Over the weekend, amid populist howls of outrage that a bailout of SVB would promote moral hazard (in the end depositors did get bailed out with a full recovery, but other unsecured creditors oddly enough would get nothing, while the common stock is a doughnut), we said that while technically true, the events that toppled SVB and […]
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The Life Of Clyde Bellecourt (1936–2022)
January 30th, 2022 Awake Goy
Above Photo: Clyde Bellecourt speaking outside the Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, GA, 1974, American Indian Movement Interpretive Center. Damn Hard Work. Bellecourt And The American Indian Movement Taught Us That Colonizing Society Is Weak Because Of Its Sense Of Superiority. It Has God, Guns, And Gold, But Its Soft Underbelly Is Glory. I had short […]
Fakes and Controversy on the River Clyde: The Case of Dumbuck Crannog
February 7th, 2021 Awake Goy
In 1898 the eccentric artist and archaeology enthusiast William Donnelly (1847 – 1905) discovered the Dumbuck Crannog site on the banks of the River Clyde in Scotland. Its excavation proved fruitful, with the unearthing of 27 ancient stumps placed 7 feet (2.13 meters) apart to form a circular pattern, a 32-foot long (9.75 meters) dugout […]