Moguls and starlets: 100 years of Hollywood’s corrosive, systemic system Web Publication: The Guardian, by Pamela Hutchinson For the past couple weeks I’ve sat back and watched the flurry of ‘revelations’ regarding Harvey Weinstein. Is it a revelation if everyone already knew it? That’s one of the points that Hutchinson makes in her article on […]
Archives for 2017
Taking the Knee
The culture wars are here yet again. In one day, Trump trolled the NFL and probably decimated it for a decade or more to come, or maybe forever. At face value, none of this makes sense – or really, it doesn’t make sense in any way except to observe that we’re in some sort of […]
The Culture Wars Turn
If you read or watch the news, you might be led to believe that the United States is in full-on existential crisis over Trump. It is not. Even the most strident Facebook leftist outside the Antifa class have moved on from Trump. Of course the Washington Post and USA Today, to name a few, are […]
Forcefully United Thus Unconquered
I am as sad as anyone to see the historic clash of Charlottesville but instead of burnishing my own morality by heaping onto that pile, I want to address why it happened as this did not occur by accident nor by some abstract sense of license provided by Trump. Charlottesville initially hosted a spectrum of […]
Universal Basic Income Woes
The Wall Street Journal has weighed in on a Universal Basic Income (UBI) again. For those that don’t know, UBI is a government issued basic wage that would be issued in the future in the event that mass technological change or a calamity renders traditional wages impossible for masses of people. Dan Nidess, in the […]
The Trump Scorecard 8/2/17, Adios Somewhat
A regular Wednesday feature that takes a summary look at hot news issues surrounding Trump during the past week. As of this week, the Trump Scorecard will become the occasional if at all feature of hot issues surrounding Trump during the past week. For most of Trump’s Presidency, there has been a regular feed of […]