With the uncorrupted version of those words, Coleridge ushered in modern poetry and started British Romanticism. I’m not sure what the droughts in Brazil and the American Southwest will usher in, but I hope that these droughts will cause our federal government to emplace a life-sustaining resource policy with a broad impact…. I’ve mentioned before that humans …
Continue reading Water, Water, Nowhere, Steal a Drop to DrinkKnolan’s Knonsense
There are, in the physical universe the we occupy, certain things the government needs to show with evidence in order for the government to properly bring a case to the Foreign Intelligence Service Act court, the FISA court. The FISA court is the one that Snowden brought to light, and is where the NSA is granted secret …
Continue reading Hey Rule of Law, Say Hello To My Little Friend“Financial markets in the United States are the largest and most liquid in the world.” Which makes sense. After becoming back-to-back World War Champs, America set up the system of international finance that endures to this day. Except that we’re no longer on the gold standard (this is an argument for another piece). You would think …
Continue reading We’re too big to fail, so you’re too small for us to careTim Cook has released the Watch. Did you notice he didn’t release the iWatch? I did, it’s the first product since iMac in June of 1998 to drop the “i-” prefix, save the MacBook, Mac Pro, and mac mini. I think it’s reasonable to ignore those three, because, until the Watch, the entirety of Apple’s …
Continue reading crApple’s iWatchA bit more than a month ago, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in T-Mobile South, LLC v City of Roswell. The rule of law is accredited doubly: when denying cell phone towers, localities must provide “reasons” for the the tower was denied, reasons which are “simply clear enough to enable judicial review”; and that …
Continue reading “For those who consider legislative history relevant…”I refuse to pay Comcast $100/month so they can sell advertising. Which means I don’t have cable. But fear not, readers. I have the internet on (I just counted) no less than a dozen devices which will tell me that one starlet wore it worse than the other and another starlet is suing FOX News …
Continue reading The Winter of His DisengagementSince the twin towers well fell, there has been talk of unseating the US dollar as the reserve currency. With the election of Syriza, a far-left populist party led by Alexis Tsipras, and Mr Tsipras’ swearing in as prime minister,the Euro as a currency is a tenuous proposition. China has managed to furl the …
Continue reading Knolan’s Knonsense – Regulate the RegulatorsWikiLeaks, and oh who am I kidding. Unless you haven’t had access to the internet since 2006, you already have an opinion on WikiLeaks, Assange, and the PFC formerly known as Bradley Manning. Which is important for what this filing is about. Once we form opinions, we generally don’t question ourselves. This is a …
Continue reading Knolan’s Knonsense – The Trans-Pacific PartnershipHappy New Year, America. And all you other countries, too. This posting introduces a new format for this column; please do excuse the length and plow on though to the end. Firstly, my apologies. That greeting was quite rude to all you other countries (even the phrasing, “all you other countries” is pejorative and …
Continue reading Knolan’s Knonsense: A New EnergyDemand for oil grew has recently grown at the slowest rate since 2009, to 92.7m bbl/day, half of the increase projected. Oil prices per barrel fall to four year low of $83.37 at the London MEX, and a two year low of $80.01 at the New York MEX. Things have gotten weird. OPEC upped …
Continue reading Knolan’s Knonsense – The Art of Oil War