The United States has been an empire in decline for many years now, perhaps not necessarily because they are in decline but because other powers (China mostly) have been rapidly catching them and ove… (View Post)

As someone involved in both auditing and (more recently) anti-money laundering, the amount of banal, inane questions filled in with an answer is both astronomical and disheartening. Who do people thi… (View Post)

Over on my other forum I read (*cough AccountingWeb* cough - what was Leon just saying about us saddos posting here?) the prevaling thought is that this is a dick move. Three months, everyone will ge… (View Post)

And one thing that does not matter in this brave new world of gangster states and gangster leaders, are the thousands and thousands of people who will be directly slaughtered by the United States and… (View Post)

Just got back from seeing 'The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher' at the Liverpool Everyman. Wasn't disappointed. (View Post)