Our garden gave us carrots that don’t look like what you’ll find at the grocery store.

Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, and Debt:

Mt. Gox trustee sets registration deadline of Jan. 10 for repayment selection

Global economy sailing into a ‘perfect long storm’

What the Black Plague Can Teach Us About Today’s Jobs Report

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

Few Americans get new covid booster shot ahead of projected winter surge

Canada’s main covid legacy? Right-wing populism.

Politics:

Massive Blast Cripples Crimea-Russia Bridge

Mark Finchem says Google and the ‘deep state’ are blocking his campaign site. The truth is simpler — and implicates his own team.

Herschel Walker Urged Woman to Have Second Abortion

The GOP Is Herschel Walker

There are times, I confess, when I decide to pass on writing another column on how degenerate the Republican Party is. What else is there to say? It’s not as if the entire media class isn’t saying it every hour of every day. And it’s not as if the depravity of the party hasn’t been a longtime hobbyhorse of mine. Unlike most of the Never-Trumper set, I was writing about this derangement on the right in the 1990s. I tore into George W. Bush’s spend, borrow and torture policies. I wrote a book on what I thought conservatism really was in 2006 — and why the GOP was its nemesis. I couldn’t have been clearer about what Palin represented — even as Bill Kristol selected her to be a potential president.
But then you come across the Senate candidacy of one Herschel Walker, and, well, words fail. No magical realist fiction writer could come up with something so sickeningly absurd.

Justice Department Asking if Trump Stashed Documents in Trump Tower

Federal investigators have asked multiple witnesses if they knew whether Donald Trump had stashed any highly sensitive government documents at Trump Tower in Manhattan or at his private club in Bedminster, New Jersey.

Is the FBI going to execute more search warrants? Pass the popcorn!

Michael Flynn’s Roadshow Recruits ‘Army of God’

Duncan: We didn’t ask who was the best leader. We didn’t ask who had the best resume. Unfortunately, Republicans looked around to see who Trump supported and he was a famous football player and so he became our nominee and now we’re paying the price pic.twitter.com/ddaISLpyZ1

— Acyn (@Acyn) October 7, 2022

Putin’s dream of Russian victory slips away in Ukraine

Republicans Scramble for ‘Socialist’ Infrastructure Funds

Last November, GOP Rep. Tom Emmer of Minnesota released a statement slamming the passage of the freshly approved infrastructure law he referred to as “President Biden’s multi-trillion dollar socialist wish list.”
Then in June, Emmer – the House Republican campaign chairman leading attacks on Democrats for supporting the law – quietly submitted a wish of his own.
Emmer’s plea is one of dozens obtained by CNN in response to a public records request.

People in Poland are burning garbage, and Romania is capping firewood prices as desperation grows amid Europe’s energy crisis

Trump Wants To Clear Out The National Archives If He Wins In 2024

If Donald Trump ever grows tired of being faux-bashful about 2024 and actually announces he’s running, we know what at least one item on his agenda will be: purging the “woke and broken” National Archives.
It’s obvious why he wants to clear out the agency that’s not only nonpartisan, but also tasked with the very wholesome goal of preserving history — it dared to tell him he can’t play finders-keepers with government records.

Russian Infighting Peaks With Calls for Suicide and Execution

GOP Senators Bailed Out Trump During 1st Impeachment

Republican senators were more deeply involved in orchestrating President Donald Trump’s defense in his first impeachment trial than previously known…
Publicly, many GOP senators refrained from commenting on the substance of the proceedings, telling reporters doing so would be inappropriate because of their responsibility to remain neutral as jurors. But privately, the ineptitude of Trump’s legal team forced them to take matters into their own hands.

Man in Whitmer Kidnapping Plot Sentenced to Four Years

Kremlin, shifting blame for war failures, axes military commanders

The latest, Alexander Chaiko, is a “Colonel General”, the U.S. equivalent being a DoD Pay Grade O-9 (three-star) Lieutenant General. The U.S. Army currently has only 49 officers of that rank, no idea how many the Russian Army has.

Why Putin Made Peace With the Soviets’ Arch Enemies

Why defunding IRS auditors won’t be easy GOP promise to keep

Serendipity:

The alien shrub that can’t be stopped

Our Homo sapiens ancestors shared the world with Neanderthals, Denisovans and other types of humans whose DNA lives on in our genes

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