Much Noise, To Little Effect
The value and importance of “social media” and “social networks” continue to be major topics in all sorts of discourse communities these days. Friend ...
Category: living in the Polis
Nine Years
It was a beautiful day in September, a bright blue morning of promise and sunshine. At least it was in Saint Paul, Minnesota; from all the pictures it ...
Why Can’t Daniel Read?
I have been closely following the story of Daniel Hauser for the past few days, after ignoring it for at least a week of news cycles. What I initially di...
Happy Repeal Day!
It was seventy-five years ago today that the miserable experiment that was the Eighteenth Amendment came to an end, and the shuttered brewing industr...
Election Day
It is no great secret (at least to those who have known me for many years) that I have not been a staunch believer in this theory of government called demo...