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useful-fiction
Closing out, the accident that created what we call the middle class is about over. Sure, politicians will pontificate, but neither party is willing to do the work to keep it going.
useful-fiction
If you think that the Democrats are the party of the middle class, you're fooling yourself. But since the 1980's they've gotten on the gravy train, feeding at the trough with the Republicans
Politics
Listening to the latest TNL this AM got my hackles up. The question of why aren't more people mobilizing really spiked my cortisol.
Politics
At the start, it wasn't a Republican or a Democrat issue, it was a plutocrat capitalist issue, and they think in multi-decade time spans. It pays to have patience
Politics
The Middle Class. It resonates, and it is almost a God given American right, but what is it really? Act I of 4 on the Middle Class.
Politics
People keep waiting for the moral shock that turns the tide. That's not how this works anymore. And there's a reason Republicans aren't losing any sleep over it.
Politics
This didn't happen last week. This took fifty years of careful, deliberate work. And the man who did it went to his office every day in a nice suit and called it jurisprudence.
Music
Favorite of the blog, Gamazda is back with another stellar transcription to the piano, this time taking on Chop Suey. Tasty!
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Enlargement, rubber suits, mediocre plots, the creatures and SciFi schlock delights, and creates angst that aligned with public concerns of the era
Front matter: As I have begun to post on most days, I have noticed that I am getting pretty consistent subscriber fatigue as indicated by the number of people unsubscribing from the main newsletter. I get that, email fatigue is real, and what was once 1 or 2 posts a
Biden tried the restoration thesis. Here's what it taught us.
Eliana Cargnelutti and Strange Kind of Women are back, and kicking arse.
The infrastructure of distrust was assembled over decades. Some of it was earned. The rest was sold to us.
If the Democrats are like the messy Protestant universe, the Republicans are pure Catholic hierarchy.
Next up: How the Democratic party eerily mimics the Protestants in America. Some powerful analogs to explore
Our politics look an awful lot like the messiness of the main branches of religion in this country, are there solid parallels? Start of a series
The Spirit Airlines obituary nobody earned the right to write
A mixed bag of topics, something lighter for the weekend.
More on the trash cinema ecosystem: The man that is the epicenter of the phenomena and the AIP studio that defined the genre
The third and final episode of this trainwreck: I look at what this passel of chucklefucks is doing to smaller writers as they shred any fidelity remaining to their original mission statement. It's all about the bucks.
