Hammer Mill Days

Sure, it's hard to put out a podcast when you're sleeping in a potting shed. But hard shouldn't stop you when there's important work to be done. Unless it gets too hard. Then, well .... maybe you could do a blog post instead. Man ... that's roughing it. Well, you may have already noticed, but our August 2019 installment of THIS IS BIG GREEN was posted this week, and unlike our July episode, this one includes Matt and a non-retread episode of Ned Trek. So if you scratched over the last TIBG, don't miss this one. Here are some highlights: Ned Trek 40: Day of the Dopes. Amazingly, we've reached the fortieth episode of our Star Trek political parody space opera. This episode is adapted from the classic Star Trek script, "Day of the Dove", with not unexpected modifications and substitutions. Look for bad imitations of Bill and Hillary Clinton as well as other fripperies. Put The Phone Down. We talked another green streak this time out, touching...

Trump may well think there's something rotten in Denmark, but it's hard to know for sure. This past week's strange interlude about Greenland seems more like a textbook study in megalomania as it gradually unfolds. Where did Trump get this idea about buying this inhabited, now-melting glacial island from the Danes? The first story that I heard was that it was some Danish diplomat, but god only knows where that came from. The simple fact is, well, Trump is a simpleton; somebody told him that he could buy Greenland, and he believed whoever that was. In his tiny mind, everything is for sale - it's just a question of price. I'm thinking that as he saw the public reaction and it began to dawn on him how idiotic he looked, he did what proto-dictators always do - they bend every effort to make the world conform with their delusions. Trump doubled down on the claim, and suddenly there emerged some weird proposal about a kind of extended lease, which is essentially what th...