How close can we get to the edge without falling over?

The sadly predictable trend continues post-Assad...

Systems designed to predict are now positioned to decide. Probabilities harden into policies. Risk scores become verdicts. Recommendations quietly turn into mandates...

"Some of the blue side congregated near Houston, Texas, and headed southeast into the Gulf of Mexico, while the red side was seen in the Caribbean Sea." 

(OR - do the opposite if you don't like them...)

What are we doing here?

Stoics considered prudence, fortitude, temperance, and justice to be the highest virtues, on which all other virtues depend.

An estimated 60 large launch cells, approximately two-thirds of the missile capacity of a U.S. Arleigh Burke-class ... 

If the US’ attaches security strings to improving ties with India, particularly if it demands that India contain China in the South China Sea, then India will likely decline this proposal to avoid becoming the US’ proxy...

The permanent injunction includes language that bars any employee in California’s education system from ’misleading the parent.’

The great-power struggle unfolding across the Western Hemisphere isn’t just a regional contest... it’s a sign of the deeper economic fractures now spreading through the global system.

"Yes, BUT..."

"They are gobbling up all the supply available because they understand this is the end of the fiat currency experiment that started August 15 of 1971.  Fiats are collapsing..."

"...the worst is yet to come."

This isn’t over. Those were fake fat ladies you heard singing...

..."commodity-control" world continues higher as crypto carnage continues...

The company engaged in pricing tactics that harmed customers, the department said...

certain things we are not prepared to accept...