Perhaps ISIS, North Korea, or even Russia could have been viewed as the greatest threat to peace this past year and at the present. ISIS is dispersed into the cities and new hidden battlegrounds around the world, defeated militarily in their declared ‘home’. In retrospect, it wasn’t as hard as it appeared on the evening […]

Trump completes his first full year in office and he has not been run out or impeached. The Russia-accusations have not stuck and Mueller, I predict will basically fail in the core aspirations of Trump’s adversaries, indictment and removal from office. In the meantime, the economy roars, questionable legislative influence is made all OK by […]

Anyone taking in news over the past month has been informed of the exponential rise in the value of crypto-currencies (cryptos). To the average person interested in growing an investment, albeit a new and volatile type, they hear the news, find an online exchange and put some money in. Especially since Thanksgiving, the mad rush […]

Here’s what happened today: Matt Lauer and Garrison Keillor were fired from their respective employers for various levels of sexual impropriety. North Korea fired a missile capable of reaching anywhere in the USA. Bitcoin briefly hit $11k. Weird huh? And these are just the top of the top headlines. What do all these headlines have […]

Northeastern Reader has been on hiatus for a while now; all unplanned but in the moment, since October 23 to be precise. This entry is about the nature of writing a blog like this. I do news, things that seem important to me in the news cycle but yet seem under-appreciated. It might be someone’s […]

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 […]