Existential Ambiguity

This century there will be new things under the sun. I must confess I take great delight in that. I am a connoisseur of ethical dilemmas, and I have a resentment of the kind of people that object to things “because these things might be unethical”. Quite often I find that these people who object […]

I am so sorry Rachel.

Rachel I had no business interfering with how you conduct your life. I had no business doing so publicly, for whatever reason or based on whatever hearsay. How you live should be none of my business, and making public statements to this effect was not my position to take. You are responsible for your own […]

Dear Ms. May,

Hello, everyone! I’ve been very busy over the last few weeks with a project, that I will explain later that will help the cause. Over the last few weeks, Christine Assange has met with Ecuadorean Officials and the President about asylum for her son. Now, it’s possible that they will make a decision on whether […]

Depressed

I am on the cusp of heading out to San Francisco next month, paid by a very nice and generous man couple for a very worthy cause – explaining why the future, communications technology should be gamified and explicitly sexualized. If this isn’t a hopeful message, I don’t know what is. But I am depressed, […]

Revolutionary Conditions

Travel advisory: Starting in 2013, in many parts of planet Earth there will be too little food and too much political unrest to make them pleasant destinations. Food is about to get very expensive everywhere: farming states in the US are living through the worst drought since the Dust Bowl; in Russia and Ukraine, heat […]

WHAT IF…

* a third party candidate protest party went on the US ballot for elections in all 50 US states. * This third party clearly and loudly proclaims “we will vote against everything, and we do NOT have a policy” * … we are the absolute protest party. * someone rich would, after putting them on […]

The Four Types of Conservatives

(source) Most conservative political figures break down into one of four broad groups. They are Reckless Addicts, Proud Zealots, Stealthy Extremists and Sober Adults. Needless to say, they do not exist in equal numbers. The first three categories can overlap, but in individual conservatives, one flavor tends to dominate. I’ll be primarily discussing congressional conservatives […]

The Elites Are Unanimous: Lower Everyone’s Wages and Standard of Living — Except They Don’t Say it Out Loud

America’s 1% are in harmony on the matter that concerns them most — who gets the biggest slice of the pie. Editor’s note: This essay is derived from Jeff Faux’s new book, The Servant Economy: ​Where America’s Elite is Sending the Middle Class , which William Greider calls a “really important book” that tells the […]