Bitcoin Is a Delusion That Could Conquer the World Web Publication: The Atlantic, by Derek Thompson I’m sure most people have caught a glimpse of Bitcoin news in the past few weeks if they’re watching the news at all. There’s a lot of confusion about what is Bitcoin. This article addresses that as best as […]
Crazy Day
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 […]
Hey Still Here & What’s New
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 […]
TIR 10/23/17: Moguls and starlets: 100 years of Hollywood’s corrosive, systemic system
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 […]