The Post-Partisan Emporium

Although I suspect that he may be too optimistic regarding DOGE and reducing the size of the federal government, I decided to post this piece for the comic relief.   The Shock Market Crash Oversaturation forecasts a Rainbow Bear. If the  Dr. Frankenfurters and DEIgors  of the NSA were allowed to reply to DOGE’s request — “list 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week” — I think an honest response would have been as follows: Hacked the Overton Window. Hacked the Overton Window. Hacked the Overton Window. Hacked the Overton Window. Hacked the Overton Window. The more likely response would’ve involved various forms of papershuffling busywork, much of which was automated into obsolescence long ago. But none of that constitutes their real jobs. That’s not what we’re being forced — at gunpoint, mind you — to pay them for. Technically speaking, we’re not even allowed to know what it is we pay them for. Imagine if 20% of your own employees fit that description. Or I gues...

Raising the Jewish Question Some facts are more equal than others Donald Jeffries I’ve explained many times before that I’d rather be talking about many other subjects than this. I have scores of partially Jewish cousins, but none of them think of themselves as Jews. With all the intermarriage that has taken place, I don’t know what it even means to be a Jew now. But disproportionate power is disproportionate power. Jews are only about two percent of the present U.S. population. That’s a really small minority. There are more Unitarians- three percent- than Jews in America. How many Unitarians have ever been in charge of a movie studio? A television network? A publishing house? A record company? About 3.6 percent of Americans are whole or partially deaf. How many deaf persons own pro sports franchises? How many are agents for athletes and entertainers? Jewish prominence in all areas of the culture, and much of politics, is so obvious that it can’t be honestly disregarded. There is absol...