Can Farming Solve Detroit’s Postindustrial Blues? Web Publication: Vice, by Mark Sundeen A better question for this article presented by Mark Sundeen might be: Can Farming Solve America’s Post-Robotized Blues? While this is essentially a feel good story about down and out Detroit with unique conditions regarding land, property values, social and economic destruction, and […]
Immigration
Legal immigration is good. Illegal immigration is bad. Open borders and immigration is not the same thing. There has never been equal access to legal immigration by all nations. American interests have always defined the terms of legal access to immigration, at least until a specific point that occurred just in the past several years. […]
Happy Troubled Birthday, Facebook
Social media will never be the same again. It is now a battleground. Social media, of which Facebook is the biggest gorilla, may be the playing field for a revolution bigger than the Trump era that is mobilizing it. To oversimplify Facebook’s stages, it started as college project to rate the hotness of girls, then […]
TIR 2/2/17: Is Steve Bannon the Second Most Powerful Man in the World?
Is Steve Bannon the Second Most Powerful Man in the World? Web Publication: Time, by David Von Dreble What might be most striking about this piece by an outlet often accused as left leaning is that you will not once see the word “Nazi” or “alt-right”. Time has taken its knocks over the years but […]
How to Manage the Virtual Civil War
America is already at war with itself. Trump crudely executes measures that he signaled during the campaign, people march, and then Facebook melts down as deep personal animosity is expressed between sides. Trump’s base quietly smiles and everyone else boils. This is difficult to watch. Some people that I had formerly characterized as gentle or […]
A Partial List of Where Trump Should Succeed and Fail and Everything In Between
This is a loose summary collection of actions, issues, and stances by the Trump administration that are hot right now. I thought this might be a good way to cover a lot of territory quickly and I plan to update this list occasionally. Where Trump’s initiatives should succeed: Cut back on use of the American […]