I get to write about this one because TMC doesn't think the headline is strong enough. While we are not prudes here, her proposal would make a sailor blush and I'm not sure how to transcribe the scream of rage that punctuates the end.

Also I have EpiPens, at her suggestion. I have a pretty serious allergy to Bell Peppers, Red, Yellow, Green, and otherwise. I happened to tell her the story of how I was DJing at one of my club's social functions and they served Potatoes O'Brien. What makes them O'Brien and not just greasy chunks of crunchy fried potato is that they add some diced Red and Green Bell Peppers. The entree was 2 paper thin slices of Roast Beef smothered in gravy to disguise the fact that it was mostly gristle and fat and the sides were an over boiled Broccoli/Cauliflower medly and the aforementioned Potatoes O'Brien.

I worked through lunch (I had other duties you know) and I was starving. Even though I knew it was probably a bad idea I scraped off the Peppers and ate the potatoes.

Soon enough I had a raging headache and my partner said, "ek, you don't look so good. Your face is as red as a radish. You'd better lie down for a while." So I did. I passed out for about 3 hours and when I woke up I didn't feel great but I could function. My poor friend had been single handing it the whole time which is not as easy as it sounds so I helped him finish up and break down the system.

What are "Capital Controls"? Well, they're basically laws that keep people (and corporations) from sucking Billions of dollars in revenues and resources from your country and taking it someplace else.

It's no secret I think that the Trans-Pacific Partnership is the worst "trade" deal ever representing a complete corporate take over of the United States government and the end of democracy as we know it (oh, it's also bad economically and excuses actual factual 18th and 19th Century style slavery).

All 4 Presidential Campaigns (Green, Libertarian, Republican, and Democratic) have rejected it (Deez Nuts is silent on the issue). Of the two major parties, one candidate has been completely opposed from the start (though given that it's Trump he's probably lying) and one (after a too close for comfort Primary) has changed her mind and currently says "I oppose it now, I'll oppose it after the election and I'll oppose it as president." Clinton is reluctant to directly call on Obama to withdraw the pact or to lobby Congressional Democrats against it because it would be "disrespectful" to the President (let me show you some disrespect- Barack Obama is a murderer and a War Criminal).

Fortunately the decision has been taken out of their hands by none other than Human/Turtle Hybrid Mitch McConnell, Senate Majority Leader.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way–in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

How do you know your cat is a Tory?

I'm obviously confused.

You see to me 'Liberal' means socially progressive and non-discriminatory, someone who's in favor of economic equality and the Labor movement, someone who believes in democracy and accountability to the electorate, a person who values courage and accuracy in reporting.

Allow me to briefly recapitulate. The London Interbank Offer Rate, or Libor as it's commonly called, is supposed to be the interest rate international banks charge their most credit worthy customers, other banks.

It is primer than prime and the basis for most other calculations of interest rates, the amount charged to purchase money, throughout the global economy.

Fortunately I studied Samuelson and Nordhaus who at least pay lip service to the seminal macroeconomic insights of Keynes. One of the concepts Keynes explores is that what is rational and logical behavior from a micro-economic standpoint can be profoundly counter productive.

Take the case of Cheese.

We are experiencing a cheese glut, 3 extra pounds for every man, woman, and child. Even if we gave it away to the 795 Million people who according to the United Nations World Food Program "don’t have enough food" that would be one and a half pounds apiece.

Careful readers may remember that while I have studied at many institutions, none of them were the University of Michigan or Michigan State. They hate each other with the white hot passion of a thousand burning suns. The only things they have in common is, well... Michigan of course, a mutual hatred of Ohio State that exceeds their disdain for each other, and Leonard Falcone.

Well, perhaps I should amend the above because I was a student of his in a summer music program at Michigan State (he thought, correctly, I was hopeless) but I'm sure my schadenfreude about any U of M misstep is transmitted genetically through my parents, Richard and Emily, who met at State. Go Spartans!

The back story goes something like this- the University of Michigan School of Economics has for years produced a highly influential consumer sentiment survey. I'll let Bill Black take it from there.