Apocalypse

Well, you join me this week as I suspend all my usual activities ― writing, parenting, dealing with emails begging me to “review the experience” of buying some fuse wire on Amazon ― in order to start stockpiling caches of disposable…

By now, everyone in America is aware (or at least should be aware) that the U.S. national debt and interest expense on that debt are both exploding. Much has been written in the financial press warning that debt and…

Don’t look now — but we are currently experiencing a rash of stories about a forthcoming global catastrophe. But in a change from reports of pandemics and climate change, this global catastrophe is produced by the impact of a giant…

Strange and foreboding orange skies and a layer of falling ash greeted Bay Area residents as they woke on Wednesday, rubbing their eyes and wondering if they’d awoken on a different planet — and pondering just how long the daylight…