5 Feet of Fury

David ‘Spengler’ Goldman and more on new Shire News podcast

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In this fortnight’s installment of the premier pro-Western political satire podcast in the English speaking world (not the most fiercely contested category, granted, but we like to keep the flag flying) we hear about the decline of the West from Asia Times columnist “Spengler”.

He recently outed himself as actually being David Goldman, who is a harpsichordist of some note, an economist, writer, history buff and general Renaissance man. I didn’t ask him to rub his belly and pat his head at the same time, but I’m pretty confident he would be perfectly capable of doing so, while simultaneously chiding me for my sloppy comparison of the modern European Union with the Plains Indians in the 1890s. Warning – don’t even think of trying to out-clever this man.

I think my IQ shot up by ten points just by being in the same room…