RE TOO BIG VENN DIAGRAM GLOBALIZATION HOLIDAY CARTOON

Mise en scene for a Globalist Holiday Cartoon.

Remember the venn diagrams from geometry?

Well, we are showing a picture enveloped with enormous 'Venn' bubbles, cross-intersecting each other. The Caption above:

Holiday Bulbous Globalist Gala

"Soap Gets In Your Eyes"

The one below, "Lebensraum Needed"

A Fate That Narcissists Will Hate: Being Ignored NYT Editorial AVOID MICKEY MOUSE SCIENCE ALSO CALLED JUNK SCIENCE

If 5 categories are eliminated of 10, what does that imply for the previous credibility of this analytic framework, or for its credibility going forward?

Wittgenstein had made some remarks, eg about things like 'experimental methods and conceptual confusion'.

One could perhaps append 'clinical methods, and conceptual confusion' here.....

One needs to avoid the appearance, too often seen in the social sciences, and even many so-called exact ones, of being too 'Mickey Mouse'.

When a so-called 'discipline', see eg recent posts on this topic, goes in, to some extent, for 'more an art rather than a science' rubric, watch out.

Real estate appraisal, just one tiny example, has sometimes been called an 'art', rather than an exact science (whatever that may now be taken to mean).

Thus, it has not been 'susceptible' to certain legalistic standards, otherwise normatively applied, in the legal field, to so-called more 'exact sciences'.............

RE THOMAS FRIEDMAN FROM WIKICHINA EDITORIAL

His editorial is rather good.

The big irony is that Friedman has been an outspoken advocate for the globalization that made China's new role on the world stage, and its perfectly justifiable scorn of backward America, possible in the first place.

He needs to take a hard look in the mirror next time he publishes something like this.

It exposes Friedman's globalist hypocrisy better than anything anyone else could think up.

RE WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD

See David Kaiser's latest post.

Were I a betting man, I would think that the Donald had some chance, given his gross media exposure all these years;

but what do I know?

The Donald, a flesh and blood 'Thurston Robert Macaire Howell', now, late in the game,

just wanting to 'give back' to the great system that made it all possible(eye water).....something like that.

Re the Venus of Willendorf Beauty Versus Ugly Philosophers and Gods The Mediterranean Diet And Other Things

We are going to commence, in dribs and drabs, a discussion of various topics, which I will connect in abstruse ways as we go along.

The title gives a hint of what is to come.

Here is an image to start. this is The Venus of Willendorf:

RE A STALE FOOD FIGHT EDITORIAL NYT MICHAEL POLLAN the menu

Re food safety, and a lot of other things:

Why an Iowa?

For that matter:

Why an Oklahoma?

After all:

Why a fragmented confederacy?

See also, Bing terms search, 'weak governments', etc.

Most Americans don't discover how ill governed they are, 

and long have been.

When examples such as this (regardless really of where, or if, you stand, on this food issue) are pointed out, even if it registers, they quickly forget it again.

RE THE SPANISH PRISONER THE EU AND US THE REAL ROAD TO SERFDOM

It's not just Spain.

We are all, rather, 'The West', on a locked train, heading toward global 'Wage Poverty Siberia'.

The EU has tied the hands of its European captives on this train, precisely as Krugman describes, has happened to Spain.

Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Spain, today,

who else tomorrow?

The US has similar constraints, imposed on it by globalization, not just by a currency union;

lack of control over its separate currency, especially amid fiat currency wars;

no expansionist levers amid globalized environment except ever more globalization..... down 'the slippery slope';

government stimulus ineffectual for the same reasons;

tariff or embargoes, now useless for similar reasons.

I would call this the real

THE ROAD TO SERFDOM

RE LEAVING THE EURO HOW WOULD IT WORK?

Good question. The article gives a few examples.

Perhaps they should start buying gold, and go on a gold standard over a few months?

Say, a Greek or Irish transitioned gold reserve currency.

Sounds quite farfetched for these regimes. They want to leave the euro precisely presumably to print extra money, which the EU won't allow.

Certainly if they go back to their former fiat currencies, they will be crushed, capital flight beats down the value of the fiat currency, and banks fail, etc.

RE IS SQUIRREL THE PERFECT AUSTERITY DISH? EDITORIAL BBC ENTRE CHIEN ET LOUP the menu

BETTER THAN, SAY, SOMETHING ENTRE CHIEN ET LOUP!

Most Americans should read this little gem. Of course, the British are sending up their country brethren in this article, but that is nothing new, and well deserved I might add.

Of course, I have a special fondness for the little devils (both squirrels, and British).

My grandfather used to take me hunting for them in the woods of Mississippi.

Contrary to Mr. Smith, my grandfather also loved squirrel brain, too.

(Smith: "It's a quite pleasant tasting dish and I would not be afraid to offer it to the Queen," he says, before quipping, "Y'all are overrun with squirrels in England. You need to eat some of them!")

So here is a passing comment on cooking, since I got a stray request recently for some cooking commentary from an admiring reader:

we didn't stew these little gems, where I came from; we rolled them in flour and meal and some kind of binder my grandmother used, and Southern Fried them to perfection. They tasted rather like Colonel Sanders' chicken, heavily salted and peppered and crusty.

One could also grill these little rascals, or even saute them. Either would work very well.

If grilled, or on a kebab, I recommend a little smoked bacon be placed in proximity as well.

Some of the cuts of squirrel we had were suspiciously similar to certain dishes of ostensible chicken I have since eaten, especially in some Indian restaurants in London.

It seems that eating squirrel is not necessarily limited to rural America, at least among some city dwellers, even in the heart of some European capitols.

My grandfather loved fried squirrel brain! Just like Mr. Smith's mother.

He actually used to use a nutcracker, my memory is rather vague on this detail, to crack open the fried skull; he had also remarked about nuttiness, that it tasted like walnuts.

I recommend a garlic mash, green beans, turnip greens with fat back, and squirrel drippings, flour, onion, garlic, provencal herbs, and fino sherry gravy, sourdough soft dinner rolls,

and a 'dry riesling' to accompany this little delicacy!

Pecan pie a la mode, sanka (just kidding), and of course, cognac and cigars to follow.

One might also substitute rabbit, but i have never tried it like this.

One might try possum too, but again, I have not had the pleasure.

Better hurry, WWIII perhaps about to begin.

SEE ALSO PRIOR POSTS

RE FRANCO PRUSSIAN WAR

AND PARIS Paris BOULANGERIES
terms search the menu

Re NO VEMBER

Well, it's beginning to appear that I might have actually guessed right on this.

Would be a great time to incidentally sink the dagger into the EU, and further destabilize already 'fragile' (Yes 'Fragile', all economists agree) globalistic economies, everywhere;

with an eye to wringing as many economic and territorial waters appeasements as possible;

assuming that lazy fare and nearby developmental regimes choose, as they almost must, to start to play along, giving it up, until the bitter end, slippery slope, becomes clearer to them.

The Middle East has been the convenient, and draining, side show camouflage, for these long accumulating events to begin to unfold.

Re THEY HAVE ANGERED CHINA TOO NO VEMBER

The forthcoming four-day US-South Korea naval manoeuvres were organised well ahead of this week's attack, but they have angered both North Korea and China.

Way too late for Americans, especially those like Geithner, to smell the coffee.

RE CARTOON MISE EN SCENE UNCLE SAM DOG WITH A PEST

Picture an old mangy Uncle Sam dog seen from the side half sitting. He should be a hound dog, rather than say a Pekinese, Foo, Chow, or Shar Pei.

He is bedevilled near his rear, half scratching at it, by a very large tick, half the size of the dog, and by other smaller fleas here and there.

The caption above: Trade and Security Partnering In Asia

Diplomatic Dialogue:

Sam (Somewhat dizzily): Are you a close friend?

Tick: No, just a flea.

Sam: Can you guard my behind against other fleas?

Tick: Sure.

Sam: Fair enough.

The one below: Free Riders Beggar Their Neighbors

RE KRUGMAN BLOG THE INSTABILITY OF MODERATION

Great blog post.

I see it, of course, also as part of a much larger trend toward compartmentalization, the kind of thing E H Carr bemoaned re a disconnect between politics and economics, even in the late 30s, The 20 Years Crisis.

It had begun in earnest, as Carr had pointed out, early in the 19th Century.

Call it, in part, a failure caused, in part, by compartmentalization.

RE KRUGMAN'S EATING THE IRISH

Here,

Krugman needs Blitt too!

Could do a kindofa Gahan Wilson

thing, color green, etc.

RE LEONHARDT ON GEITHNER THE LAISSEZ FAIRE CASANOVA CHINA HAND

Geithner: Old China hand.

I especially liked the image of the nation going PRC flag color.

That says it all.

That's economics for ya. All our Walmart stuff are made behind China's borders, and further behind their territorial waters, now so very in dispute.

See prior posts re Casanova Hand, laissez faire, lazy fare, etc.

THE ASIAN REFORMATION

Great that China can take over the Catholic Church within its borders.

Great news.

Kind of gives all Westerners, not just the Catholic Church, a 'heads up'.

RE 50 STATE LABORATORIES TAILS WAGGING BIG MNC OTHER STATES OFFSHORE OR FOREIGN DOGS

Many corporations were originally incorporated in New Jersey, a small state, which I had suggested recently (re NYT editorial) should perhaps be rolled into New York, along with a few others, for good measure. Thinking about Newt's view, why have '50 labs', when say 20, or 10, or even say 5, would do even better, economies of scale, consolidations, outsourcing, and all of that?

New Jersey was a big one for incorporation costs 'breaks'; so many big big MNC dogs have their tails wagging in, guess where, New Jersey.

Most of those corporations do no one in New Jersey very much good anymore anyway, to say the least; they might help New York a little here or there; in fact, a lot of damage and neglect there in NJ, probably.

Therefore, why not, when we roll New Jersey into a 'bigger state dog', simply unincorporate all these unpatriotic MNC behemoths in the 'New Jersey Pound', in the rolling process?

Why really bother with trying to resuscitate 'antitrust' laws, from the New Deal period and before, a dead letter now anyway:

just unincorporate them as part of consolidation, and commence the 'winding down' process.

If you want smaller weaker government, you need even smaller even weaker still private entities, otherwise, WHO GOVERNS? Many MNCs have 'economies' and 'capitalizations', and therefore political power, larger than that of some states, and most foreign countries.

I know this will sound odd, but Newt's position is equally at an extreme location.

RE NORTH KOREA A THREAT BUT PRC ALLY PRC OUR FACTORY AND OUR STRATEGIC ADVERSARY

You figure it out.

Japan, another 'ally', they hate the Koreans, and the Chinese.......

That is so called market capitalism, writ large.

When it unravels, soon, watch out.

Re Newt Gingrich 12 Ideas

"50 state laboratories"... great stuff for people who have no idea what they are talking about.

Not that the present federal structure is anything to write home about, but get a load of the states, each one, of 50, and each their manifold subordinate local governments. Rather like Germany before Bismarck. Napoleon had a field day with it.

See my prior posts on this topic.

Rumpole's quote from Hood re Korea situation

Re my previous post re: Poetic Relief

"No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease,
No comfortable feel in any member.
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,
No fruits, no flowers, no leaves,
no birds, --
No vember."

Say, for the sake of mere speculation, November.