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You Loved to Hate It Until You Needed It (Spirit Air)
The Spirit Airlines obituary nobody earned the right to write
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Sunday Grab Bag: Riot Women, Star Wars, & Patrick Boyle
A mixed bag of topics, something lighter for the weekend.
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The Other Country: How the Obscenely Wealthy Live in a Different Physics
The wealthy are different from us. Most people don't realize how different. Let's dive into this topic, and try to understand people like Musk, Ellison, Zuckerberg, and even Trump are. It's a ride, strap in!
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These Fucking Guys: Substack and the Original Sin (pt 1)
My history with Substack, fleshed out, and the realization that the founders are really pieces of human filth. The first of three posts (three founders) on these fucking guys, and how a noble idea gets ratfucked in Silicon Valley.
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Glorious Garbage: A Defense of the Films Nobody Was Supposed to Take Seriously
There's a genre of film that arose in the early 1950's and evolved into several threads, but it has some common themes: Cheap to produce, frough edges, and more than a little sleaze. Delightful.
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Holy shit, this so perfectly explains GenX
I am GenX, and I often wonder why I feel different, and why younger peers seem to not get it. Today, I stumbled upon a video that nailed it 100%.
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Show Review: Deadloch
I know it is fashionable to rip on all things Amazon, but one of their original shows, Deadloch, is brilliant, if dark and borderline offensive at times.
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General and Housekeeping
A reset, and some housekeeping. The move to hosted Ghost uncovered some irregularities to work through.
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AYFKM: This is the biggest steaming pile of dung I have ever seen
The NY Times once again platforms a fucker. Get a load of this pile of horse-shit.
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Change is a'coming
A transition, a fresh start, and a look to the future
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Sunday Vibes
January 2026 is in the books, and it was the longest month that I can remember having lived through, period. We talk Tesla, David Brooks (for the last time, I swear), and how Substack is enshittifying itself. Strap in, it's gon' get bumpy!
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We have long been like this (prohibition)
It may seem like what we are experiencing is unprecedented, but it isn't. The temperance movement culminating in Prohibition is remarkably analogous to what we are experiencing today.