Just Answering Questions: Unemployed in Greenland
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To get a taste of the action, here are past Q & As. You may find the answer to your question there already. If not, they serve as an interesting record of our times:
Welcome to Leaving the Party, Pal! — December 4, 2025
PanoptiCon Artists— October 10, 2025
Mafia State Survival – August 29, 2025
Fake Feuds, Real Crises – June 13, 2025
White House vs Road House – May 12, 2025
We’re Already in the Aftermath – February 26, 2025
Trump Term Two – January 17, 2025
Just Answering (Many) Questions! – November 18, 2024
Just Answering Questions: The Flamethrower! – October 30, 2024
Just Answering Questions: The Answers! – September 30, 2024
Note: Past Q & As were so popular that I had to shut down submissions within a day. That may happen again, so let’s go — leave your questions in the comments section below!
The Cliffs of Insanity! (Missouri version.)
What did you think of Carney's speech at Davos? In some ways I thought it was a great "emperor has no clothes" moment, and in others I thought it didn't go far enough. I'd love to hear your take.
I saw a Norm Finkelstein interview in which when he was young, he asked his mother, a concentration camp survivor, how she survived and she said that people who got the bread for soup are the ones who pushed and shoved others to get to the front of the line. The basic conclusion being “Good people don’t live.”
This an ethical conundrum I think about frequently. How do you view this aspect of the moment we’re living in?