, happy, joy, joy round of patented Harris inspirational argle-bargle is on today's menu!I know you've missed it, too, considering she's been underground for days now - no one's seen the bubbly princess since last Friday.I mean, what's with that? I thought she was running for president...

Sep 27, 2024 – What a lovely start to a Friday morning. First, we were high and dry here (our ardent thanks to every last one of you wonderful folks who asked after us, bless you all), with our hearts going out to our fellow Americans in Helene's path across the SouthEast. May your situation...

Sep 27, 2024 – Getting testy out there - that's all you can say about that.A couple of days ago, I caught you all up on the looming East and Gulf Coasts longshoremen's strike, set to happen close-of-business 30 September.There are a lot of different irons in this fire, from the blustering cantankerousness of...

Sep 27, 2024 – Isn't this a nice 'howdy do'?Nothing but the finest for our troops, always. And the finest of craftsmen to build them.DoJ Notified of Suspected Faulty Welds on Subs, Aircraft Carriers at Newport News ShipbuildingShipuilder Newport News Shipbuilding, Va., informed the Department of Justice of faulty welds that may have been...

Oct 2, 2024 – Ah, the sound of silence.Gampy POTATUS must really love it. That's probably why he beats feet every week out of his chi-chi digs in the center of Washington to his pricey little retreat on the beach in Rehobeth. Secret Service can keep all those intrusive tourista beach crawlers away from...

Oct 2, 2024 – There is nothing so vile or vindictive as Lefty sore loser disease, and there is a LOT of that going around in Europe at the moment, particularly in Germany.At the beginning of last month, I told y'all how Olaf Scholz's worst nightmare had come to pass - that the [fixed]...

Oct 2, 2024 – It's been kind of fun this morning roaming around the innerwebs and watching all the euphoria, disappointment, and meltdowns we missed either because we were busy doing our thing here. Or because the damn thing ran way over, and I HAD TO GO TO BED.Like, twenty minutes on childcare? WHUT?!As I...

Oct 2, 2024 – There are some lessons to be learned here, but we've become so dependent on these things so quickly that I'm not sure what we pivot to.I think probably breathing deeply and figuring out how to deal with the problems we have on our hands right now would be a good...

Oct 7, 2024 – I am 100% behind whatever the Israelis feel they have to do to rid themselves and cleanse the landscape once and for all of the murderous, barbaric scourges that bubble and fester along their borders.I hold no quarter in my heart - it's really that simple.I look at what happened...

Sep 26, 2024 – Oh, the GAIA-loving nanny-staters behind the hallowed halls of the headquarters of the European Union Green grifting brain trust.What have they wrought now? Why, it's almost too delicious to contemplate.Back in December of 2022, I told you all about a law the EU had enacted, which would require imports to meet...

Oct 3, 2024 – Everywhere you turn, things are going to Hell in a handbasket, or so it seems, with or without the direct help of the current administration. Whoever that might consist of at the moment, I should caveat.The Middle East is teetering on the brink of WWIII, with Israel doing everything it...