Bowen Craig First off, I don’t think the tech overlords are actually going to be able to create the society they want. That vision is simply too far removed from anything resembling what anyone else wants to ever fully come to pass. But, they have convinced a number of corporate types, a decent proportion of our economic … Read more
With each new G the internet people add, life gets worse. Noticeably worse. Obviously worse. I know that all these G’s have something to do with the speed of service, or at least that’s what they claim, but if it’s solely about faster internet, then why does it keep makings things the opposite of good? … Read more
I came of age in the strange era when frozen yogurt was a popular pretend-diet snack. There was a little drive-through wanna-be ice cream parlor called T.C.B.Y. right off the main drag in my hometown. Even though, knowing they couldn’t compete with Greece, it still had the gall to name itself The Country’s Best Yogurt, … Read more
Any time you hear the phrase “Real Time Crime Center,” it means that your government is stealing your privacy. It’s the police watching everywhere you go, everything you do. It’s one of the primary reasons that America is NOT a free country anymore. Period. Unless we pass some massive national privacy laws in the next … Read more
As tends to happen in autocratic countries, America is now, clearly, in a Government versus the People situation. I wish it weren’t so, but it is. The state is now, almost routinely, just killing people. Killing people in boats in the Caribbean, killing American citizens legally protesting evil, killing the few brown people whom they … Read more
Maybe our grandparents had it right. Meet a girl when you’re seventeen, marry her, spend your lives together, pumping our kids, raising them, and never knowing that there were any other possibilities for life. It’s what our grandparents did, and theirs before them, on down the line. The Sixties, specifically the birth control pill, the … Read more
I just heard someone say the phrase “The Red Queen Effect.” I didn’t know this one, but basically it’s when you have to run faster and faster just to stay in the same place. It’s a perfect descriptor for America’s economy in the 2020s. With inflation rising everywhere on everything and wages staying essentially stagnant, … Read more
Before a decade ago, America had gotten so unbelievably complacent. We all figured that, generally speaking, things were going pretty well and the problems were fixable glitches in the system or human error. My how things have changed recently. Democracy is inherently fragile, and the only reasonable conclusion is that, until recently, America actually had … Read more
As loath as I am to admit that either national political party has gotten anything right lately, the Democratic Party was right about Trump’s being a Fascist, wanna-be dictator. It’s harder and harder to deny that every day, which is one of the main reasons his supporters are ditching him faster than rats off the … Read more
Social movements are bizarre things. They sprout up, they simmer down to nothing, they flame brightly and then fade. They have their own little lives. The funniest and weirdest one of my lifetime has got to be the Black Lives Matter/All Lives Matter marches of five years ago. Fed up with young black men getting … Read more