Just got home after taking three hours to figure out how to write a complicated e-mail that people needed me to send out last week and not surprisingly, was starving. But whatzuh to eatz? Editor don't rememberz how to cook.
What was needed here was simplicity and improvisation.
So I fired up the rice machine and got some premium organic basmati going. Then, I chopped up two fat onions which I fried to slimey, carmamelized perfection in a quantity of olive oil far exceeding two tablespoons. I added some habanero sauce, a mountain of salt, two cloves of garlic (minced) and a can of garbonzo beans, then simmered the amazing mixture to glistening, gooey spectacularness before adding some awesome broccoli (to defray some of the inevitable cardiac damage). Needed a secret weapon though, and aha! A splash of lemon juice and about three pounds of fresh ground black pepper (recently discovered scientific "fact": not possible to over-pepper beans).
Served on the now-ready rice, eating...Mmmmmmf, ghub.Vry vry ghub.
Mmmmmfmmfff!
In other news, California is really, truly, totally fucked. Turns out you can't cut taxes relentlessly and make it next-to-impossible to raise them in an emergency, then expect to breeze through a cataclysmic economic meltdown. Layoffs, program cancellations and copious suffering to doubtless follow.
Yep, far-right conservative small-government delusions just don't work. They break economies and ruin lives. Kinda like communist delusions used to do back in the Cold War era, ironically. Funny how extremism, intransigence and bullheaded devotion to ideological fairy tales always seems to cause trouble.
But maybe after electing a break-the-mold president Americans are, finally, ready for change? For centrist ideologies and policies based on reason, realism, co-operation and sustainibility?
Nah.
(First link to the New York Times, second to Fox.)
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Yes, tyme for history to leave capitalism, and its ideological, rhetorical crutch, communism, behind. (By the way, there are no Ponzi schemes in Cuba.)
The stock market, clearly, intuitively, is a pyramid scheme. I knew it spelled bad news when everybody over-22 started replacing their personalities with near-pepetual bullshit about their RRSPs and other investments.
Like I always say, there are only so many markets. The vast majority of the planet do not have the $$ to buy shit, therefore, it's up to us to keep the cycle going. Yet, as fiscal disciplinarians of our own personal finances, it doesn't exactly look as if we're planning to spend every dollar we earn on consumer goods or services.
Therefore, system grinds to a halt. We all lose our jobs.
Interestingly, California appears poised to do something BC and Alberta (I believe... maybe just AB) tried during the 1930s when they had Socred govt's -- issuing local script.
Cali is calling it IOU's, but when they're issuing something that trades like money, it means there are now two levels of gov't issuing money in the US.
Back in the day our federal gov't took the provinces to the Supreme Court to stop this, claiming, rightly, that if someone other than the feds issues money, you've no longer got a real country.
The are royally screwed. And I shudder to think how it's going to work out.
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