Mammon category archive
The Crypto Con 0
El Reg explains non-fungible tokens for dummies.
H/T to Harry Shearer for featuring this on Le Show.
Courting Disaster 0
Robert Reich is less than impressed by the track record of Supreme Supremacist Court Chief Justice John Roberts. A nugget:
Cashing Out 0
Above the Law’s Liz Dye examines Donald Trump and his Organization’s attempt to squirrel assets away from legal oversight and escape accountability accounting. A snippet:
Follow the link for details.
Twits Own Twitter 0
Twits Own Twitter 0
I have a sneaking suspicion that Musk is in well over his head on this venture. (The discussion on Tuesday’s Bob Cesca Show certainly gave some hints of reasons for optimism.)
Image via Job’s Anger.
Oil Slickers 0
Brian Greenspun, publisher of the Las Vegas Sun, argues that, if you must base your vote on the price of gas, rather than on larger issues, such as, say, just for an example, the loss of our democratic form of government, then
. . . let’s make sure we are blaming the right president for that which is ailing us right now.
Follow the link for a long and complex narrative explaining why prices at the pump got pumped. I doubt if I’ll be giving away in surprises when I say that Joe Biden is the wrong president to blame.
The New Gilded Age 0
F. T. Rea thinks that Donald Trump and Elon Musk are fitting figures for our new gilded age. He suggests:
What Musk and Trump have most in common is that they will always want more.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
(Grammatical erorr correxeded.)
Facebook Frolics 0
SeattlePI reports on yet more metastasized frolics. Here’s the lede:
That’s pocket change to the Zuckerborg.
“The Rent Is Too Damn High” 0
Thom takes a look at why the homeless population has exploded.
(It’s not the fault of the persons who have no places to live, but that should be no surprise to any thinking person. Unfortunately, we seem to have shortage of thinking persons, but that’s another story. No one–at least, no one whose mind is functioning, to borrow a phrase from my old doctor, “within normal limits”–wants to be without a place to live.)
The Privatization Scam 0
Martin A. Davis, Jr., takes issue with Virginia Governor Trumpkin’s maligning the efficacy of Virginia public schools by misrepresenting the meaning of certain national test data. He points out that, despite the Governor’s spin, the numbers show that “Virginia is performing as well as most every other state in the union, and better than a significant number.”
It’s a cynical ploy based on the faulty belief that competition makes everything better.
Education is not a business. It is a public good. And public education in Virginia is doing quite well relative to other states.
Follow the link for more details about the data.
A Twit Owns Twitter 0
Yet another reason I’m glad I never leaped on the Twitter manure spreader.
Speaking of the Zuckerborg . . . . 0
The editorial board of The Seattle Times is fed up with Facebook’s scofflaw frolics.
The Artful Dodger 0
I am reminded of what Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., once said.
