In my prior essay, ‘Shootings’, I suggested that there is a way forward that would require both polar opposite sides of the gun debate to put everything on the table. “To the left, it is all about guns. To the right, it is all keeping the guns.” No one should be holding their breath. Suggesting […]
Archives for February 2018
Shootings
Unfortunately, shootings are now so common we tune them out. There are exceptions when the body counts go higher or if there’s something unique about the shooter or the victims. The aftermath is now also so common that we tune it out. Usually it’s about the guns but I detect that now it’s just […]
TIR 2/7/18: ‘Comedy is Not Pretty, and Nowadays It Isn’t Even Funny’
Comedy Is Not Pretty, and Nowadays It Isn’t Even Funny Web Publication: The Wall Street Journal, by Joseph Epstein I’m not a big consumer of comedy. More accurately, I’m not much of a consumer of big comedy; you know, like there is big business, big this, big that, there is also big comedy, the kind […]
Dystopian Amazon
This week has felt like a fast movie trailer showing what is now, ubiquitous scenes of machine-human iterations. This has been helped along by the fact that: a. I’ve had a lot of actual dreams at night, b. I’ve watched a lot of movie trailers this week – most of them including odd loops of […]