Yet I have a trick Of the old rage. Bear with me, I am sick; I’ll leave it by degrees. Soft, let us see: Write ‘Lord have mercy on us’ on those three. They are infected; in their hearts it lies; They have the plague, and caught it of your eyes. These lords are visited; […]

A Plague on all your houses

• When The Boss Needs Someone To BlameApril 2, 2026
  Why Did Trump Fire Pam Bondi And Throw Caroline Leavitt Under The Bus? There is a pattern in how Donald Trump manages people, and it has nothing to do with performance. It has everything to do with polls. On March 31, standing in the Oval Office, Trump complained to reporters that he was receiving “93% bad publicity.” Rather than consider that the publicity might reflect …
• The Rising Ledger Volume III: At The Brink of World War 3 Issues #51 to #65March 31, 2026
  Issue #51: The Strait Is The Global Food Chain One-fifth of globally traded oil moved1 through the Strait of Hormuz every day. Twenty-two percent of global LNG. Qatar’s Ras Laffan facility which is the source of roughly 20 percent of global LNG exports was struck by Iranian drones and shut down production at the start of the 2026 Iran War. Marine insurance premiums are still …
• The Nuclear Surveillance Architecture is GoneMarch 31, 2026
  Arms control doesn’t just mean treaties. It means inspections. Verification. Satellites watching missile silos. Inspectors counting warheads. Communication channels between adversaries so that a radar malfunction doesn’t get interpreted as an incoming strike. The 1983 Soviet satellite false alarm nearly ended the world. A Soviet officer named Stanislav Petrov chose not to report what his instruments showed as an incoming American first strike, and he …