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CANTO TALK podcasts from last week

Silvio Canto, Jr.
10/11/2026 7:00:00 AM

    Check the shows from last week.    P.S.  Check out my blog for posts, podcasts and videos. If you like our posts, please look for Donate on the right column of the blog page.   

Bob Gibson was made for October

Silvio Canto, Jr.
10/11/2026 7:52:00 AM

            Bob Gibson was made for October: The Brewers and Dodgers will start the NL League Championship Series tonight. Im sure that Milwaukee wants revenge.------------------------------The Brewers and Dodgers will start the NL League Championship Series on Sunday night.  It should be a great series.  Im sure that Milwaukee wants revenge for getting swept in 2025 and sending Los Angeles to the World Series again.    Every October, Im reminded of those times when we ran home to watch the game or were thankful for a nice teacher who let us watch it in class. Back in October 1968, I ran home with my little transistor radio hoping to catch Game 1 of the World Series on[...]

Papal Bookend

K T Cat
10/8/2026 9:41:29 AM
The riots in France are the perfect bookend for the Pope's visit. He shows up and gets the royal treatment, his courtiers enjoy themselves in magnificent cathedrals and then everything goes to pieces.Church leadership enjoys the praise for being so compassionate and then return to their comfy homes while the laity fight off the migrants we were told to welcome.  More footage of the riots in ParisAnd I dont believe for a second that this is just about schools anymore...Writer: Solhttps://t.co/UnJDbnuVEi Mario Nawfal (MarioNawfal) October 6, 2026  I've said it before and I'll say it again. Where the hell are our fighters?  icbkr Oilfield_Rando Agreed, but are any of them directly making the case for Catholicism[...]

Where's The Offramp?

K T Cat
10/6/2026 3:09:06 PM
In jolly old England, things have gone from tense to tensor. Recently, a rubber dinghy full of military-aged African and Muslim men came ashore as they do on a regular basis. A fellow named Danny Tommo had organized a rowdy welcoming committee for them. Shouting, waving flags, but no violence. That is, until Danny went into the water after the men had disembarked and stabbed the thing to death.Now the dinghy was the property of the human traffickers. There was no one on board. Danny used his knife to make sure the human traffickers couldn't ever use it again. Danny is now in the express lane to jail. He's been arrested for property damage although just whose property, no one is really sure. His real crime was to defend[...]

Why does America keep winning?

W.C. Varones
12/12/2025 8:48:00 AM

X:          Yes. But also, America's abundance of natural resources and history of fortuitous developments kinda seems like God shed His grace on thee.        Capitalism and divine providence are like Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. 

Inflation is always and everywhere a progressive phenomenon

W.C. Varones
11/13/2025 9:31:17 AM
Excerpt from a text conversation with a young "democratic socialist":DS: Every time the US has become progressive, the right wing and the centrists said the policies were too unrealistic, but the civil rights movement still passed, and FDR is currently looked at as one of the best presidents of the past hundred yearsWC: Some times the right wing and the centrists are right. LBJ's Great Society has trapped millions in multigenerational welfare dependency. Obamacare has made health care unaffordable and is bankrupting both families and the US governmentLBJ's Great Society (and the Vietnam War) was what forced the US government to break the gold standard under Nixon, leading to all subsequent inflation crises. Inflation and all[...]

What Ails Us - But First Some Background

B-Daddy
4/6/2025 5:10:10 PM
Someone close to me asked me to give an overall take on the current state of politics and the prospects for our future. I thought to answer, but first want to explain how I analyze the political landscape.Here are some key principles that are worth repeating because we seem to forget them.1. A chicken is an eggs way of making another egg.      To influence the the size and numbers of your chickens, manage egg production and consumption. Demographics are destiny.2. Eggs are rare, sperm is plentiful.      Combined with 1 above, the most important variable component of demographic destiny is female reproductive behavior and strategies.3. Testosterone confers greater strength and aggression[...]

Bezos vs Burnham - Robber Baron vs Managers

B-Daddy
1/26/2022 8:32:44 PM
 Well not really; and not just because Burnham isn't a household name. James Burnham authored key insights on "managerialism" and predicted its eventual triumph over capitalism in his 1941 book "The Managerial Revolution," summarized here, but skip ahead 5 minutes (this is a great podcast). George Orwell provided this summary in 1943.Capitalism is disappearing, but Socialism is not replacing it. What is now arising is a new kind of planned, centralized society which will be neither capitalist nor, in any accepted sense of the word, democratic. The rulers of this new society will be the people who effectively control the means of production: that is, business executives, technicians, bureaucrats and soldiers,[...]

And Where a Salon Scribe Gets a Tad Out of His Swim Lane

Dean
11/11/2015 9:22:09 AM
Over the weekend, Salon writer, DAVID MASCIOTRA, caused quite a dust-up on social media with his own salute to the troops ahead of Veterans Day . Here is the headline, followed by the sub-headline and then followed by the first paragraph of the piece:You dont protect my freedom: Our childish insistence on calling soldiers heroes deadens real democracyIt's been 70 years since we fought a war about freedom. Forced troop worship and compulsory patriotism must endPut a man in uniform, preferably a white man, give him a gun, and Americans will worship him. It is a particularly childish trait, of a childlike culture, that insists on anointing all active military members and police officers as heroes.If you desire, you can read it[...]

Football rules changes...? You've come to the right place

Dean
1/31/2015 2:04:56 PM

    Theres no denying that over the last few decades most all on-field rules changes made by the NFL have been exercises in increasing offense and scoring. This has created an arms race in a sense where the pendulum swings back and forth between the NFL offenses and NFL defenses whereby the offenses get aided by rules changes and the defenses counter with a combination of innovative schemes and superior athletes. To wit, for years, its been conventional wisdom that the best athletes in the world were in the NBA. Now days, we would add NFL defensive backs and possibly outside linebackers/rush ends into that mix (you dont think dudes like Richard Sherman, Darrelle Revis and J.J. Watt can ball a little?).But[...]

Margaret Hamilton, Pioneering Software Engineer Behind Apollos Success, Dies at 90 

Leslie Eastman

The best memorial is a renewed commitment to the competence, testing, and engineering discipline that made her work consequential.The post Margaret Hamilton, Pioneering Software Engineer Behind Apollos Success, Dies at 90 first appeared on Legal Insurrection.

Powerful 7.7 Earthquake Strikes Panama, Followed by Magnitude 6.6 Shaker 

Leslie Eastman

Panama Joins 2026s Growing Roster of Major Earthquakes.The post Powerful 7.7 Earthquake Strikes Panama, Followed by Magnitude 6.6 Shaker first appeared on Legal Insurrection.