Monthly Archives: December 2021

All the News that Doesn’t Fit Anywhere, Jan. 21, 2025. Mexico Indicates Strong Desire to Join Chinese-Inter-Continental-American-Alliance (CHICAA). Says this is the way to end corruption in the country, and maybe even get more subsidies. U.S. deploys a bunch of troops along Mexican border. Withdraws some of them from time to time. Meanwhile fighting continues between American volunteers and Mexicans trying to cross into the U.S. The Minskico Accords are not working [see real Minsk Accords https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/what-are-minsk-agreements-ukraine-conflict-2021-12-06/]. Mexico announces that it will no longer buy guns from the U.S.; Chinese ones work pretty well. President deSantis [hello, a Spanish name!] is pissed and has relayed a set of demands to the Mexicans. Number 1: straighten out your marketing and distribution of street drugs to us. You are being way too sloppy, and sometimes the drugs get spilled or are too easy for our border patrol to find. That causes problems for our users. Number 2: stop sending cheap labor into the U.S. We will do our own roofing from now on. Number 3: clean up your petty part of the Colorado River, which is filled with old tires and stinks; in return, we will let a little water into it (if we have any left in our part). Number 4: your soap operas suck–I mean really, take back Dark Desire and Ingobernable–they are in Spanish, for crying out loud. We hate subtitles.

Posted on December 30, 2021 by thurstrw

U.S. Press Secretary Blondie 2 has announced that American military forays abroad have only been in areas right next to the U.S. and where people speak American English or have indicated a strong desire to be taken care of by … Continue reading →

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Coffee and Health

Posted on December 22, 2021 by thurstrw

Here is a new article by me in Roast magazine, one of the top coffee trade magazines. The piece should be of general interest. Unless you have particularly high blood pressure already or some other medical issue that might be … Continue reading →

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War in Ukraine: Analysis, A Simple Way to Say No

Posted on December 10, 2021 by thurstrw

I will say first that I enjoyed my time in Ukraine; several visits and a stay of several months from 1978 through 2008. I liked the country and the people, and I wish them all the best. But . . … Continue reading →

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