After The Gold Rush

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  April 15th at 02:00 PM  | 

If I were an underemployed and thoroughly self-entitled crank, I could write three Volumes of horrendously lugubrious prose and describe it as my theory of life, the universe and everything.* When not earnestly engaged with inseminating his domestic help, an underemployed and thoroughly self-entitled crank named Karl Marx did exactly that. He called this Volumes I – III of Kapital. Natter on for over 2,000 pages, and even a guy like Marx will bury an occasional intellectual ruby beneath the copious mounds of pony-poop.

In light of the “Gold-Apocalypse” occurring today on Wall Street, Marx’s plaint regarding Commodity Fetishism may well be worth donning a protective mask and digging out. It could as an explanation for why my full-bodied monies recovered from the 16th Century Spanish Galion just aren’t all that valuable any more.**

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Obama Jumped the Shark by So Far That He Landed to Karl Marx’s Left

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  September 30th at 12:00 PM  | 

“In each variant of Socialism that appeared from about 1900 onwards the aim of establishing liberty and equality was more and more openly abandoned. The new movements which appeared in the middle years of the century . . . had the conscious aim of perpetuating unfreedom and inequality”; because the true goal was to end history upon becoming the perpetual High ruling class — composed | Read More »

Barackside (An Oldie, But A Goodie)

By: TobyToons (Diary)  |  April 20th at 08:00 AM  | 

I first created (with the help of my son) and posted this cartoon on June 6th, 2009 and wow, it has been the most popular cartoon I’ve done (gathering 7000 hits to date). It has even been sent back to me in chain emails. For some reason though, people think it was created in Scotland. It wasn’t, but yes, I’m sure the world IS still | Read More »