Real estate’s new ‘hack’

August 16, 2023 Halfway there! Janet Yellen’s trip to China was almost a trip after the Treasury Secretary inadvertently ate hallucinogenic mushrooms at a popular Chinese restaurant. (Yellen said she didn’t feel any effects from the magic mushrooms, as properly cooking the fungi kills the psychedelic properties.) In […]

Startups set to hit it big

August 15, 2023 Hey there! Having a tattoo artist work at your wedding is the latest debate the internet is torn over. Speaking of outside-the-box thinking, at least one VC firm is trying to leverage AI to help it suss out early-stage startups bound for success. More on […]

Robbie Robertson

Sponsored by Harvard University Press Fifty-four years ago today Richie Havens, substituting for the band Sweetwater, who were stuck in traffic, opened the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. While The New York Review of Books did not send a correspondent to the muddy dairy farm in Bethel, New […]

The Truth About Bidenomics

August 15 2023 The Truth About Bidenomics COMMENTARY By David Harsanyi Biden was given more economic headroom than any president in history—and blew it. More LAST LAUGH? Hillary Clinton Responds to News of Trump’s Latest Indictment NEWS By Tyler O’Neil “All over the country right now, people are […]

‘Riverdale’ Is Ready to Graduate

When Riverdale premiered in 2017, everyone who watched the show focused on the sex — not only between Archie Comics’ canonical teen characters, but also between Archie and now-hot Miss Grundy. A teacher-student romance? Angsty Jughead? Closeted Moose? Riverdale sounded like it would be just a dark reimagining […]

The dumb Trump indictments

By Tom Woods If you’re like me, part of your brain thinks: surely most people can perceive the partisan nature of the “indictments” against Donald Trump — imagine thinking these bits of nothingness are the worst thing any president has ever done! — and they won’t be so […]

8/15/23: Maui Death Toll Rises To 96, Hunter Special Counsel A Cover Up?, Increasing Suicide Deaths, Bill Maher Spars w/ Marianne Williamson, Kentucky AI Bus Disaster, New Ukraine Aid

Krystal and Saagar discuss the Maui wildfire disaster death count up to 96 people as searchers for missing continue, Maui residents worry that their rebuilt town will favor the wealthy, is the Hunter Biden special counsel a cover up?, an increasing number of Suicide deaths per year, Bill […]

Niger May be the Next US Proxy War

MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 2023 Of all our government’s colossally bad ideas, the War on Drugs has stood out for its horrific disruption of the family unit, destabilization of whole communities, devastation of millions of lives, and utter inability to curb addiction in any meaningful way. – Hannah Cox, […]

The memeification of WeWork

August 14, 2023 Welcome back! Mondays are tough, but hopefully photos from the annual Comedy Pet Photography Awards can help you out. As for today’s big story, we’re talking about two things you might have forgotten about: WeWork and meme stocks.   What’s on deck: Markets: Goldman’s ex-CEO […]

8/14/23: DeSantis Humiliated At Iowa Fair, Maui Residents Outraged At Disaster Relief, Trump Legal Team Texts, UPS Drives 170k Salary, Auto Exec Caught Vacationing, Viral Rich Men North of Richmond Song, SBF Jailed, SF Workers Flee, Kansas Cops Raid Newspaper

Krystal and Saagar discuss DeSantis humiliated by Trump fans at the Iowa fair, Semafor reporter Shelby Talcott (@ShelbyTalcott) breaks down all the events on the scene at the Iowa Fair, Maui Residents outraged at Biden disaster relief, Trump’s legal team caught with texts about election tampering in Georgia, […]

Native American group threatens boycott if Washington NFL team doesn’t change its name back to ‘Redskins’

By John Clark WASHINGTON (WTVO) — The Native American Guardians Association has threatened an “Anheuser Busch (Bud Light)”-style boycott, demanding the Washington Commanders change the team name back to “Redskins.” The letter claims the Commanders are in willful denial of U.S. history and the Native American components of […]

Round-Table #87: “Why America will Have its French Revolution” a review

I will be joined by Keith Preston, Swithun Dobson and Terminal Philosophy to do another review of an insightful video by WhatIfAltHist: https://www.youtube.com/@WhatifAltHis…. He recently did a video entitled Why America will Have its French Revolution”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yuZp…. Tune in for a great show! My contact info: Locals: https://praiseoffolly.locals.com/ […]