These are the articles that broke my webservers and made my IT techs hate me
I come to understand that Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, is a day that y’all American wage-slave debt-monkeys are supposed to get out there and buy some Asian-manufactured consumer goods from a Big Box retail operation for a member of your family. This is now tradition in the United States, if you hadn’t yet received your instructions on the …
As a professional bassist, I buy a lot of musical gear. Let me highlight that, I buy as much musical gear as I possibly can, more than is reasonable or smart. As such, I patronize music stores – all kinds. I love ’em. There is no better therapy than OPG – Other People’s Guitars. One of the places I inhabit …
My friend and colleague Jeffrey Lightfoot, deputy director of the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security for the Atlantic Council has an important new piece out about why America can no longer afford diplomatic gaffes such as the scandal of NSA codebreaking Angela Merkel’s cellphone. The America of 2003 was indeed an unchecked superpower. It is hard to believe that …
This is the game: The news breaks of a horrible massacre using one of America’s 280,000,000 small arms. The scene of dozens of dead bodies in a single place breaks through the lassitude Americans have developed about the daily massacre of their fellow citizens. The gun lobby is ready. The PR campaign begins while the police are still putting bodies …
Next year I will turn forty. While, in general, the Baby Boomer culture reviled this age (“Lordy Lordy Look Who’s,” et cetera) I quite like it. One of my favorite aspects of being this age is that younger people seek my advice on their future careers. I help them decide what positive moves to make, and I also act as a …