On the Nature of Things

Meanwhile, over in the Bronx is Aaron Judge who enters May hitting .427 with 10 home runs and 32 rbis and an OPS in the 12 to 13 hundred range (Babe Ruth territory) with about a 1/5 of his at bat totals from last year in the books. He's getting better somehow and he doesn't even look particularly ...

Was at Citi Field in Queens this afternoon and while the Mets couldn't beat the Arizona Diamondbacks, Juan Soto finally hit his first home runs at Citi Field as a member of the Mets.



A beautiful swing.

Next dude will sport electric elbows and everyone will just go on pretending that it's totally normal that every banker they find to lead the wef has a theatrical physiology ripped straight off a bond/batman villain.

The Real Legacy of Pope Francis

It gets scummier than that. A part of the story is of course having no defense against corporations. Another one is a bit more between the lines. CD sales peaked as baby boomers and others rebought their whole discography again on a new format. The extra cash from the switch-over was coming to an ...

I still remember as the pre-Napster pop music industry collapsed, the biggest amount of piracy was coming from the Netherlands, which had laws in place making it hard for the English-speaking music industry to protect and enforce their property rights. Further complicating the picture was the fact ...

with China we lose our biggest export market, with America we lose .. shit tv and moral lectures ? The lot most loved apparently. The straw that broke the camel's back was the not the endless war, the sh*t economic policy and periodic meddling in the world economy....it was taking away the moral ...

While acknowledging the China lobby in America really waned by the mid 1960s, I think its good to reiterate how psychologically important China has been to the upper echelons of the American psyche since the 19th century. -It was the most powerful lobbying group in the US for a century. -Where it ...

The official Trump policy is that America was an aggressor (shooting missiles into Russia) in an official proxy war (Marco Rubio's exact phrasing) ...with the ellipses leaving off "by the CIA"-- which tinfoil hat and all, is very hard to distinguish from Five Eyes and the governing class of Europe ...

What? Russia slingshotting missiles into Ukraine is chopped liver now?

The incessant chasing of economic growth and GDP per capita increases, rationalization, the min-maxing of all possible economic inputs and outputs, profit over people - all these plagues that neoliberalism has supposedly brought upon us - is ultimately all that the socialist himself knows of and ...

That's only if one is expecting to read the grammar and vocabulary as if it were a perfect language with no remainder- straight outta the toybox. -------------- Whatever communism was and is and will be in theory is beyond Marx and Engels at this point, and that includes the capitalism that they ...

What Was Communism? This is 2 of 2 posts, splitting one large passage from an even larger essay found at the link above: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The modern business corporation as a form of socialized property The nature of the modern ...

What Was Communism? This is 1 of 2 posts, splitting one large passage from an even larger essay found at the link above: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Another influential figure in building up the post-war political order in Europe, and perhaps a good ...

I used to write for the NO music mag ‘Wavelength’ when they were hot. The Meters/Neville connection is not well known outside the scene. That's cool. Google sends me to the university of new orleans with archives to the magazine. Is there an act from back then I should be looking for? Every morning ...