Seems to be a logical step putting one’s home up on stilts to avoid flooding and save the biggest investment most of us will ever have, our house. We all see that private property on flood plains is threatened. Looking at the example in the cover photo draws one into considerations bothContinue Reading
“In Canada, the evidence is that increasingly a larger fraction of income to corporations is related to excessive profits. Lower tax rates encourage firms to engage in more excessive profit seeking. You have greater incentives to create more monopoly power, to lobby (the government), because you get to keep aContinue Reading
(It’s Thursday night and Beto O’Rourke is trying to manage a couple of life-altering and possibly world-historical political events while also driving his family home from a Mexican restaurant. Donald Trump will touch down in O’Rourke’s hometown of El Paso in four days to hold a rally and whip upContinue Reading
Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani is an OG who is handling the closing chapter very, very, very badly. His Ex hands over some folded dirty linen in an interview … (To the accusation that the wedding was held at Gracie Mansion because Judith said that she wanted to “fuck over” Donna forContinue Reading
A Munich-based architecture practice has written an open letter to the queen, asking that she consider sharing her palace with those less fortunate.Continue Reading
In my google search for an image for this article I got a series of photo’s of streets in Cork, Ireland. So I went with that. The structure featured in the article might frighten the neighbours after a few years but it is only cosmetic. https://www.dezeen.com/2018/12/20/bark-studio-cork-studio-recyclable-building-sustainable-architecture/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Dezeen&utm_content=Daily%20Dezeen+CID_7cc8ea51bb2d22edfe83483263e90d8d&utm_source=Dezeen%20Mail&utm_term=Studio%20Bark%20buildsContinue Reading
The author of a book review at the link below is Verlyn Klinkenborg who is a non fiction writer who has published widely on the subject of farming. He teaches creative writing at Yale and owns a small farm in upstate New York. He reviews four recent books focusing onContinue Reading
this article out of the UK highlights the growing industry of privatized military and political propaganda ‘Britain has lost most of its geographical empire. And most of our modern politics is about the ways in which different groups struggle to come to terms with that fact. For a large portion of theContinue Reading
I thought I’d indulge myself by starting a new thread. I’ve been reading J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy and I couldn’t resist but share a few pages. It’s an interesting moment in a fairly graphic narrative memoir…..Continue Reading