In January 1959, ten experienced Russian hikers from the Ural Polytechnical Institute – eight men, two women – set out for a research trip in the Ural Mountains, which serve as a type of border between Europe and Asia, to a frozen area of the Siberian wilderness known by the locals as “Dead Mountain.” One …
Category: Gub’mnt
taxes, court interdictions, gen. yuckery
Totally Mad, Full Crazy, & a Lil’ Bit Insane
The other day me/myself/I were discussing our debt monkey – that Gorilla of Foolishness swollen to $225K – and we all came to the unilateral decision that it is not real. Nope. Not a thing. Because if it were real then we would care. Instead, debt is just numbers on a screen or paper rectangles …
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The Social Contract is a Hit
You’re dating yourself … but remember (no) back in the 90’s when Newt Gringrich (yes if you are young that is a name) and the Republicans crafted that “Contract with America,” and how almost immediately the joke (a primitive meeemmm) became “Contract on America,” and funnily enough, that’s just about what it turned out to …
the Tao of Half
Save a little. Spend a little. Shelter a little from the storm. Somewhere amongst and amidst these pages I mentioned that both Half and I are products of divorce, and also that Half’s money marriage is loving and supportive, with a debt monkey trained extremely well. As a matter of fact, Half’s debt monkey is …