Tech
Übermensch in a Cubicle Farm - Pt 1: The Collar Color Was Always a Con
Why doesn't Tech unionize? It isn't difficult to suss out, but you have to look at it in context. This is the start of a weekly series about the "why"
Political Musing
Where I spend way too much time reading about, thinking about, and writing about politics. It is just a reflection of how fucked up American politics is at the moment. Perhaps one day I will be able to write about Guitars again. I am not holding my breath though
The Useful Fiction
The Useful Fiction Act IV: The Political 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.
The Useful Fiction
The Useful Fiction - Act III: Et tu donkey?
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
Political Musing
Bonus Post: The Podcast Class Discovers the Streets (From Their Studios)
Listening to the latest TNL this AM got my hackles up. The question of why aren't more people mobilizing really spiked my cortisol.
Political Musing
The Useful Fiction Act II: The Long Game
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
Political Musing
The Useful Fiction Act I: The Accident
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.
Political Musing
The Cronkite Moment Isn't Coming: Why This Hole Is Deeper Than the Last One
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.
Political Musing
The Longest Game: John Roberts and the Quiet Murder of Voting Rights
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.
Political Musing
PART TWO: No Offramp
Biden tried the restoration thesis. Here's what it taught us.
Political Musing
PART ONE: The Table Was Always Crooked
The infrastructure of distrust was assembled over decades. Some of it was earned. The rest was sold to us.
Political Musing
One True Church: The Republican Party and the Logic of Rome
If the Democrats are like the messy Protestant universe, the Republicans are pure Catholic hierarchy.
Political Musing
The Protestant Party: Why Democratic Dysfunction Is Actually a Feature
Next up: How the Democratic party eerily mimics the Protestants in America. Some powerful analogs to explore