Tuesday Open Thread and Meta-Dump
Submitted by JtC on Tue, 10/09/2018 - 7:14am
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Former FBI director James Comey to address UConn community
STORRS, CT (WFSB) - Former FBI director James Comey is scheduled to give a talk at the University of Connecticut on the theme of ethical leadership.
https://www.wfsb.com/news/former-fbi-director-james-comey-to-address-uco...
How is that Blue Wave looking from where you are?
jb and I just read through some essays, open threads, and comments here and there in c99.
Don't know about you, but we think this place is worth supporting.
Where else can you get this kind of digest of things that matter, art, music, ideas? There are a few places, surely, but this one rocks imo.
These two needed to find a new way to make money what with her being a two/time loser who tried to rig an election and Slick with his own #metoo problems, although he pretty much gets a walk from diehard ‘lefty’ ladies. I wonder if it rankles that The Empty Suit can and does haul in way more than she ever did. Bill’s $500,000 speech to the RUSSIANS! during the Uranium One scandal isn’t even the litmus test for ‘speechifying’ anymore. Although their foundation got millions in donations.
Jair Bolsonaro is called the "Donald Trump of Brazil", but that totally undersells just how scary this guy is.
Consider some of the controversial things he's said.
Things always get nutty late in a credit cycle, when overconfidence reaches irrational levels. This time is no different.
But that doesn't mean that the craziness looks like the last time.
Here are some good examples of what to look for when the next crisis hits.
October 8 is also Sweetmorn, Bureaucracy 62, 3184 YOLD (discordian)
The Michigan government passed a landmark law in June that received very little media attention. It is mostly a symbolic law, but in this case the symbolism is important.