Author: mike

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Neither Holy, Nor Roman, Nor an Empire

Into the EU, the Germans brought not only their rapidly recovering economy but also much of their premodern political culture, especially a preoccupation with legality, interminable debate and due process, so that the EU...

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Tyrion Style FTW!

Finally my nose is growing back! Dead skin sloughing appears complete. New skin emerging via secondary intention and EPICALLY GROSS. Looking forward to Tyrion Style FTW!

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Post-Post-Modern Capitalism

Finance is to our stagnant societies what the space race and the Cold War were to the Eastern Bloc countries of the 1970s and 80s – a huge cost that the state imposes on...

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Borne Back Ceaselessly

So there’s a new Gatsby movie, full of crap fast-cut song-and-dance scenes ala Moulin Rouge. I like the way the director, Baz Luhrmann, is so very fakeGatsby when he says stuff like: Luhrmann is...

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Texas Bans Shooting Immigrants From Helicopters

Well it’s just not sporting is it? You’ve got to at least give them a fighting chance to run for it. Officials in Texas announced on Thursday that State Troopers would no longer be...

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Catatonia, FTW!

Just diagnosed catatonia in a patient who became unresponsive and got intubated, got a CT, then a CT stroke protocol, CT angio chest, MRI, spinal tap, continuous EEG, flagrantly extensive metabolic and infectious workup....