by Steven J. Manning | December 10, 2025 | Finger On the Pulse
Just when you thought politics in the US could not get uglier, while the Dems. and Republicans are in their perpetual, entirely undignified/despicable fight for political power, 42 million people stopped receiving SNAP benefits. That is FOOD-STAMPS, people! 1.2...
by Steven J. Manning | December 10, 2025 | Finger On the Pulse
Bears repeating: Where does an 800 pounds Bengal tiger sleep? Anywhere it wants to! This is a comment on the mighty economic sledgehammer that is the U.S. economy. And the entire faux tariffs warfare waged by the E.U. and essentially all rest of the word. But for the...
by Steven J. Manning | December 10, 2025 | Finger On the Pulse
Where does an 800 pounds Bengal tiger sleep? Anywhere it wants to! This is a comment on the mighty economic sledgehammer that is the U.S. economy. And the entire faux tariffs warfare waged by the EU and essentially all rest of the word. But for the massive value of...
by Steven J. Manning | December 10, 2025 | Finger On the Pulse
My mind is a cacophony of unanswered questions. So much on my mind that I need clarity on. Someone explain all this to me. Some examples of intellectual juxtapositions I explore in my book, [Like] EXPLAINING BITCOIN TO BUDDHIST MONKS. Jeans, jeans and more jeans. Not...
by Steven J. Manning | December 10, 2025 | Finger On the Pulse
No, I am not getting paid to pitch this to you. If reading this, Phil, I really should be. If this big (uncomfortably “small”) world of ours intrigues, challenges, puzzles, scares, inspires, confounds, amazes, infuriates (or whatever) you, I urge you add Phil...
by Steven J. Manning | December 10, 2025 | Finger On the Pulse
I (Manning) heard that Al Gore was spotted buying a heavy Irish wool sweater. Yes, this is a comment on the Antarctic ice cap NOT shrinking. On the contrary. If every “AI machine” gets turned on simultaneously, your TV will dim, and your food will spoil in your...
by Steven J. Manning | December 10, 2025 | Finger On the Pulse
“Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water…” Great line associated with Steven Spielberg’s famous movie, JAWS. Just when we think it is OK to go to sleep with the belief that the world will have changed for the better by the time we wake, the world,...
by Steven J. Manning | December 10, 2025 | Finger On the Pulse
Likely many readers have seen the “Tesla Takedown” nationwide protests March 29th. Exceptionally well organized, displaying great planning and coordination, and very well executed violent actions by many “protesters.” Five hundred locations including four hundred...
by Steven J. Manning | December 10, 2025 | Finger On the Pulse
Top of mind, in no particular order… “So much stuff (So Little Time).” – John Noir Smith, 2021. Keeping in mind the afore quoted, some “kinda” one-liners and one “multi-liner…” Immigration crises in the Americas (watch out Canada), Europe and elsewhere continue...
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