Crisis Times

America’s last frantic orgy or sprawl-building is over.

| May 17, 2012

US health care is unreformable. Like other things in Racket Nation, it simply has to implode.

| Mar 26, 2012

I go from a low-fat diet back to those verboten things again.

| Mar 20, 2012

The forty-year Sunbelt boom dwindles. Fear of approaching darkness grips the people.

| Feb 20, 2012

At Superbowl, America wears its zeitgeist plastered right on its sweaty forehead.

| Feb 6, 2012

I’ve had enough of Obama. I won’t vote for him again.

| Jan 30, 2012

Your grandchildren, grooming their mules in the summer twilight.

| Jan 2, 2012

Reality is a harsh mistress. Politics, on the other hand, is more like stage magic.

| Dec 14, 2011

2012 looks like a horror show in the making. The way world money matters are lining up, a debacle seems unavoidable.

| Oct 18, 2011

The essence of their argument is simple: someone ran their society into a ditch.

| Oct 6, 2011

Signs point to a mega-Lehman moment, when trust has fled and nobody will lend to anybody and business cannot continue.

| Sep 26, 2011

Obama can pretend to keep the old way going, but that pretense will be along the same lines as keeping insolvent banks going.

| Sep 6, 2011