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Political Cynic shares that News, in miniature… featuring Gillian Tett as almost a Keynesian? from January 16 2024. stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 29, 2024 Not to forget the redoubtable Gillian Tett! Or her January 16, 2024 essay: Globalisation Gillian Tett: Look back … Continue reading →

StephenKMackSD. stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 28, 2024 In the Octorber/November issue of the AARP Magazine on page 50 is a report on Rinvok a medication for the treatment of Crone’s disease. In the the 1990’s I worked for a a division of … Continue reading →

Political Observer ponders the propitious moment… stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 26, 2024 Murtaza Hussain has something to say about Mr. Douglas Murray at The Intersept of December 25, 2018 This March, Hungary’s authoritarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán posted a photo of himself to his … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader. stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 25, 2024 When ever I go to the Library, just a block away, I always see Time magazine on the shelf. I usually find this magazine in almost in pristine condition, as I turn its pages … Continue reading →

Political Cynic recommends the redoutable and witty Mr. Crace, as he digests those ’12 Rules for Life’. stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 24, 2024 The opening paragraph of the Crace essay, in which Crace assumes the role of Peterson: Just a few years … Continue reading →

Political Observer. stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 24, 2024 Rod Liddle opines…

Old Socialist comments. stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 24, 2024 Headline: When my life was shattered, death benefits helped me cope Sub-headline: Proposals to tax many lump-sum death benefits cannot be right, morally or legally https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/when-my-life-was-shattered-death-benefits-helped-me-cope-6900sjbqp Read the beginning senteses of Mr. Colevile’s … Continue reading →

Old Socialist asks a New York Times kind of question! stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 23, 2024 Jorden Peterson is the almost natural inheritor of the mantle of Allan Bloom! There is present in both thinkers/actors/politicians the scolding/shaming mentality of the Old Testament … Continue reading →

Political Observer. stephenkmacksd.com/ Nov 22, 2024 Bluesky is a clone of X/Twitter : … https://bsky.social/about/support/community-guidelines … The CEO of a safe haven Officially launched in February 2023, the microblogging platform Bluesky, with 33-year-old Jay Graber as its CEO, got off … Continue reading →

Old Socialist recalls “The Negro Family: The Case for National Action.” of March 1965! stephenkmacksd.com/ One of the advantiges of being almost eighty years of age, at least in my case, is that you can recall from memory, the political … Continue reading →