Railroaded Into Debt
Posted on 22. Jul, 2012 by Theodore Roe in Analysis, Current Events
California is nearly 400 billion dollars in debt. The lukewarm sense of hope following the contentious fight to wrap up the yearly state budget is tempered by the knowledge that the agreement requires the public to ok a referendum temporarily raising taxes by 8 billion dollars. Social services, health programs, the education system, the court [...]
Theo’s Twit Of The Week: The Eurozone Edition
Posted on 10. Jun, 2012 by Theodore Roe in Current Events, Politics
No matter how much lipstick you smear on these sows, the PIIGS aren’t getting any prettier… or less expensive. Any conversation about which is the ugliest (though certainly not fattest) of these ungulates leads us to Greece. And this week, whenever the topic of the Grexit comes up, it is difficult to avoid the name [...]
Theo’s Twit Of The Week: Dmitry Medvedev
Posted on 27. Nov, 2011 by Theodore Roe in Current Events
This week’s Twit must have slipped into a time machine set for October of 1962, because he thinks a Russian threat of a missile strike might intimidate the United States. It’s time to don your party pins and join in the stupidity of: Dmitry Medvedev Every now and then, it seems like Russia forgets exactly [...]
The Rise Of The Greeks
Posted on 16. Sep, 2011 by Alex Sharp in Current Events, History
Alexander III of Macedon, known to history as Alexander the Great, took the disorganized city-states of Greece and forged them into the backbone of one of the largest empires of the ancient era. He brought the civilizations from the glittering Ionian Sea to to the rough mountains of the Himalayas under the heel of his [...]
Theo’s Twit(s) Of The Week: The Chicago Cubs
Posted on 18. Jun, 2011 by Theodore Roe in Current Events
Today the Twit is a collective entity! No, it isn’t The Borg, it is: The Chicago Cubs There’s nothing like fighting a losing season with voodoo! In order to play off the fact that they are having (yet again) a losing season, some of the Cubs players decided to print up t-shirts that have a [...]
When The Going Gets Tough…
Posted on 20. Mar, 2011 by Theodore Roe in Current Events
On this, the second day of Operation Odyssey Dawn (or Ellamy, or MOBILE, or Harmattan depending on which country your news anchor currently sits in) there are already people who, after talking the talk, cannot walk the walk. The Arab League, an organization of fine, upstanding men who are ever so absorbed in the constant [...]
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