2+ day, 5+ hour ago   (166+ words) You know about the missing trillions, right? You know, the $2.3 trillion missing from the Pentagon’s coffers that was announced to the public on September 10, 2001, and then never mentioned again? …Of course, if that IS your understanding of the missing trillions…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (270+ words) I was a fan of the sitcom Barney Miller. My favorite character was Detective Arthur Dietrich, who was played by Steve Landesberg. What I remember were his very dry comments delivered in a deadpan, monotone. (see Best of Dietrich) Steve…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (549+ words) It’s hard to take a joke when our entire economy and financial system is the joke. We’re blessed/cursed to be living in a very peculiar era in which parodies are taken with the utmost seriousness, an absurdist state of…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (443+ words) Fernando de la Rúa left the Casa Rosada on December 20, 2001, through a side door, boarding a helicopter from the building’s roof. It was not symbolic. It was a literal escape from a capital in flames, where 22 people had died in…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (1311+ words) Police departments across the country are deploying autonomous drones that can launch from rooftops, fly beyond visual range, track vehicles, and transmit live video directly to police command centers. Increasingly, artificial intelligence helps analyze those feeds, flag objects, and connect…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (823+ words) International Man: A $20 burrito has somehow become a national political issue. Is this just another silly internet controversy, or does it reveal something important about the state of the American economy? Doug Casey: The bottom line is that $20 just isn’t…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (340+ words) The same issues that caused the US government to give up on pennies may soon encourage it to make a major change in regard to nickels. In an August of 2025 article, I noted that each nickel valued at five cents…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (188+ words) The answer is not primarily about one carrier or one supply officer. It is structural; it has been building for fifteen years, and it lives in a part of the fleet the public never sees — the ships that feed and…...