this is an adventure

“When the Berlin Wall collapsed, we saw the bankruptcy of both authoritarian politics and an economics of extensive ownership of the means of production and central planning. We saw a wasteland. When Wall Street and Main Street were shaken by crisis, however, we witnessed merely a pause in prosperity, not a devastation of it.”

“What is crucial, they say, is the long-term trend in global temperatures,” which is of course up. But “to confuse the issue even further, last month Mojib Latif, a member of the IPCC says that we may indeed be in a period of cooling worldwide temperatures that could last another 10-20 years.”

“About 30% of foreclosures in June involved homes in the top third of local housing values, up from 16% when the foreclosure crisis began three years ago… The bottom one-third of housing markets, by home value, now account for 35% of foreclosures, down from 55% in 2006.”

“It is otherworldly and in fact dangerous in national security matters to confuse emotions with reality,” writes John Bolton. “What, for example, what will be the world’s reaction if he agrees to his military commanders’ request to increase American forces in Afghanistan by 40,000 troops? What will be the reaction here if he does not?”