Broad Oak Magazine

Updating last year's speculation : 1914 1939 1964-ish (young v. old) 1989 - the crumbling of communism 2014 - what James Kunstler des...

The above clip is from a child's game called Raft Wars 2. As with the original, cute little characters (including a baby) bravely bat...

Extirpation with fire and sword (pic source) "A woodcut in a broadside of 1643 shows the Puritan nightmare, a body politic mde up of ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children's_Games_(Bruegel )# In Philip K Dick's " Minority Report " anthology there is a...

I haven't the time - or resources - to explore this fully, but there does seems to be plenty to find about a nexus of Marxists and revol...

Two (among others) good links from Credit Writedowns : "On April 17, 2007, famed short-seller Jim Chanos and other hedge fund managers ...

I've said more than once that the housing market is segmented geographically and by price bracket, so discussion of house price movement...

The dethroning of the US dollar as the international trading currency is under way. New bonds issued by the International Monetary Fund in t...

Lots of people now muttering darkly. But if we think we know what They are up to , and think we can't thwart Them, there should be some ...

See here . Back in November , I figured that inflation-adjusted Dow took 16 years to decline from 1966 to 1982, and my guess is that we...

Every morning, a blackbird in our neighbourhood starts to sing. It begins with two distinctive melodies, and then (like Eric Clapton in his ...

Jim Fedako argues that the point of democracy is not to serve the people, but to allow ousted leaders to lose their jobs while keeping their...

We are in one of those “generational revolutions” that Jefferson said were as important as anything else to the proper functioning of our de...

In a recent post, "Paddington" compared us with our forefathers, to our detriment . Now, Jeffrey R. Nyquist does the same: We thin...

We attended the memorial service for a friend yesterday, and the following quotation (Acts, Chap. 2, vv. 44-47 - King James version) was inc...

This Parliament has now lost all moral and political authority and ought, by rights, to dissolve itself. It is now not only the Government t...

You feel the change of weather before you see the clouds. The tone is changing. It's getting darker, angrier. If you follow Cranmer , or...

It begins, but so much sooner than I expected. A panicky middle class moves from worrying about its bank account, to railing against those r...

"What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing," says Lord Darlington in Wilde's Lady Win...

"Ryan" makes reference in a comment on my previous post, to the "Gramscian left". I was too busy in the 70s, trying to g...