Conservatives Are Slouching Toward Irrelevance
When principle and patriotism came into conflict with personal gain, every single one of these hypocrites chose to protect and enrich themselves instead of serving their nation.
2018 in a Single Tweet
There’s no point hedging. It has been a remarkably bad year with the promise of worse to come. Events have unfolded at a furious pace with almost incomprehensible absurdity, frustrating any effort to settle on a narrative or summary. Then, a gift arrived in the form of a tweet from …
Christmas in Chaos
We live in interesting times. For a few days, the pace of public events will likely (hopefully) slow. There will be opportunities to spend time with friends and family, to disconnect from the chaos. If you’re among those fortunate enough to have downtime this holiday season, I hope you’ll seize …
Autumn in Griftopia
There is a sick symmetry to Kolfage’s scam. Fourteen years ago he was literally blown to pieces in a war that was, itself, a trillion-dollar con.
The Trump Scandal B-List
What follows is comprehensive summary of the B-List, the second-tier of still-interesting and definitely dangerous Trump scandals that have mostly avoided headlines.
Max Boot Upgrades His Network
In time, we’ll likely recognize malformed social networks as a problem on par with income inequality or rural poverty. Ironically, the same social media technologies that helped create this problem probably hold our most promising solutions.
Strange Days
All I can offer is a quick recap of a few high points.
Trump Surrenders In Trade War
The Great China Trade War will play out just like the North Korea nuclear negotiations and the re-naming of NAFTA, just another trademark Trump fraud, paid for by his supporters.
Link Roundup, 11/30/2018
A special ‘Trump Scandals’ edition of the roundup.
Karl Rove’s Frankenstein
One day we might decide to confront the racism at the core of our American experiment. Until then, it remains a lever to be pulled by ambitious cynics, a lingering threat to our health and survival.