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Sonic Doom Podcast #4.1 – Jarred McCormick is a Jerk
Drew and Mike (mostly Drew) discuss what a jerk Jarred McCormick is really. Listen in as Drew launches into a verbal tirade against this local business owner as part of his “one man war” to exact revenge for his dismissal. Find out more about the situation on Drew’s Facebook Group Jarred McCormick is a Jerk.
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My name is Mike Mayberry. I live in a roomy Oldsmobile parked somewhere in Springfield, IL. I started this website to put my ideas out there in the ether. I am now using this site to piece together my thoughts on the national debt and to publish the Sonic Doom Podcast (don't worry I won't bore podcast listeners with national debt pieces). Along with the national debt, I am also interested in peak oil and the economy. I won’t always be right, I will try to be funny and hopefully I will make you think. Contact email: doom(at)thedoomletter(dot)com
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Sonic Doom Podcast #3
Good music, Rod Blagojevich, mobile devices, more on Show Me’s waitresses, a piece from the Sonic Doom vaults and so much more. If you listen, good, you will be smarter and cooler for it. If you read this and don’t listen for some reason, I hope you enjoyed the show description.
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Super Serious
Sonic Doom Podcast #4.1 – Jarred McCormick is a Jerk
Drew and Mike (mostly Drew) discuss what a jerk Jarred McCormick is really. Listen in as Drew launches into a ...
Doom Letter 22: A Letter to the Tea Partisans
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="440" caption="morons"][/caption] Dear Well-to-do Baby Boomers, I saw you at the Tea Party Convention in Nashville and you are ...
Doom Letter #21 – Stop Wasting Good Angst
It was recently brought to the periphery of my consciousness that some old fuck named Pat Robertson said some shit ...
Sonic Doom Podcast #2
An interesting interview with a sponsor, art school pirates, the worst decade ain't got shit on next year and what ...
2009 – another Doomless year
Unless you are in Greece, Zimbabwe or Somalia 2009 ended up being a pretty uneventful year on the doom front. ...
10 Questions You Should Answer
I get this sinking feeling sometimes, which I am sure comes as a big surprise given my obsession with doom. ...
Apparently, I am a crazy person
So, I took today off, and noticed that there was a panel discussion at the college on "The State of ...
The Only Recovery Will Be The Bubble Recovery
In order for the economy to rebound, some sector of the economy will have to begin growing in a meaningful ...
Americans, Welcome to the Global South
Children of the global south and the future of America? The term Global South was originated by some guilt-ridden, elitist academic ...
A list of things I need
In order: clean water food shelter basic sanitation company That is it, really. I should include tobacco as a need, since I am addicted to it. ...
The Futility of Calling It
Whatever it may be, the date of peak oil, market tops and bottoms, unemployment peaks, etc., people seem to love ...
The Fault Lines Emerge
I may or may not start regularly posting other people's writing like this, but when I read this particular piece ...
This is post #100
I just noticed when I posted my last doom letter that it was my 99th post. So since I feel ...
What we are up against, and a Story
I do menial tasks for a occupational health clinic - that means I have a job because other people get ...
Fertilizer companies are eating each other
I found this article on Bloomberg today: Agrium Inc., the largest U.S. supplier of seeds, fertilizer and pesticides, made an ...
Patriotism under my claw
Last year, I received an email from a family member (text is at the bottom of the post) that played ...
An Open Letter to Me in January 2001
Dear Mike, I hope this letter finds you well. I appreciate that you sat down for a few minutes to read ...
Karl Rove is the funniest turd blossom around
I am no longer in the habit of reading political masturbation pieces, but a friend emailed me Karl Rove's recent ...
Timothy Geithner is a Doucher
I am sure that you wouldn't expect the new Treasury Secretary to be a cool dude, but you probably also ...
More thoughts on the Obama stimulus
Last time I tore apart a right wing attack piece on Obama's stimulus. This time, Robert Kuttner of The American ...
Thoughts on the Obama stimulus plan
This is somewhat in response to this editorial from Brian Riedl at the National Review. Over the next few weeks, ...
Doom Letters
Doom Letter #21 – Stop Wasting Good Angst It was recently brought to the periphery of my consciousness that some old fuck named Pat Robertson said some shit about the earthquake in Haiti. That is the extent of my knowledge, and I refuse to investigate further because doing so would be a bigger waste of time and probably less funny that reading tweets [...]
Doom Letter #20 – If you can’t find god, find something In December 2009, I had a chance encounter with a local that was putting together a protest against a local payday loan outfit. Due to the fact that I believe that the modern day loan shark, along with “tax preparers” that juice you with fees and interest on your tax refund, is among the lowest [...]
Doom Letter #19 – Fuck Glenn Beck In an effort to better understand life and everything it can throw at you, a good place to start is at the conclusion that Glenn Beck is total bullshit. I don’t know any other way to say it. This man, with his jingo-jango books, radio and television shows, has had 2009 on lock down in [...]
Doom Letter #18 – The Truth We Don’t Know Just May Set Us Free Since I have made some changes in my personal life, I have had several surprising interactions with people that I know. The source of this surprise seems to have been the veil of politeness on their parts along with my own veils blocking out what did not fit with my world. Everyone around me had [...]
Doom Letter #17 – Everybody Wants Some There are certain times of year that I am willing to set aside my holier-than-thou attitude toward the masses and just have fun. One of those times is Halloween. I love it. People get to dress up either weirder, sluttier or scarier than they usually do, and it is social acceptable. This year for Halloween [...]
Doom Letter #16 – The Recovery of 2009 and The Bumpy Plateau Are we in the beginning of the economic recovery from the recession? If you look at economic data, it seems like things are getting less worse than they were earlier in the year. Recent GDP numbers show that economic contraction has slowed to -1.1% in the second quarter of the year from -6.4% in the [...]
Satire
Bernake attacks unemployment problem In a new policy sea change at the Federal Reserve, Chairman Ben Bernanke is hitting the road to directly address the unemployment numbers plaguing the economic recovery. “I look at a lot of economic indicators, and nearly all of them are showing a return to healthy and sustained growth” Bernanke said from the unemployment office [...]
Tens of Millions participate in Earth Hour On Saturday March 28th at 8:30 pm local time millions didn’t turn on their lights to raise awareness about global climate change. Although the participants included the predictable group of environmentally conscious wealthy elites around the globe, their impact was dwarfed by the millions and millions who participated unwittingly in the publicity stunt. From bush [...]
Guy torn between riding bike and showing off bumper sticker In that past few years, there has been an explosion in the sales of bicycle related gadgets and propaganda. White people across the country have been buying carriers, trailers, heavy duty locks and bumper stickers in what is clearly a growth sector of the economy.
While most of these accessories are utilized to transport bicycles long [...]
One last surprise appointment for the new administration In what is being called the most unprecedented and unorthodox move, the new administration has taken a bold step to assure the stability of the country’s future. After a long discussion with senior advisers President-Elect Obama has made a bold decision which will reportedly be announced right before the inauguration according to reports close to [...]
Illinois Tourism Board ponders new direction In light of the election of favorite son Barack Obama to President and the pending indictment of the second governor in a row, there are grumblings at Illinois’ state tourism authority to change course to attract new visitors. “We are looking at Illinois’ current events and the past for connections” Lee Alstap, board member of [...]
conversations with quotations Every so often, I come across an article with quotations by famous stupid people and wish I could reply to their comments. Today I will be talking to the people quoted in this article:
Warning: Misquotations or other alterations make my response easier…
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Little Book on the BIG Debt
FY 2009’s Debt Cost Thoughts Admittedly, this is a bit delayed. These numbers have been out for over a month, and I am just now getting around to digesting them. I will get into the numbers in a second, but first I want to discuss a general theme that needs to be taken into account when looking at FY 2009’s [...]
The Greenspan Commission Trap This is the second installment on what will be a long series regarding the national debt and how it affects political policies.
In 1981, President Reagan established a commission to review the fiscal soundness of social security. The chairman of the commission was Alan Greenspan, who went on to head the Federal Reserve and lay the [...]
What is the national debt? I would like for all of you to pretend with me for a minute. Say we all have excellent credit ratings and we have access to virtually boundless amounts of borrowed money. Now, the kicker of this deal is that we also don’t have to ever pay any of the money back, all we have [...]
US National Debt Maintenance Oh my god, are you excited or what? I am gonna write about interest payments on the national debt now. I can just feel the excitement from all three of you. Anyway, I never find anything online to explain how this works in a clear way. Every year, the US government gives rich people 100’s [...]
