“I would remind you that extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, and let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.” – Barry Goldwater Agree?  I do!  Loved than man!  Let’s look at various forms of extremism.  Extreme meat haters are called ’veggies,’ and the […]

  You have to be pretty old to remember SNAFU.  Like me, maybe.  SNAFU was a WW II term, which meant “Situation normal, all F***ed up.”  Pretty accurate description of what’s going on now, isn’t it?  With the tungsten 400 oz gold bars, as an example.  There are a lot of them out there, and […]

  Iceland is a mess.  Total mess.  Bankrupt, and its currency, the krona, has been abandoned by most people in the world. In Iceland, it’s lost two thirds of its former value and purchasing power.  Iceland is a nation that throughout its long history of 1100 years has been extremely poor, depending on fishing for […]

                             (This is a day early, since I am back a day early from my week’s vacation.) It seems as though history continues to repeat itself.  During the first ’great depression,’ Herbert Hoover was President at the outset.  He instigated the things FDR would later enlarge upon, none of which worked.  Now we are […]