Trump’s tariffs, trade wars, bombing “drug boats,” snatching Maduro, the Epstein files, inflation, affordability, flu epidemic, measles on the rise, brutal ICE enforcement, the Government Shut-down, incompetent Cabinet picks, retribution, and watching Trump doze off are just the tip of the dysfunctional world we live in now in 2026.
This blog seeks to be an oasis in the desert of dreadful social media and Internet scams. It’s the wit and wisdom of Patti, Jeff, Deb, Richard, Beth, Todd, Art, Willam, Maggie, Bob, Tracy, Carl, Lauren, Steve, Jerry, Wolf, Stan, Dan, Neeru, Michael, Byron, Elgin, Angela, Scott, Jim, John, Kevin, Randy, James, Kent, Fred, and Matthew as well as all of you who make this blog a part of your day that fuels the hope we can make it through another hellish year.
The year ahead with the Mid-term Election Season, the cancer of Dark Money influencing voters, the impact of Artificial Intelligence on unemployment, and the greedy impacts of The Big Beautiful Bill desperately needs your intelligent and rational comments. Together, we can make it through this nightmare.
Thank you, thank you very much.
George, we have to thank you so much for giving us a chance to have a look at this crazy world – from the direction of sanity!
I discovered your blog because of Science Fiction but since then I’ve been following you and you give me and the others too hope that the USA is still a leader in democracy.
Trump etc will be gone in a few years and the there’ll be a new start!
Wolf, thank you for your kind words. I think Great Minds think alike and we are fortunate to have several Great Minds weighing in on this blog regularly. You are one of them!
We can only hope, Wolf. Drumpf would like to be dictator for life, but that’s unlikely to be more than a few years as it is. Hope your country isn’t too swept up in reactionary nonsense again anytime soon.
“An oasis in the desert of dreadful social media” is a good way of describing it, George. Yours is the first site I open every morning. I’m never sure what you’ll be discussing, but I know your comments will be intelligent, logical, and measured. We can hardly ask for more these days.
Deb, we are all struggling to deal with a world in chaos. Military actions in South America (could it be the Venezuelan oil?), Americans going hungry while Trump builds his $300 million ballroom, people bonding with their Chatbots, prices increasing, and the ticking bomb on Climate Change. The world is an increasingly scary place…
I do try to make rational and intelligent comments, George. Therefore, I can definitely affirm that the state of your blog is New York.
Keep up the good work in 2026. Your blog is a beacon kin the darkness.
Jerry, your rational and intelligence comments continue to delight and amaze us! I’m looking forward to what you’re thinking in 2026!
Fuck, I just accidentally deleted my post. I was saying what also makes the blog so compelling is, you never know what you’re going to get from one day to the next. Bills’ games? Check. Review of a new Marvel animated TV show? Check. Terrible ’90s music compilations? Check. The latest Kelley appliance upgrade or a new coffee flavor? Check. Plus, of course, the book reviews of things we’d never read otherwise.
Keep up the great work.
Jeff, variety is the spice of Life. I try to shake things up and present some unexpected books, movies, and music CDs. Your comments always add detail and analysis to the conversation!
I congratulate you on being a safe, faithful and intelligent port in the storm we have become
Patti, although this blog sits in the Eye of Storm, I can still hear the howling winds! Thank you for you incisive opinions of books and movies!
2026 has not begun on a positive note, has it? But your blog is a delight as always, George. Happiness always.
Neeru, you’re right: 2026 will be a Rough Ride. But your comments always delight us! Happiness is illusive, but it shows up on the blog with some frequency thanks to you and the other commentators!
Thanks for the sanity of this blog. Larry has a bunch of people on Facebook who are avid tRUMP supporters and my blood pressure rises when I read the insults they make to anyone who supports sanity in government rather than grifting , sexual predators, and now warmongering idiots. It’s sad to be an American these days with what’s going on but you help with coping.
Maggie, the Trump cult continues to celebrate cruelty, incompetence, warmongering, grifts, scams, crypto schemes, and sexual shenanigans.
I would just block them.
Jackie
I did, but Larry hasn’t. His posts show a lot of comments but most are from the jerk I blocked so unless I look at his phone I don’t see them
Always something interesting on your blog, George.
It’s a pleasure to participate.
Beth, you always have something interesting to add to the blog! It’s a pleasure to have you and all the others participate in getting through all the current wackiness.
Things are going fine in my world! If you think we took out Madura for the oil, think again! It’ll take many years and millions of dollars to make that thick crude useable! The only grift I see is the Somalians in Minnesota robbing the US for billions for bogus, non-existent daycares and food programs! The only child predator in the white House is gone–Joe Biden! The ballroom at the White House won’t cost the taxpayers anything! I’m constantly amazed at how far out of their way some people will go to demonize Trump or the conservatives!
Bob, demons are everywhere!
Not nearly as far as Drumpf himself does.
Drumpf and the potential for embezzlement (one of his favorite things) with the Colombian crude oil: https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-emperors-new-oil-wealth
Todd, it’s all about the oil.
US thick crude processing plants: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/05/venezuelan-crude-oil-appeals-to-us-refineries
Venezuelan, rather than Colombian…I’ll plead the hour.
Todd, I knew what you were trying to say. I get goofy, too, late at night.
George, I am grateful that your entertaining, informational, and erudite blog is here, to brighten my days. This is a strange world we are living in now, and your blog is indeed an oasis of sanity.
Tracy, thank you for being part of this blog that seeks sanity in unstable times.
Congratulations on another year, George. I avoid social media like the plague it is and have abandoned most of the blogs and websites I used to read but I always pop in here every morning. Your intelligence and humanity are a rare quality these days. Thank you for providing a little light in these dark times. Best wishes for another year.
Byron, thanks for those kind words! Your presence on this blog adds to its light in these dark times.
George, very glad you have gathered so many friends and acquaintances to your blog for regular commentary, and have kept up the energy to do the task daily (I certainly haven’t).
And very glad you and your family seem to be doing well. May all this continue, even in these unnecessarily parlous times.
Todd, we live in dangerous times and the conversations on the blog help to dispel the manic craziness that afflicts us now. Your comments add to the sanity of the site!