Rather than solve problems, our society today more often seeks to monetize the misery.
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Kirk Douglas: 1916-2020
Kirk said fuck you to the Hollywood blacklist. And he could act a little.
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The Second Bill of Rights
It’s not radical to want a society that provides decent standards for everyone.
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We are the bad guys
Americans need to let go of the fiction that we, as a nation, are always in the right.
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Life During Forever Wartime
I was taught that war was bad, but sometimes necessary, and eventually it ended. The latter two concepts seem to no longer apply.
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Undercover as an Amazon driver
I once worked for UPS for about two hours. In even that short amount of time, I learned what I need to know what’s wrong with Amazon.
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The Columbus, Ohio Subway System
My city has chosen to build more and more roads, but one time it had trains and streetcars. In the mind of at least one man, it could one day have a subway. If only our leaders had such an imagination.
Read morePresidential crimes? Yawn. Where’s the “pizzazz?”
Public impeachment hearings began yesterday and the first two witnesses confirmed that the President of the United States of America used his foreign policy powers to extort personal political favors. What’s more, they testified to a previously unknown phone call in which the president personally attempted to direct the extortion scheme. That’s corrupt. It’s an […]
Read moreAn Unprecedented Abuse of Power
In the space of one news conference today, the president (a) announced he’d be using the power of his presidency to enrich him personally by holding the G7 summit at his own hotel; and (b) his Chief of Staff explicitly admitted that the president used his powers as Commander in Chief to extort a foreign […]
Read moreWere are in the midst of a dire constitutional crisis
In the past two and a half years the President has repeatedly argued that he is not subject to legal process. That he is not required to make public information which is historically made public by presidents. That he is not constrained in any real way by either the enumerated, implied, or customary powers of […]
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