FYI: we are watching a substantial shift in media power occur right before our eyes and to most people, it isn’t considered anything other than a small aberration from big media’s business-as-usual. In a nutshell: old media is newspapers and Walter Cronkite on TV. So was/is Brian Williams, Anderson Cooper, and USA Today. All cable […]
Just Keep It Up
In the recent election, I as an Independent voted Libertarian, Johnson. Like many, I regarded Trump as unqualified and believed Clinton to be an even more disastrous choice in spite of her government experience. In the aftermath, I can point to the dissection about why she lost as example A – through infinity to explain […]
The Russians are coming
I’ve been having difficulty getting behind the outrage of the alleged hacking of the election by Russia. While any interference in an election would be bothersome, something about this story did not sit quite right with me. This is not new for something that comes out of Washington. The average you and me are hardly […]
The New Media Scramble
Apparently, news media is hot…but I knew that, that’s why I’m here. What I really find amazing is the high profile people who suddenly became interested only because of an election, as if spammy news hadn’t been showing up in anyone’s Facebook feed until a week before the election. Suddenly, the Pope is interested. Obama was […]
Robots, AI, Jobs, and the Coming Greatest Social Upheaval In Your Lifetime
Quite a few of my friends and associates have strong opinions about how conservative economics should work. Issues such as sending jobs to Mexico or instituting a $15/hour minimum wage are presently front and center. (I’m not against keeping jobs in the United States, but I do feel slightly more sympathetic toward the idea of a living […]
Clouds, Sun, Then Clouds Again
We are in for a rough ride. Just as soon as everyone exhausted themselves from the extreme animus over the elections, and what seemed like a couple days of partial sunlight, clouds gather again. Here is my take on some major news point in the past week: Regarding the debate over the Electoral College It […]