by Dan | Oct 9, 2017 | Uncategorized
Hello there, gentle readers. It’s me, Mr. Not-An-Economist, with some historical context on the current state of Wall Street and “economic growth.” Following the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, the U.S. economy began a slow, painful...
by Dan | Oct 4, 2017 | Blog, Random Xarking
Quick story: I remember this one day during the final weeks of Basic Training at Fort Knox in February 1985: We rolled up to our barracks after a long, exhausting day of training only to find some frantic drill sergeant screaming that the Training Battalion’s...
by Dan | Oct 3, 2017 | Blog, Random Xarking
This is just trivia, really: When I used to teach “Threat Weapons” and AK familiarization classes in Germany, our curriculum said that the Russian AK 47 had a maximum effective range of 300 meters (that’s about 330 yards) on semi-auto. On full-auto,...
by Dan | Sep 18, 2017 | Blog, Random Xarking
Dear Sen. Graham: I have written to you numerous times since January. Sometimes I’ve encouraged you to vote a particular way. Sometimes I have written to praise you for a particular stance or action. Today I write to express my utter disgust with your alleged...
by Dan | Sep 12, 2017 | Random Xarking
Josh Marshall, founder of Talking Points Memo, is both a personal favorite and a ridiculously productive writer. The downside of being that prolific is that from time to time you post some duds. Yesterday’s column, “More Thoughts on the Intra-Democratic...
