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 […]
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 7/26/17, The Swinging Door
A regular Wednesday feature that takes a summary look at hot news issues surrounding Trump during the past week As occurs in all administrations, the first major wave of exits and entrances is in progress. Spicer is out, Scaramucci is in. Sessions is being stalked and hunted by his boss and yet he remains, at […]